One approach to performance is to accelerate the network; another is to optimize the application by reducing how much the network is needed and pushing content out towards the user. In this session, Hooman Beheshti reveals how technologies like Front-End Optimization and Content Delivery Networks work alongside the rest of the cloud computing stack to improve performance and increase user productivity.
How slow load times hurt UX (and what you can do about it) [FluentConf 2016]Tammy Everts
There are compelling arguments why companies need to care about serving faster pages to their users. Countless studies have found an irrefutable connection between load times and key performance indicators, ranging from page views to revenue.
In this talk, I outlined research-based reasons why you need to care about web performance and what you can do to make your pages faster. Your takeaways (I hope) will be an understanding of why improving load times is critical to delivering better online experiences and how to identify and fix common performance leeches on your pages.
Topics include:
- User expectations
- The impact of load time on business metrics (revenue, conversions, bounce rate, and user satisfaction/retention)
- The insidiousness of “page bloat”
- 19 things you can do to deliver a faster user experience
Velocity 2010: Performance Impact, Part Two: More Findings from the Front Lin...Strangeloop
Last year at Velocity, Strangeloop's VP Product, Hooman Beheshti, presented the findings from phase one of Strangeloop’s long-term research into the relationship between web performance and business benefits. The results were also published in Watching Websites. Since then, we’ve received a barrage of questions from the web performance community, which fueled phase two of our study. In this presentation, Strangeloop president Joshua Bixby offers our most recent findings.
Some of the community’s questions were:
* Who were the clients?
* How fast were the pages?
* What acceleration techniques were implemented?
* What happened to the key page components (such as JS size, payload and roundtrips) of the websites?
* How did changing key variables (page load time, payload, number of roundtrips, etc.) affect the outcome?
We’ve been collecting and analyzing data to help us answer these questions, as well as some new ones we’ve thought up along the way. Join us as we present our findings, and help us consider what areas deserve further study.
Smashing Meets for Speed: Why web performance matters – especially nowTammy Everts
We talk a lot about web performance, but a lot of these conversations come from a purely technical perspective. Most people have a gut feeling that performance is important, but exactly what influence it has on your users and your business is often overlooked. In this talk I shared at Smashing Conference's 'Meets for Speed', I share why our need for fast online experiences is hard-wired, and how slow performance hurts your users and your business.
2020 Chrome Dev Summit: Web Performance 101Tammy Everts
What do we mean when we talk about "web performance"? Why should you care about it? How can measure it? How do you get other people in your organization to care? In this workshop at the 2020 Chrome Dev Summit, I covered these questions – including an overview of the history of performance metrics, up to Core Web Vitals.
How I learned to stop worrying and love UX metricsTammy Everts
This talk at the 2018 performance.now() conference (Amsterdam) walks through a brief history of UX and web performance research, highlighting landmark studies that helped connect the dots between performance and user experience. I also demystify the current state of performance metrics and help you understand what you need to focus on for your site and your users.
How to create a performance-first culture [2018 WebPerfDays Amsterdam]Tammy Everts
If you've ever wondered why all your performance efforts feel like such a painful uphill slog within your organization, then this talk is for you. Creating a strong web performance culture means getting people to care, showing them what they can do to help, and giving them positive reinforcement when you get results. Here are some proven tips and best practices to help you create a healthy, happy, celebratory performance culture.
How slow load times hurt UX (and what you can do about it) [FluentConf 2016]Tammy Everts
There are compelling arguments why companies need to care about serving faster pages to their users. Countless studies have found an irrefutable connection between load times and key performance indicators, ranging from page views to revenue.
In this talk, I outlined research-based reasons why you need to care about web performance and what you can do to make your pages faster. Your takeaways (I hope) will be an understanding of why improving load times is critical to delivering better online experiences and how to identify and fix common performance leeches on your pages.
