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Umbraco HQ reached out to 5 experienced developers from Umbraco Gold Partners and asked them to share their best tips for new developers. Carbon Six Digital's Alex Meyers shared his advice...    Learn to read code, before you write it You don’t need to be an expert in a programming language to decipher what the code is doing. Reading other developer’s code will help you to work effectively across different codebases and support you in writing code. There are a couple of ways you can do this, either by checking out some open source projects or reviewing the most recent project…

Umbraco HQ asked Carbon Six Digital's Alex Meyers to share his insights on how performance monitoring can be used to ensure your website performs from day one - and keeps performing.   Establishing a baseline during development Website performance is critical to all our clients at Carbon Six Digital, and we work hard to simulate and monitor real world performance during development, then we setup monitoring tools to make sure that we maintain great performance in production. During development we run Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights to establish a baseline of performance, as perceived by Google, as this is a really…