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Common NewRelic RUM queries for web performance optimization

16th September, 2024
Every time I have to sift through NewRelic RUM data when optimizing a website’s speed, I have to go through past notes, reports and messages. To address this pain, this is a collection of the most common queries & other information I use as a starting point for RUM data analysis.

My experience with Gatsby v5 to Next v13 frontend migration

1st Jan, 2024
Our Gatsby based statically generated frontend has been in production for 3+ years. But, after living with some major content publishing pain-points for long, we decided to move to Next.js to permanently resolve them. This post details those pain-points, how we went about Gatsby ⇒ Next.js migration and our path ahead.

Mitigating serverless cold start delays : My experiments & observations

1st Mar, 2023
This post evaluates if frequently pinging website urls is a reliable approach to mitigate cold start delays for websites hosted on Node based serverless platforms like Vercel or Netlify.

How we made Sentry work to swiftly identify production issues

30th June, 2022
At one of my clients, our Sentry setup was reporting exceptions at the rate of 100+ exceptions per hour. This post details how we steered our Sentry setup to adequately organize this deluge of issues. And, how that, in turn, helped us effectively fix the issues.

My Experiences with Optimizing CSS for React Frontends

3rd Feb, 2022
Between the start of 2021 and now, I got opportunities to optimize CSS loading for three different React websites. This post details the options I considered, the criteria I evaluated and the choices I made in process of doing so.

Zero runtime CSS-in-JS : Is this where great DX meets top-notch web performance?

19th Nov, 2021
At one of my clients, we evaluated if there’s something more performant than styled-components & still keeps the developers happy. This post details the experience and findings from the exercise.
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