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The Performance Spirit
Interesting secondary acronyms are born when you get a lot of geeks working long sleepless hours on a product that uses RUM as the primary acronym. The following are, in no particular order, a bunch of spiritual acronyms that we came up with. Feel free to add your own in the comments :)
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BRAnDY could proclaim that we’re “Beaconing Real ANalytic Data Yo!”, or it could be the unfortunate error condition when the “Browser Requested A Network Domain Yesterday!”.
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TEQuiLa points to the Heisenberg nature of web performance measurement when “Transferred Entities QUIesce LAtency”.
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Whiskey is the NATO phonetic alphabet telephony code for the letter W, so it could just stand for that one universal truth when it comes to web performance: “Waiting…”
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GIN tells us that when a user clicks on a link, they want to “Get It Now!”
Your turn… Go!
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- Caching, reloading & the specs
- The non-blocking script loader pattern
- The 3.5 second dash for attention
- LogNormal Acquired By SOASTA
- Linux TCP/IP tuning for scalability
- Some stats on Accept-Encoding
- Analysing performance data
- More on updating cached copies of boomerang
- Updating cached copies of boomerang
- Analysing network characteristics using JavaScript and the DOM, Part I