Billy Hoffman's Blog Posts

Billy Hoffman

For over 15 years Billy has spoken internationally at conferences and written 2 books on how to build fast and secure websites. While CTO at Rigor, Billy on helped customers create strong performance cultures and understand the importance of performance to the business. Following Rigor's acquisition by Splunk, Billy focuses on improving and integrating the capabilities of Splunk's APM, RUM, and Synthetics products.

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What Are Preload Resource Hints?

Explore preload resource hints, a powerful optimization method that can significantly improve web performance, user experience and related metrics.

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What Are Preconnect Resource Hints?

Improve time-to-interactive with preconnect resource hints. This article explores preconnects, why and how to use them, and best practices for scaling.

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What Is a DNS Prefetch?

Understand DNS prefetching, one type of resource hint, including what they are, why and how to use them, and best practices for auditing and scaling.

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Integrating API Monitoring Into Your Performance Management Strategy

Successfully manage the performance of APIs. Understand the unique challenges and best practices for maximizing API monitoring within performance management.

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Monitoring APIs with Authentication

Understand the best ways to monitor APIs, a critical business practice, via direct authentication (HTTP and API keys) and ticket-based authentication.

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Synthetic Monitoring Phases & Strategies

Synthetic monitoring usually develops across three phases. These strategies help mature your business-wide application performance monitoring and management.