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Velocity Europe, John Allspaw, "Anticipation: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"
by OreillyMedia 2,607 views
John Allspaw, VP, Technical Operations, Etsy.com
We're all aware that failures happen in every system, and that being prepared to respond to them is paramount. But bringing resilience to your site and your organization also means developing your anticipation muscles; to explicitly work out what fears you may have about your system's limits and failure modes, and understand what you'll do when those unfortunate events happen.
This creative thinking about failure is what you use to guide your architecture, your development, your processes, your hiring, and hopefully: your business.
Putting in place contingency plans for when things might go wrong means first having an engineer's imagination for those possible failures and surprising outcomes.
I'm going to talk about walking the fine line between immobilizing paranoia and a healthy but constant sense of unease in order to build your anticipation muscles. -
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Velocity Europe, Theo Schlossnagle, "A Career in Web Operations"
by OreillyMedia 8,283 views
Theo Schlossnagle (OmniTI) takes us on a whirlwind tour through the world of web operations and try to get a handle on both why it is a challenging occupation and how to be better. Read more.
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Velocity Europe, Lightning Demos Tuesday: "Page Speed Online," Andrew Oates
by OreillyMedia 1,161 views
In this lightning demo we'll cover the newest Page Speed Online features, including waterfall analysis and critical path highlighting. We'll show you how to use Page Speed Online to analyze what's in the critical path of the page load or the first paint, and which Page Speed suggestions should be implemented in order to reduce the time spent on that critical path.
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Velocity Europe, Patrick Mueller, "Lightning Demo: weinre: a Debugger for the Mobile Web"
by OreillyMedia 648 views
Today, web developers have a large number of diagnostic tools available to help debug their web applications, starting with browser-specific debuggers like FireFox's FireBug and WebKit's Web Inspector.
Well, desktop web developers anyway. Most mobile platforms provide little in the way of diagnostic tooling for their browsers, leaving mobile web developers in a bit of a lurch.
weinre (WEb INspector REmote) is an open source tool to help bridge the web debugging tool gap in mobile. It repurposes the Web Inspector user interface to allow you to interact with a live mobile web application, from the luxury of a desktop browser window.
While not all of Web Inspector's function is available in weinre, plenty of goodies are: the Elements panel to inspect and interact with the DOM, a Console to run arbitrary JavaScript code, inspection of LocalStorage and Web SQL storage, and timing and request/response data from XHRs. -
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Velocity Europe, Robert Castley, "If You Can Keep Your Site Standing Up When All About..."
by OreillyMedia 469 views
Sure, front-end performance focus is great. But when your site surges in popularity—a foregone conclusion for us all, right?—web scale preparation can avoid a ton of grief. Think you can't test your site with hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world without weeks of sleepless nights coding open source tools? This demo from Robert Castley, Solution Engineer and Technologist at Keynote, shows you how to design, run, and analyze a complete Web load test in 5 minutes, with time to spare for tea and biscuits.
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Velocity Europe, Alois Reitbauer, "What it Means to Deliver Exceptional Performance"
by OreillyMedia 480 views
Everybody talks about fast websites, but how fast is exceptionally fast? What prevents us from being fast? How good are we in delivering exceptional performance? What do we have to do to become really fast? This fast-paced talk will answer all these questions in only five minutes. Which is the maximum time a user waits for a website to load.
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Velocity Europe, Joshua Bixby, "The Relationship Between Faster Mobile Sites and Business KPI"
by OreillyMedia 1,325 views
If you've been looking for compelling data that will help you make a case for investing in mobile performance, this session is a must-see. Joshua Bixby presents brand-new data in detailed case studies that show how real-world companies have optimized the performance of their mobile sites -- and as a result have experienced dramatic improvements in KPIs such as page views, conversions, and revenue. Read more.
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Velocity Europe, Jon Jenkins, "The Velocity of Dev Ops"
by OreillyMedia 806 views
The speed at which dev ops works is critical. It enables greater innovation and faster reaction in your business. Join Jon Jenkins as he talks about why it's important to iterate fast, deploy fast, be wrong a lot, and learn from your mistakes.
