As part of my appearance at this year’s Velocity Conference NYC, I have been interviewed for the O’Reilly youtube channel and also the podcast. In it I’m covering the contents of the upcoming talk that I’m doing with Dean, such as the HTTP Archive and Google’s Big Query and how people should approach these in […]
There’s a good mixture of Performance and Mobile sessions in my list, and a couple of Operations and Culture ones too. However, there are so many conflicting sessions that are awesome, so please let me know your thoughts to help me decide! Day One I saw Tammy Everts‘ vconf session last year, Understanding the neurological […]
For the second year running I’ve been invited to speak at the fantastic web performance, optimisation, dev ops, web ops, and culture conference VelocityConf; in fact, it has become the essential training event and source of information for web professionals over the years it has been running. Last year was the Europe leg of the […]
The 3 day conference of web performance and operations & culture wrapped up recently, and having had the honour of presenting a session with my partner in crime Dean Hume called Getting The LEAST Out Of Your Images, and wandering around with the green underscored “Speaker” lanyard, here’s a brief summary of the event and […]
Finally managed to complete a run through of our session within the 40 minute time limit! Nearly.. getting the least out of your images Can’t wait for tomorrow!
An absolutely brain melting session from Ilya Grigorik , talking about the intricacies of tcp, http (0.9-1.1-2.0), the speed of light, how the internet instructure works, how mobile network browsing works, how http 1.1 doesn’t support the current use cases, and most fascinating for me: what mobile browsers actually do under the hood. Amazing how […]
Yoav Weiss did a great session on responsive images and techniques; this scared me a little as he’s covering a lot of content that could contradict the talk I’m doing later in the week! He’s mentioned some great pertinent points that I’ll reference back to. Other things he talked about: LQIP, which sounds like a […]
First session over, and my brain is already straining from Jon Cowie’s talk on how Etsy manage to make sense of a quarter of a million metric to understand anomalies in almost real time. I also managed to have a full on geek moment when I rocked up to the speaker lounge and parked myself […]
This week is an amazing one for web performance & operations and culture professionals; Monday & Tuesday is Devopsdays and Weds to Fri is Velocity Conference EU. If you’re concerned with web performance and the devops process, tooling, and culture (and if not, why the heck not?!) then get along (or get your company to […]
Hello. I’m a grumpy old web dev. I’m still wasting valuable memory on things like the deprecated img element’s lowsrc attribute (bring it back!), the hacks needed to get a website looking acceptable in both Firefox 2.5 and IE5.5 and IE on Mac, and what “cards” and “decks” meant in WAP terminology. Having this – […]