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Addy Osmani

Success At Scale

Success At Scale

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.

High-quality hardcover. Curated by Addy Osmani. Cover art by Espen Brunborg.

  • Published on January 2024
  • Tags: Performance, Accessibility, Front-End

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“In his illustrious engineering career, Addy Osmani is one of very few who has untangled the Gordian Knot of web development. He’s been able to confront the complex parts and condense them into a series of books, from JavaScript Patterns to Image Optimization. Success At Scale is yet another display of Addy’s acumen, sharing consequential case studies by web professionals for web professionals of all ilks to apply in their enterprise environments.”

Henri Helvetica

Developer Community Lead, Catchpoint

About The Book

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 case studies fall into four major categories that impact almost every project — Performance, Capabilities, Accessibility, and Developer Experience — and 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.

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), capturing challenges, frustrations, and wins through the eyes of the people who make change happen.

High-quality hardcover, 304 pages. Curated by Addy Osmani. Cover art by Espen Brunborg. Download a free sample (PDF, 14.7MB).

Success at Scale

Who Is This Book For?

Success at Scale 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.

We’re Trying Out Something New

In an effort to conserve resources here at Smashing, we’re trying something new with Success at Scale. The printed book is 304 pages, and we make an expanded PDF version available to everyone who purchases a print book. This accomplishes a few good things:

  • We will use less paper and materials because we are making a smaller printed book;
  • We’ll use fewer resources in general to print, ship, and store the books, leading to a smaller carbon footprint; and
  • Keeping the book at more manageable size means we can continue to offer free shipping on all Smashing orders!

Smashing Books have always been printed with materials from FSC Certified forests. We are committed to finding new ways to conserve resources while still bringing you the best possible reading experience.

Success At Scale

Print + eBook

$ 44.00

Quality hardcover. Free worldwide shipping.
100 days money-back-guarantee.

eBook

$ 19.00

DRM-free, of course. ePUB, Kindle, PDF.
Included with your Smashing Membership.

Table of Contents

Performance
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Includes examples of measuring, budgeting, optimizing, and monitoring performance, in addition to tips for building a performance culture.
Capabilities
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This section is about bridging the gap between native capabilities and the modern web. You’ll explore web apps, native apps, and progressive web applications.
Accessibility
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Accessibility makes web apps viable for diverse users, including people with temporary or permanent disabilities. Most of us will have a disability at some point in our lives, and these case studies show how we can make the web work for all of us.
Developer Experience
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This section is about building a project environment and culture that encourage support, growth, and problem-solving within teams. Strong teams build great projects!

About The Author

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.

Success At Scale

Print + eBook

$ 44.00

Quality hardcover. Free worldwide shipping.
100 days money-back-guarantee.

eBook

$ 19.00

DRM-free, of course. ePUB, Kindle, PDF.
Included with your Smashing Membership.

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