Topics include:
- User expectations
- The impact of load time on business metrics (revenue, conversions, bounce rate, and user satisfaction/retention)
- The insidiousness of “page bloat”
- 19 things you can do to deliver a faster user experience
Velocity 2010: Performance Impact, Part Two: More Findings from the Front Lin...Strangeloop
Last year at Velocity, Strangeloop's VP Product, Hooman Beheshti, presented the findings from phase one of Strangeloop’s long-term research into the relationship between web performance and business benefits. The results were also published in Watching Websites. Since then, we’ve received a barrage of questions from the web performance community, which fueled phase two of our study. In this presentation, Strangeloop president Joshua Bixby offers our most recent findings.
Some of the community’s questions were:
* Who were the clients?
* How fast were the pages?
* What acceleration techniques were implemented?
* What happened to the key page components (such as JS size, payload and roundtrips) of the websites?
* How did changing key variables (page load time, payload, number of roundtrips, etc.) affect the outcome?
We’ve been collecting and analyzing data to help us answer these questions, as well as some new ones we’ve thought up along the way. Join us as we present our findings, and help us consider what areas deserve further study.
Smashing Meets for Speed: Why web performance matters – especially nowTammy Everts
We talk a lot about web performance, but a lot of these conversations come from a purely technical perspective. Most people have a gut feeling that performance is important, but exactly what influence it has on your users and your business is often overlooked. In this talk I shared at Smashing Conference's 'Meets for Speed', I share why our need for fast online experiences is hard-wired, and how slow performance hurts your users and your business.
2020 Chrome Dev Summit: Web Performance 101Tammy Everts
What do we mean when we talk about "web performance"? Why should you care about it? How can measure it? How do you get other people in your organization to care? In this workshop at the 2020 Chrome Dev Summit, I covered these questions – including an overview of the history of performance metrics, up to Core Web Vitals.
How I learned to stop worrying and love UX metricsTammy Everts
This talk at the 2018 performance.now() conference (Amsterdam) walks through a brief history of UX and web performance research, highlighting landmark studies that helped connect the dots between performance and user experience. I also demystify the current state of performance metrics and help you understand what you need to focus on for your site and your users.
How to create a performance-first culture [2018 WebPerfDays Amsterdam]Tammy Everts
If you've ever wondered why all your performance efforts feel like such a painful uphill slog within your organization, then this talk is for you. Creating a strong web performance culture means getting people to care, showing them what they can do to help, and giving them positive reinforcement when you get results. Here are some proven tips and best practices to help you create a healthy, happy, celebratory performance culture.
2021 Chrome Dev Summit: Web Performance 101Tammy Everts
What do we mean when we talk about "web performance"? Why should you care about it? How can measure it? How do you get other people in your organization to care? In this workshop at the 2021 Chrome Dev Summit, I covered these questions – including an overview of the history of performance metrics, up to Core Web Vitals.
Performance Is About People, Not Metrics [2017 Web Directions Summit] Tammy Everts
If you want your site to succeed, you need to deliver a consistently fast user experience. But how do you quantify "fast"? And how do you track speed across millions and billions of user visits?
When we think about measuring web performance, it’s easy to fall into an abyss of metrics. TCP connection, TTFB, start render, PageSpeed and YSlow scores. Which ones should we care about? In this talk, I share my 10-year quest in search of a unicorn metric for measuring user engagement and web performance.
How to fix the design issues that matter on the pages that matter [2016 Smash...Tammy Everts
How do you know what consumers expect from your site? Every shopper is different and every visit is different. Industry stats tell only part of the story. You need to crack the hood and analyze your own real user data. This talk covers how and why to gather real user data and connect the dots between the metrics that matter most -- IT, UX, and business -- in order to create better shopper experiences and improve your business.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Performance Teams [PerfNow 2019]Tammy Everts
Over the past year, I've talked with companies of all types – retail, media, travel, software, and more – and all sizes – from SMBs to huge enterprises. I was inspired to see how different organizations approach creating a robust performance culture.
The one thing they all have in common is agreeing that performance culture is the single greatest success variable. Having a strong culture of performance can help:
• Prevent regression
• Reduce gatekeeping
• Increase investment from the business
In this talk at the performance.now() conference in Amsterdam, I shared tips and best practices gleaned from scores of conversations with people and companies who are leading the way down the path to performance.
