Building a New React Frontend for PRI.org
Four Kitchens recently helped PRI.org launch a new React Frontend for their existing Drupal 7 project. There are a lot of engineering pieces to be excited about on this project, but as…
Performance
Launch Announcement: PRI.org
Over the past few months, Four Kitchens has worked together with the Public Radio International (PRI) team to build a robust API in PRI's Drupal 7 site, and a modern, fresh frontend…
Introducing Aerate: Frontend performance made easy
One of the cornerstones of our development process at Four Kitchens is performance. We believe speed is foundational to creating a great user experience. For this reason, we offer both a suite…
Spectre and Meltdown CPU Security Holes Performance Impact
What are Spectre and Meltdown? Have you noticed your servers or desktops are running slower than usual? Spectre and Meltdown can affect most devices we use daily. Cloud servers, desktops, laptops, and…
Making WordPress More Performant with Pantheon
We recently rebuilt and refined the design of our own website. Moving from two separate systems in Jekyll and Drupal to all content being in WordPress. We approached this overhaul in stages.…
Making a Performant Photoblog with Lightroom, Jekyll, and Gulp
In middle school, I eagerly sweet-talked my Dad, who still maintains that computers are a fad, into helping me acquire a “domain name.” It was the start of a long journey into…
SEO Best Practices: Fall 2016
Over the past year, we’ve witnessed big changes in search ranking factors. So, if you're looking to realize success with SEO as we head toward the end of 2016, it is imperative…
WebPageTest for power users
Howdy, perfers! This week is short and sweet: a duo of videos for WebPageTest power users. It was presented at Velocity 2014 by Patrick Meenan, the creator of WebPageTest.org. Let me highlight…
Test local development environments with ngrok
Local development is convenient and fast. It rids us of network latency and allows more rapid iteration while building a website. But the latency is not gone; it's simply hidden from the…
Use AdvAgg Information tab to debug or optimize CSS and JS aggregates in Drupal 7
In a previous article about using AdvAgg to inline critical path CSS, I briefly mentioned an optional step to reducing the number of bundles produced by the aggregator. I'd like to walk…