Front-end operations is attracting more attention these days as a mechanism for getting Web applications built quicker and running faster. The concept is an emerging discipline in Web application development and engineering.
Front-end ops, the subject of Sauce Labs' first-ever Front End Ops Conf this week in San Francisco, is about application testing via any number of tools and weighs heavily in real-life situations such as Flickr's move from PHP code to Node.js code.
The main goal of front-end operations is speed, as in speed of websites and speed in developing applications, says Alex Sexton, an authority on the subject and a product engineer at payments SDK provider Stripe. The entire application stack is factored into front-end operations. "The key to becoming faster is measurement. Front-end operations is about measuring, so you know how to get faster," said Sexton, who has written about front-end operations.
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