Presented at Web Directions Code, Melbourne
If you have a website—particularly one that generates revenue for your organization—you need a Progressive Web App. So where do you begin? How do you decide which features of a Progressive Web App make sense for your users? What tools can make the process easier (or harder)? In this practical session, Jason will guide you through the key design decisions you’ll need to make about your Progressive Web App and how those decisions impact the scope of your project. He'll also teach you how to avoid common pitfalls and help you take full advantage of Progressive Web App technology.
The hunt for the unicorn performance metric [DeltaV London 2018]Tammy Everts
This talk walks through a brief history of UX and web performance research, highlighting landmark studies that helped connect the dots between performance and user experience. I also demystify the current state of performance metrics and help you understand what you need to focus on for your site and your users.
Continuous Performance Testing and Monitoring in Agile DevelopmentNeotys
Continuous Performance testing and monitoring is the best way to ensure application performance with quicker development cycles. Balancing Agile and DevOps velocity with the need for ongoing performance testing and monitoring is essential. We call it Continuous Performance Validation.
Raiders of the Fast Start: Frontend Performance Archaeology - Performance.now...Katie Sylor-Miller
Raiders of the Fast Start: Frontend Performance Archeology
There are a lot of books, articles, and online tutorials out there with fantastic advice on how to make your websites performant. It all seems easy in theory, but applying best practices to real-world code is anything but straightforward. Diagnosing and fixing frontend performance issues on a large legacy codebase is like being an archaeologist excavating the remains of a lost civilization. You don’t know what you will find until you start digging!
Pick up your trowels and come along with Etsy’s Frontend Systems team as we become archaeologists digging into frontend performance on our large, legacy mobile codebase. I’ll share real-life lessons you can use to guide your own excavations into legacy code:
What tools and metrics we used to diagnose issues and track progress.
How we went beyond server-driven best practices to focus on the client.
Which fixes successfully increased conversion, and which didn’t.
Our work, like all good archaeology, went beyond artifacts and unearthed new insights into our culture. We at Etsy pride ourselves on our culture of performance, but, like all cultures, it needs to adapt and reinvent itself to account for changes to the landscape. Based on what we’ve learned, we are making the case for a new, organization-wide, frontend-focused performance culture that will solve the problems we face today.
“If Tetris has taught me anything, it’s that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear” is a common quote and it seems we’re living this to its full extend as web developers. We fail to celebrate the successes we have and the tools that are at our disposal but we’re never short of finding reasons why things don’t work. We also tend to pile on technology on technology to solve problems that may actually not exist and thus clog up the web. In this talk Chris Heilmann wants to remind us what we achieved and how we should celebrate it and how we should stop trying to solve problems that are simply beyond our control.
Web Performance in the Age of HTTP2 - Topconf Tallinn 2016 - Holger BartelHolger Bartel
Web performance optimisation has been gaining ground and is slowly getting more of its deserved recognition.
Nevertheless, much of our time on the web is still used up by waiting. To decrease our wait time and improve the web’s overall performance, this integral part of user experience needs further promotion.
Waiting and the perception of time itself, is reason enough to explore some of the psychological effects time has on our users, too.
Passing time also plays a big role in the evolution of technologies. Through the history of HTTP we have reached the latest version as HTTP/2, which will turn some of our existing web performance best practices on their head and into the new anti-patterns of today.
Presented by Tiffany Broadbent and Justin Schoonmaker from the Office of Creative Services at the College of William & Mary. Exploring the motivation, design, implementation, and future plans for the responsive design of the W&M homepage.
