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its not about having the chops to do it well, its about not importing every feature under the sun just because you want to do intern's first marketing analytics
by RugnirViking 3y ago
its not about having the chops to do it well, its about not importing every feature under the sun just because you want to do intern's first marketing analytics campaign.
earlier in the conversation someone talked about pasting a snippet. We're talking about the "chops" to not paste a snippet that is hundreds of thousands of lines long. A snippet so long it would crash many editors.
- ehnto 3y agoTypically the person including the JS tag that then fetches the massive third party payload has no idea that's what is happening. It is very common to get multiple departments and contracted companies sticking their misc JS in since every marketing SaaS tool they use has it's own snippet. Your SEO guy wants 3 trackers, your marketing has another 5, and you sell on XYZ online market and they have affilliate trackers etc. No devs engaged at any point and the site performance isn't their responsibility. They can't do their job without their snippets so the incentives are very sticky, and the circus goes on. It's kind of like an NPM dependency tree of martech SaaS vendors...