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Building at scale is hard. With legacy, fragile systems, large impact and complex front-end architecture, making big changes to an existing site or app might feel nothing short of daunting. We might have a very motivated team, but we don't always know how to get there. Enter Success at Scale, our shiny new book that might just help you to get big changes to work in your company. Jump to the details.
Rather than focusing on conventional project management steps and procedures, Success at Scale is about the ideas and processes that worked — and a few that didn’t. This book captures the challenges, frustrations, and wins through the eyes of the people who make change happen. With a strong focus on performance, capabilities, accessibility, and developer experience. Just published, print + eBook, and shipping around the world! Get a PDF sample (14.7MB), and get your book right away.
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Success at Scale is a curated collection of best-practice case studies capturing how production sites of different sizes tackle performance, accessibility, capabilities, and developer experience at scale. Case studies are from industry experts from teams at Instagram, Shopify, Netflix, eBay, Figma, Spotify, Wix, Lyft, LinkedIn, and many more. Guidance that stands the test of time.
Join Addy Osmani, your curator, as we dive into a nuanced look at several key topics that will teach you tips and tricks that may help you optimize your own sites. The book also includes short interviews with contributors on what additional lessons, challenges, and tips they have to share some time after the case studies were written.
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This book is for professional web developers and teams who want to deliver high-quality web experiences and are looking for real-world examples and insights. Every project is different, but in this book, you will recognize common challenges and frustrations faced by many teams — maybe even your own — and see how other developers conquered them. Success at Scale goes beyond beginner material to cover pragmatic approaches required to tackle these projects in the real world.
Addy Osmani is an engineering leader working on Google Chrome. He leads up Chrome’s Developer Experience organization, helping reduce the friction for developers to build great user experiences.
“Case studies based on real-world examples are a fantastic way to learn, and Addy Osmani has captured that perfectly in this book. The interviews are compelling and connect with actionable guidance you can get started with right away. Addy has a wealth of experience working with end-users, developers, and companies to understand what exactly makes for a successful web experience. As a result, Success At Scale is a treasure trove of wisdom and practical advice. Get this book if you want to build more accessible, performant, and resilient websites.”Umar Hansa, Web Developer
“This book reveals in its pages the collective wisdom of frontend engineers working on global web projects. It’s the perfect way to enhance your web applications’ potential by optimizing performance with practical tips straight from the trenches.”Luca Mezzalira, Principal Serverless Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and O’Reilly author
Success at Scale, masterfully curated by Addy Osmani, serves as an invaluable compass for the aspiring developers navigating the complex waters of web development. It’s more than a book; it’s a transmission of wisdom, guiding junior developers towards the shores of big tech companies. With its in-depth case studies and focus on performance, capabilities, accessibility, and developer experience, it prepares the next generation of tech talent to not just participate in, but to shape the future of digital innovation.”Jerome Hardaway, Engineering AI products at Microsoft
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