Kara Erickson
Staff Software Engineer on the Aurora team at Chrome.
Astro View Transitions
Highlight how the Astro community embraced View Transitions when Chrome was shaping up the API and the journey towards landing first-class support for it in Astro + persistent islands.
What's New with Aurora?
Learn what the Chrome Aurora team has been up to lately and their roadmap for 2023.
Optimizing Images with the Angular Image Directive
Introducing the new Angular image directive (NgOptimizedImage) that brings built-in performance optimization techniques to images in Angular apps.
Building an effective Image Component
Images are a common source of performance bottlenecks for web applications and a key focus area for optimization. This article explains how the Aurora team at Google designed a powerful image component in Next.js that is built-in with a number of optimizations via a developer-friendly interface. This post discusses how the component was designed and the lessons we learned along the way.