Marcus Ellis

Front End Web Developer

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Grunt without the CLI

0 Comments Grunt is great. But global modules are not. Especially when working in a team. Read more...

FeOpsConf Takeaways & Tools

0 Comments Here are my main takeaways from FeOpsConf 2014. I've also aggregated and categorized all of the tools that the various speakers mentioned. For some fairly comprehensive notes, check out my Day 1 and Day 2 notes. Read more...

FeOpsConf Notes, Day 2

0 Comments Delivering the Goods in Under 1000ms Paul Irish, Google Identify a metric to move the needle of a business need/goal. Speed Index - Lower is better. Goal should be under 1000. Total page size and Number of requests are equally important. Latency has a direct linear correlation to page load time. Latency in wireless is painful. Read more...

FeOpsConf Notes, Day 1

0 Comments Keynote Alex Sexton, Stripe What is Front End Ops? Serving web pages/apps is super hard. FeOps is the collection of things you can do to make serving them easier. The act of building performance (and dev happiness) in as a default. Read more...

Front End Ops Conf 2014

0 Comments I'll be in San Francisco next week for Front End Ops Conf 2014. It's got a really good line-up of speakers and I'm excited to go learn some new strategies and tools for testing, automation and deployment of front end applications. I'm going to try to blog my conference notes and any useful tools/links during the conference here. Read more...