A recording of this webinar along with the subsequent Q&A session can be found on Hannon Hill's site: http://hannonhill.com/products/demos/william-and-mary-responsive-design-webinar-video.html
Using Responsive Web Design To Make Your Web Work EverywhereChris Love
Devices are as unique as their users. Detecting the end user’s platform is a fruitless expenditure that often leads to wrong assumptions. Maintaining multiple web applications for different platforms is not cost effective and stressful. Responsive web design is a way to design your applications for devices of all shapes, sizes and resolutions. This session covers a definition, examples and how to execute a proper mobile first responsive design. We will also cover how to use responsive images to ensure your application performs well.
80% of the time it takes for a web page to load is on the client side.
Using all the tips in this presentation should cut 25% to 50% off the load time of optimized page requests.
Drupal (6 or 7) can be used to, fairly easily, implement a whole bunch of these “front-end performance” upgrades, and knock a ton of errors off of the Yahoo! and Google speed-checker tools validation checklists.Get firebug first.
2021 Chrome Dev Summit: Web Performance 101Tammy Everts
What do we mean when we talk about "web performance"? Why should you care about it? How can measure it? How do you get other people in your organization to care? In this workshop at the 2021 Chrome Dev Summit, I covered these questions – including an overview of the history of performance metrics, up to Core Web Vitals.
Performance Is About People, Not Metrics [2017 Web Directions Summit] Tammy Everts
If you want your site to succeed, you need to deliver a consistently fast user experience. But how do you quantify "fast"? And how do you track speed across millions and billions of user visits?
When we think about measuring web performance, it’s easy to fall into an abyss of metrics. TCP connection, TTFB, start render, PageSpeed and YSlow scores. Which ones should we care about? In this talk, I share my 10-year quest in search of a unicorn metric for measuring user engagement and web performance.
How to fix the design issues that matter on the pages that matter [2016 Smash...Tammy Everts
How do you know what consumers expect from your site? Every shopper is different and every visit is different. Industry stats tell only part of the story. You need to crack the hood and analyze your own real user data. This talk covers how and why to gather real user data and connect the dots between the metrics that matter most -- IT, UX, and business -- in order to create better shopper experiences and improve your business.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Performance Teams [PerfNow 2019]Tammy Everts
Over the past year, I've talked with companies of all types – retail, media, travel, software, and more – and all sizes – from SMBs to huge enterprises. I was inspired to see how different organizations approach creating a robust performance culture.
The one thing they all have in common is agreeing that performance culture is the single greatest success variable. Having a strong culture of performance can help:
• Prevent regression
• Reduce gatekeeping
• Increase investment from the business
In this talk at the performance.now() conference in Amsterdam, I shared tips and best practices gleaned from scores of conversations with people and companies who are leading the way down the path to performance.
Presented at Web Directions Code, Melbourne
If you have a website—particularly one that generates revenue for your organization—you need a Progressive Web App. So where do you begin? How do you decide which features of a Progressive Web App make sense for your users? What tools can make the process easier (or harder)? In this practical session, Jason will guide you through the key design decisions you’ll need to make about your Progressive Web App and how those decisions impact the scope of your project. He'll also teach you how to avoid common pitfalls and help you take full advantage of Progressive Web App technology.
The hunt for the unicorn performance metric [DeltaV London 2018]Tammy Everts
This talk walks through a brief history of UX and web performance research, highlighting landmark studies that helped connect the dots between performance and user experience. I also demystify the current state of performance metrics and help you understand what you need to focus on for your site and your users.
Continuous Performance Testing and Monitoring in Agile DevelopmentNeotys
Continuous Performance testing and monitoring is the best way to ensure application performance with quicker development cycles. Balancing Agile and DevOps velocity with the need for ongoing performance testing and monitoring is essential. We call it Continuous Performance Validation.
Raiders of the Fast Start: Frontend Performance Archaeology - Performance.now...Katie Sylor-Miller
Raiders of the Fast Start: Frontend Performance Archeology
There are a lot of books, articles, and online tutorials out there with fantastic advice on how to make your websites performant. It all seems easy in theory, but applying best practices to real-world code is anything but straightforward. Diagnosing and fixing frontend performance issues on a large legacy codebase is like being an archaeologist excavating the remains of a lost civilization. You don’t know what you will find until you start digging!