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Velocity Europe, Tim Morrow, "Betfair's Site Rebuild: Fast - We Promise"
by OreillyMedia 1,267 views
Faced with page load times that consistently exceeded 10 seconds, in June 2011 Betfair published a customer commitment to ensure greater clarity and transparency on key aspects of our service, including page performance. We set a target of 3 seconds and proceeded to rebuild the entire site with this target in mind.
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Velocity Europe, Brian Doll, "The Future of Application Performance Management"
by OreillyMedia 479 views
Web applications are being shipped faster, deployed instantly to the cloud and are catering to the ever-growing needs of a technologically connected audience.
How do you manage it all? How do you maintain high performance in your application, stay on top of your server performance and ensure your end users are getting the best service you can deliver? Find out with New Relic! -
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Velocity Europe, Jeff Veen, "Designing for Disaster"
by OreillyMedia 3,136 views
A few months ago, Jeff sat on a couch in the Typekit offices, staring out the window, and wondering if everything their company had been working towards was about to slip through their fingers. How that story ends is interesting (spoiler alert: the company is still going strong), and Jeff will share lessons on how they got through it and why they were ready for it. But beyond that, he'll look at how you, your team, your clients, or your company can cultivate a culture of making amazing things—not just on the next project, but on everything you work on for the rest of your career.
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Velocity Europe, Artur Bergman, "Full Stack Awareness"
by OreillyMedia 6,451 views
Artur Bergman VP Engineering and Operations, Wikia/Fastly
Performance and operability doesn't come from simply focusing on a single part of your application or infrastructure. They come from having a systemic view of what makes your stack work, what could bottleneck it, and what could bring it down. I'll talk about this journey from kernel to continents. -
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Velocity Europe, Arnaud Becart, "Exhaustive End-User Monitoring"
by OreillyMedia 490 views
In an increasingly complex digital environment, end-user experience must be monitored exhaustively. We can't focus only on external website performance. End-user experience must be addressed through active & passive technologies covering all B2C & B2B usages (data, voice, video), whatever the context (mobile, cloud, within or outside the firewall). ip-label will illustrate via real customer cases how they provide the largest portfolio of end-user monitoring solutions in the Application Performance Management industry.
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Velocity Europe, Laurie Denness, Lightning Demo: "FITB: Network Graphing Done Right"
by OreillyMedia 406 views
Fed up with overly complex graphing tools? Want a simple but powerful way to monitor bandwidth throughout your infrastructure? FITB (fit-bee, or "fill in the blank") is a tool designed to make polling every switch and router in your network easier, simpler to find, and with more detail than previously possible.
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Velocity Europe, Andreas Grabner, Lightning Demo: "Deep Dive Browser Diagnostics"
by OreillyMedia 315 views
Modern web applications require us to do more than just monitor network traffic. In a Web 2.0 world JavaScript execution and rendering times become increasingly important. Learn how you can use dynaTrace Ajax Edition to optimize your client side to ensure optimal performance. We will walk through a specific example to show how to find what makes your site slow and how to optimize it.
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Velocity Europe, Ivo Teel & Laurens van Hees "Taking on the Performance Challenge"
by OreillyMedia 623 views
Performance has always been something we at SPIL within Technology had thoughts about, but never really had full focus on. Within Development, the main focus has always been delivering features that the business requires from us; performance was never a mindset that we had during the creation of these features. As we have a global audience of 130 million unique visitors visiting our portals daily, we came to the conclusion that we needed to have more focus in the field of performance. We could get so much more out of our current users, by increasing their browsing experience not only from well connected broadband countries but also from countries that have more scattered performance.
We'll share with you what we had to do to get Performance on the map, challenges we faced, what we've been able to achieve so far and the lessons we've learned up until this point. Performance is now fully on our radar and we still have many things we can and will improve.
