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Michele Riva
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Michele Riva

Michele Riva is a passionate and experienced Software Engineer and Google Developer Expert from Milan, Italy. During the last years, he has contributed to many open-source projects from big companies and foundations, such as Facebook and Apache, in many different programming languages and paradigms, including Haskell, Erlang, Go, and JavaScript. He has also written dozens of public domain articles on different topics (software architecture, functional programming, performance enhancements, etc.) and gave many talks at conferences and meetups. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer in the architecture team at ViacomCBS, where he is building a multi-tenant Node.js application at the heart of their websites and streaming services.
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SEO and performance – an introduction

Since the rise of the first big search engines, web developers have struggled to find a way to optimize their web applications to get better positioning in search results on Google, Bing, Yandex, DuckDuckGo, and many other popular search engines.

With the evolution of frontend web frameworks, things became even more complicated. While React, Angular, Vue (and many others) provide a fantastic way to deal with complex UIs, they make things a bit harder for web spiders, the bots responsible for indexing websites into a search engine. They need to execute JavaScript, wait for the UI to render, and eventually index highly dynamic web pages. In addition, many contents would be initially hidden, as they get generated dynamically by JavaScript on the frontend directly following user interaction.

That caused many problems and made countless developers regret the good old days when the web was essentially server side rendered, where JavaScript...

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Michele Riva

Michele Riva is a passionate and experienced Software Engineer and Google Developer Expert from Milan, Italy. During the last years, he has contributed to many open-source projects from big companies and foundations, such as Facebook and Apache, in many different programming languages and paradigms, including Haskell, Erlang, Go, and JavaScript. He has also written dozens of public domain articles on different topics (software architecture, functional programming, performance enhancements, etc.) and gave many talks at conferences and meetups. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer in the architecture team at ViacomCBS, where he is building a multi-tenant Node.js application at the heart of their websites and streaming services.
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