Pick up your trowels and come along with Etsy’s Frontend Systems team as we become archaeologists digging into frontend performance on our large, legacy mobile codebase. I’ll share real-life lessons you can use to guide your own excavations into legacy code:
What tools and metrics we used to diagnose issues and track progress.
How we went beyond server-driven best practices to focus on the client.
Which fixes successfully increased conversion, and which didn’t.
Our work, like all good archaeology, went beyond artifacts and unearthed new insights into our culture. We at Etsy pride ourselves on our culture of performance, but, like all cultures, it needs to adapt and reinvent itself to account for changes to the landscape. Based on what we’ve learned, we are making the case for a new, organization-wide, frontend-focused performance culture that will solve the problems we face today.
“If Tetris has taught me anything, it’s that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear” is a common quote and it seems we’re living this to its full extend as web developers. We fail to celebrate the successes we have and the tools that are at our disposal but we’re never short of finding reasons why things don’t work. We also tend to pile on technology on technology to solve problems that may actually not exist and thus clog up the web. In this talk Chris Heilmann wants to remind us what we achieved and how we should celebrate it and how we should stop trying to solve problems that are simply beyond our control.
Web Performance in the Age of HTTP2 - Topconf Tallinn 2016 - Holger BartelHolger Bartel
Web performance optimisation has been gaining ground and is slowly getting more of its deserved recognition.
Nevertheless, much of our time on the web is still used up by waiting. To decrease our wait time and improve the web’s overall performance, this integral part of user experience needs further promotion.
Waiting and the perception of time itself, is reason enough to explore some of the psychological effects time has on our users, too.
Passing time also plays a big role in the evolution of technologies. Through the history of HTTP we have reached the latest version as HTTP/2, which will turn some of our existing web performance best practices on their head and into the new anti-patterns of today.
Presented by Tiffany Broadbent and Justin Schoonmaker from the Office of Creative Services at the College of William & Mary. Exploring the motivation, design, implementation, and future plans for the responsive design of the W&M homepage.
A recording of this webinar along with the subsequent Q&A session can be found on Hannon Hill's site: http://hannonhill.com/products/demos/william-and-mary-responsive-design-webinar-video.html
Using Responsive Web Design To Make Your Web Work EverywhereChris Love
Devices are as unique as their users. Detecting the end user’s platform is a fruitless expenditure that often leads to wrong assumptions. Maintaining multiple web applications for different platforms is not cost effective and stressful. Responsive web design is a way to design your applications for devices of all shapes, sizes and resolutions. This session covers a definition, examples and how to execute a proper mobile first responsive design. We will also cover how to use responsive images to ensure your application performs well.
80% of the time it takes for a web page to load is on the client side.
Using all the tips in this presentation should cut 25% to 50% off the load time of optimized page requests.
Drupal (6 or 7) can be used to, fairly easily, implement a whole bunch of these “front-end performance” upgrades, and knock a ton of errors off of the Yahoo! and Google speed-checker tools validation checklists.Get firebug first.
Front-End Performance Optimization in WordPressdrywallbmb
Data from major Internet providers like Google, Amazon and Akamai has shown that how fast a website loads significantly affects user behavior. And because users don’t like slow sites, Google uses load time as a factor in computing PageRank results. In short: It pays to be fast.
There are a lot of factors that can affect your site’s performance. While some are dependent on your hosting environment, there are plenty of factors beyond server/internet speed (and the obvious sheer number of bits to be loaded) that affect your page load time, such as HTTP connections, DNS lookups, and asset load sequencing.
If you’re a front-end developer and you’re serious about building websites that load as fast as possible, come learn about techniques (such as non-blocking Javascript) you can use in your markup and themes — whether on WordPress or some other system — to help things load as quickly as possible. We’ll also review tools you can use to assess whether your site is doing all it can to load quickly.
Marrying CDNs with Front-End Optimization Strangeloop
Slide deck from Strangeloop president Joshua Bixby's presentation at the 2012 Content Delivery Summit.
