Articles by Daniel James

Working from home changes everything When the world started working from home in mid-March 2020, we noticed substantial and sustained changes to our customer’s usage patterns. Our performance metrics demonstrated these drastic changes. By the end of March, load times were 20-30% slower across the board, even more anomalous than…

Lucidchart is a highly performant web application. When editing a Lucidchart document, users expect a high frame rate and a responsive UI. To ensure a great experience, we track frame rate and UI stalls. This article describes how we leverage an existing library, Zone.js, to accomplish this. Prereq: The JavaScript…