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A friend recommended this website to me. So I thought I'd check it out and make my first post!

I am passionate about design, art, photography, web development, and love problem-solving with a team to find solutions. Nine years in the retail, hospitality, and customer service industry along with leadership experience has taught me invaluable lessons and skills. It taught me hard work, grit, resilience, client retention, customer satisfaction, teamwork, leading and inspiring others with empathy an active listening. What I enjoyed most about being in this industry was being able to work and connect with diverse people from different backgrounds. I treat customers and my team as if they’re my best friend, which in turn has made me so many friends and connections.

My coding journey started as a teenager when MySpace and Tumblr was at it's peak. I wondered how layouts worked and spent my time figuring out what all of this 'stuff' was. Tinkering around and learning how everything worked was fun for me, and before I knew it, I figured out what different things did. I didn't continue figuring more things out as MySpace and Tumblr phased out of popularity. I figured out the skills I was learning at my teenager translated into jobs, so I hopped right into a bootcamp and pivoted careers. Here I am now! I hope to find an entry-level/associate Software Engineering role ASAP so that I can get to work!

w/ Gratitude
Oliver Martin | Software Engineer
THEURBANSPECTACLE.COM

How to reduce TTFB

In the past few years in the web dev world, we’ve seen a significant push towards rendering our websites on the server. Doing so is better for SEO and performs better on low-powered devices, but one thing we had to sacrifice is TTFB.

In this article, we’ll see how we can identify what makes our TTFB high so we can fix it.