Many content owners are already using a content delivery network (CDN) to cache content closer to their visitors, but CDNs don't reduce the number of requests required to render each page, and they have no impact on browser efficiency. Front-end optimization (FEO) picks up where CDNs leave off, transforming the content itself so that it renders as quickly as possible in the browser.
In this presentation, attendees will see real-world examples of how leading e-commerce sites have combined CDN and FEO forces to reach new levels of performance for content-rich pages. Get real numbers on how quickly content-rich sites loaded pre-acceleration, then with just a CDN, then with a combined CDN/FEO solution.
Cloud Performance: Guide to Tackling Cloud Latency [Cloud Connect - Chicago 2...Strangeloop
Performance matters. And in the cloud, performance matters more than ever—layers of complexity and third-party, shared environments separate users from applications. Services are elastic, which means you can have any SLA you want, as long as you're willing to design it yourself. And you can have a fast application, too—if you're willing to deal with the bill at the end of the month.
So how should you think about cloud performance? In this in-depth workshop on the performance of cloud computing, three cloud computing and Internet performance experts—Steve Riley (Riverbed, Amazon), Hooman Beheshti (Strangeloop, Radware) and Alistair Croll (Coradiant, CloudOps)—take you on a tour of the challenges on-demand computing poses to reliable, fast user experiences.
What you'll learn:
- The new models of delay, capacity, and uptime that on-demand computing requires
- What and how to measure when it comes to performance, and how to think about metrics
- Where delay happens across the cloud environment
- How shared computing and back-end contention affect user experience
- What the WAN and the Application Delivery Network mean in a cloudy compute model
- How to spread load and optimize application front-ends to speed up applications
Velocity 2012: The 90-Minute Mobile Optimization Life CycleStrangeloop
Strangeloop VP Technology Hooman Beheshti demonstrates – in real time – the impact of advanced mobile optimization techniques on another unsuspecting website.
Over the course of the workshop, witness the mobile optimization life cycle, from start to finish:
- Taking the “Before” shot: Choosing a guinea pig site and benchmarking its current performance, focusing on load time, start render time and round trips.
- Iterating through core best practices, including: Keep-Alive, Compression, Far Future Expiry, and Use a CDN.
- Applying a set of advanced, automated, mobile-specific FEO techniques.
- Taking the “After” shot: Analyzing results using different browsers.
Front End Optimization [Cloud Connect 2012]Strangeloop
From Hooman's presentation at the Cloud Performance Summit at Cloud Connect 2012:
Accelerating applications can mean different things to different people. In web applications, performance is impacted by everything from infrastructure to code to back-end processing to browser capabilities. This can get even more complicated in cloud environments. In this discussion, we'll focus on the issues surrounding the "front-end" performance of the application which includes all interactions between the browser and the app after the dynamic content (the base HTML) has been generated and delivered to the browser. We will discuss the major front-end performance pain points and some strategies for mitigating them (including hidden complications and gotchas), ultimately leading to a better perceived user experience.
O'Reilly webcast: Joshua Bixby on Mobile Performance Trends and PredictionsStrangeloop
Slides from Strangeloop president Joshua Bixby's O'Reilly webcast:
At Velocity EU in October 2012, Strangeloop president Joshua Bixby will unveil findings from the first comprehensive study ever conducted of mobile performance over 3G networks. In this webcast, Joshua talks about why measuring 3G performance is important, and what kind of evolution we can expect to see from mobile networks, browsers, site development, and performance best practices in 2013.
2012 Annual State of the Union for Mobile Ecommerce Performance [Velocity EU]Strangeloop
On October 3 at Velocity EU, Strangeloop president Joshua Bixby unveiled the findings from the first study ever conducted of mobile performance over cellular networks.
In July and September 2012, Strangeloop conducted an industry first: a mobile performance survey of top ecommerce sites. The "2012 State of Mobile Ecommerce Performance" documents how Strangeloop tested top Alexa-ranked retail sites on a variety of mobile devices to find answers to questions like:
- How long does the median site take to load in mobile browsers?
