3 ms·
what do people think is the best approach to incentivise lean web design? The bloat of the modern web is absolutely ridiculous but it seems to be the inevitable
by morpheos137 5y ago
what do people think is the best approach to incentivise lean web design? The bloat of the modern web is absolutely ridiculous but it seems to be the inevitable result of piling abstraction on top of abstraction so that you end up with a multimegabyte news article due to keeping up with the latest fad framework.
- tomaskafka 5y agoWhat every large company does - make an employee VPN (for laptops and phones) that simulated poor internet connection (slow, packet loss, lags), to let the developers feel the pain.
- marcosdumay 5y agoThe joke is on them (well, yeah, but figuratively too). The VPN is only slow for external sites that the developers can not fix, while internal ones load at the full speed the middlebox can handle. Companies are grooming the developers so that they will never have difficulty hiring people that can diagnose a broken firewall, but they are not getting faster web pages out of the deal.
- MattGaiser 5y agoI think you would need to prove that it matters in terms of increasing revenue and is more valuable than other things you can spend your engineers on. I would be surprised if this discussion has not taken place at Airbnb and they apparently decided it did not matter.
- nicbou 5y agoInclude slow machines in your QA process,just like you include certain operating systems and browsers. You might also want to know how many of your users are actually on slow connections,and how important they are to you.