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WebPageTest By Catchpoint Launches Free Web Performance Expert Course and Certification

WebPageTest by Catchpoint announced the acquisition and launch of a new course, Lighting Fast Web Performance by Scott Jehl.

As part of WebPageTest’s ongoing mission to elevate performance-first websites, this new course is the first in a series that will teach developers of any skill level everything needed to build high-performance websites and deliver superior user experiences.

“This new course helps companies and developers to create and adopt a performance-first mindset and gives them the know-how to execute,” said Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint. “It dives deep into the methods on how to apply critical thinking in approaching more complex optimization problems.”

With over 3 hours of content, this course teaches the fundamentals of WebPerf, including conducting site audits, identifying opportunities, staging and testing optimizations, and implementing best practices into daily workflows for development, QA, and SEO. Developers will gain experience with WebPageTest, the gold-standard performance tool that is widely respected and utilized in the performance development community for over a decade.

Participants in the course will have access to the Starter pack on WebPageTest with free monthly tests, to practice what they learn easily and make sites quicker, more usable, and more resilient. The course is led by Scott Jehl, Senior Experience Engineer at Catchpoint, a widely recognized leader in the Web Performance space.

The Lightning-Fast Web Performance course is 100% free for all registered WebPageTest users.

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WebPageTest By Catchpoint Launches Free Web Performance Expert Course and Certification

WebPageTest by Catchpoint announced the acquisition and launch of a new course, Lighting Fast Web Performance by Scott Jehl.

As part of WebPageTest’s ongoing mission to elevate performance-first websites, this new course is the first in a series that will teach developers of any skill level everything needed to build high-performance websites and deliver superior user experiences.

“This new course helps companies and developers to create and adopt a performance-first mindset and gives them the know-how to execute,” said Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint. “It dives deep into the methods on how to apply critical thinking in approaching more complex optimization problems.”

With over 3 hours of content, this course teaches the fundamentals of WebPerf, including conducting site audits, identifying opportunities, staging and testing optimizations, and implementing best practices into daily workflows for development, QA, and SEO. Developers will gain experience with WebPageTest, the gold-standard performance tool that is widely respected and utilized in the performance development community for over a decade.

Participants in the course will have access to the Starter pack on WebPageTest with free monthly tests, to practice what they learn easily and make sites quicker, more usable, and more resilient. The course is led by Scott Jehl, Senior Experience Engineer at Catchpoint, a widely recognized leader in the Web Performance space.

The Lightning-Fast Web Performance course is 100% free for all registered WebPageTest users.

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As businesses increasingly rely on high-performance applications to deliver seamless user experiences, the demand for fast, reliable, and scalable data storage systems has never been greater. Redis — an open-source, in-memory data structure store — has emerged as a popular choice for use cases ranging from caching to real-time analytics. But with great performance comes the need for vigilant monitoring ...

Kubernetes was not initially designed with AI's vast resource variability in mind, and the rapid rise of AI has exposed Kubernetes limitations, particularly when it comes to cost and resource efficiency. Indeed, AI workloads differ from traditional applications in that they require a staggering amount and variety of compute resources, and their consumption is far less consistent than traditional workloads ... Considering the speed of AI innovation, teams cannot afford to be bogged down by these constant infrastructure concerns. A solution is needed ...

AI is the catalyst for significant investment in data teams as enterprises require higher-quality data to power their AI applications, according to the State of Analytics Engineering Report from dbt Labs ...

Misaligned architecture can lead to business consequences, with 93% of respondents reporting negative outcomes such as service disruptions, high operational costs and security challenges ...

A Gartner analyst recently suggested that GenAI tools could create 25% time savings for network operational teams. Where might these time savings come from? How are GenAI tools helping NetOps teams today, and what other tasks might they take on in the future as models continue improving? In general, these savings come from automating or streamlining manual NetOps tasks ...

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A large majority (86%) of data management and AI decision makers cite protecting data privacy as a top concern, with 76% of respondents citing ROI on data privacy and AI initiatives across their organization, according to a new Harris Poll from Collibra ...

According to Gartner, Inc. the following six trends will shape the future of cloud over the next four years, ultimately resulting in new ways of working that are digital in nature and transformative in impact ...

2020 was the equivalent of a wedding with a top-shelf open bar. As businesses scrambled to adjust to remote work, digital transformation accelerated at breakneck speed. New software categories emerged overnight. Tech stacks ballooned with all sorts of SaaS apps solving ALL the problems — often with little oversight or long-term integration planning, and yes frequently a lot of duplicated functionality ... But now the music's faded. The lights are on. Everyone from the CIO to the CFO is checking the bill. Welcome to the Great SaaS Hangover ...

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