- Which sites were fastest?
- Do some mobile OS/browsers/devices offer a consistently faster user experience than others?
- How much faster are pages served over LTE than over 3G?
- How do all of these findings compare to similar research conducted for desktop performance, published in Strangeloop’s annual Page Speed and Website Performance State of the Union reports?
The report is available for download at http://www.strangeloopnetworks.com/.
The mix of ever-smarter mobile devices and the constant connectivity of wireless networks have changed the way users access applications—and the way we develop and test them. Deployed applications deliver different content and functionality depending on whether the user is accessing them via a browser, smartphone, or tablet. And applications are accessed over myriad network configurations, including wireless and mobile networks. Brad Stoner presents an in-depth look at performance testing challenges for mobile applications including recording from devices, playing back device-specific requests, and accounting for variances in users’ geographical locations. Discover some of the best mobile performance testing approaches such as emulating mobile networks with varying connection speeds, packet loss, and latency during load tests. Find out when to use real devices vs. emulators to ensure high mobile application performance delivery to all end-users, at all times—on any device or network.
The Mobile Web is a complicated beast, making Mobile Web Performance a tough problem to tackle. Is an iPad on WiFi a part of the Mobile Web? How about a laptop with a 3G stick?
This presentation tries to split the Mobile Web into three categories, to make it more manageable: Network, Software & Hardware. For each, it reviews the performance challenges this category entails, and offers possible solutions to those challenges.
A recording of this presentation (with audio) is available here: http://vimeo.com/32917131
Changing Admins Lives Forever with Automated Network ManagementMark Piening
Originally presented as "Why Console Servers Bleed Your Bottom Line".
Takes a hard look at the latent and unnecessary costs, risks and wasted time in traditional SNMP-based software monitoring, and how to change the economics for managing mission-critical sites and demanding users
Edge 2016 what slows you down - your network or your deviceakamaidevrel
For many years we have concentrated on back-end and network latency and ignored the processing time on the user device. Today, we spent most time on small mobile devices, compared to laptops they’re underpowered and web performance suffers. While handheld devices get more powerful, web pages get more and more complex. Especially the usage of javascript libraries and css framworks is very computational expensive. Based on data from real users, we quantify the relative importance of network and device for web performance. We also benchmark mobile devices and correlate their power to the web performance they achieve.
VISUG - Approaches for application request throttlingMaarten Balliauw
Speaking from experience building a SaaS: users are insane. If you are lucky, they use your service, but in reality, they probably abuse. Crazy usage patterns resulting in more requests than expected, request bursts when users come back to the office after the weekend, and more! These all pose a potential threat to the health of our web application and may impact other users or the service as a whole. Ideally, we can apply some filtering at the front door: limit the number of requests over a given timespan, limiting bandwidth, ...
In this talk, we’ll explore the simple yet complex realm of rate limiting. We’ll go over how to decide on which resources to limit, what the limits should be and where to enforce these limits – in our app, on the server, using a reverse proxy like Nginx or even an external service like CloudFlare or Azure API management. The takeaway? Know when and where to enforce rate limits so you can have both a happy application as well as happy customers.
F5 EMEA Webinar Oct'15: http2 how to ease the transitionDmitry Tikhovich
HTTP/2 is here. It improves the way browsers and servers communicate, allowing for faster transfer of information. Today’s websites use many different components besides standard HTML, including design elements, client-side scripting, images, video, and flash animations. To transfer that information, a browser has to create several connections, putting a huge load on both the server delivering the content and the browser, which can lead to a slowdown as more and more elements are added to a site.
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UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
By Design, not by Accident - Agile Venture Bolzano 2024
Cloud Connect Santa Clara 2013: Web Acceleration and Front-End Optimization (Hooman Beheshti)
1. Web Acceleration and Front End
Optimization
Cloud Connect 2013 Santa Clara
Hooman Beheshti
VP Technology, Strangeloop
hooman@strangeloopnetworks.com