[TALK]@Telematika

Velocity

Performance is about more than time series charts

November 24, 2019

When most people think of performance monitoring tools, they think of things like time series charts, page load times, DNS resolution times, and backend service response times. Buddy Brewer explores alternative ways of visualizing performance data and explains how changing your perspective can sometimes lead you to surprising discoveries.

Poised to deploy: The C-suite and adaptive capacity

November 23, 2019

The C-suite (continuous delivery, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and their enablers like agile, scrum, and so on) is an investment in future adaptive capacity. Richard Cook explains the value of adaptive capacitybeing able to respond to new challenges and grasp new opportunitiesand explores its far-reaching consequences.

Prioritizing site performance improvements

November 23, 2019

Michelle Carrizosa and Iris Lieuw demonstrate how to prioritize improvements across your ecommerce site by identifying which of your pages are the most important to optimize and then looking at resource timing data to determine what affects those pages the most.

Real-world experience with HTTP/2

November 23, 2019

Michael Gooding and Javier Garza share their experiences using HTTP/2 over the last 12 months, exploring case studies that demonstrate how performance can be improved while also addressing backward compatibility, using RUM data to review performance-related observations of customers after making the switch, and hands-on demos of HTTP/2 with server push and HTTP/2 + QUIC.

Robust anomaly detection for real user monitoring data

November 23, 2019

For the past year, LinkedIn has been running and iteratively improving Luminol, its anomaly detection system for real user monitoring data. Ritesh Maheshwari and Yang Yang offer an overview of Luminol, focusing on how to build a low-cost end-to-end system that can leverage any algorithm, and explain lessons learned and best practices that will be useful to any engineering or operations team.

Running microservice environments is no free lunch

November 23, 2019

Migrating toward microservices tends to result in a 20x larger environment than monolithic counterparts. While the bright side of microservices and their enabling container platforms is high availability and scalability, what about the dark sidethe side that nobody talks about in their presentations. Alois Mayr and Alexander Ramos uncover the truth so you dont have to learn it the hard way.

Scaling frontend performance

November 23, 2019

Patrick Meenan outlines techniques for serving rich experiences to users on fast connections while still offering a fast experience for users on slow connections and addresses some eye-opening issues and solutions for serving content on mobile connections.

Security and performance: Breaking the conundrum. . .again

November 23, 2019

Security techniques have generally focused on protecting users by blocking requests going to the origin, but security is also a concern at the browser. Sonia Burney and Sabrina Burney explore how security can be enforced at the browser level through a combination of optimization techniques and security enhancements, which overall provide an optimal end-user experience.

So we hear you like papers

November 23, 2019

Surprisingly enough, academic papers can be interesting and very relevant to the work we do in industry as practitioners. Ines Sombra and Caitie McCaffrey demonstrate how academic papers can radically change your perspective and introduce you to new ideas, offering a tour of papers that have reshaped the way they think about building large-scale distributed systems.

So you want to be an Ops manager

November 23, 2019

When you ask Ops engineers where they want to go in their careers, the only answer you get after "I don't know" is "management." But what does that entail, and how do you get there? Alex Nobert discusses his career transition from engineer to manager to director, describing the day-to-day work, expectations, priorities, and goals of each so that you can learn from his mistakes.

Stateful applications on autopilot

November 22, 2019

Microservice architectures manage the complexity of the development process, and application containers help manage the dependencies and deployment of those microservices. But deploying and connecting services together is a challenge because it forces developers to design for operationalization. Timothy Gross explores autopiloting applications as a powerful design pattern to solve this problem.

Tackling consumption chaos in microservice architectures

November 22, 2019

Service consumption chaos is currently one of the biggest challenges in microservice environments. Mike Dvorkin discusses how tackling the complexity of exploding service dependencies and their control through a consistent consumption abstraction can significantly simplify how teams develop, test, deploy, and control applications.

Taking back control over third-party content

November 22, 2019

Our love-hate relationship with third parties has taken a turn for the worse. While they often pay the bills, HTTP/2 means theyre more of a performance burden, ad blockers mean users have had enough, and projects like Google AMP mean that embedders feel the same. Yoav Weiss explores how to gain back control of your site, discussing mitigation tactics as well as a long-term plan to restore sanity.

The fundamentals of building progressive web apps

November 22, 2019

Pete LePage explores the fundamentals of progressive web apps, covering how to architect a single-page web app using the App Shell model, how to identify the different service worker caching strategies and choose the most appropriate one for a use case, and how to implement an installable web app using manifests, metatags, and other techniques.

The state of the W3C Web Performance Working Group

November 22, 2019

Todd Reifsteck and Philippe Le Hegaret discuss the work the W3C Web Performance Working Group is doing, as well as performance-related efforts by other groups, so that you can be up to date with the latest developments and what's coming next. They also explain how easy it is to get involved, provide feedback, and influence the direction that these standards will take.

The wild west of media performance: A Vox story

November 22, 2019

A little over a year ago, Vox Media created a dedicated performance team, which immediately set out to make all Vox Media sites as fast as possibleand has since made significant progress. Ian Carrico and Jason Ormand discuss what the team has done, how it did it, and what it's still working on.

Troubleshooting without losing common ground

November 22, 2019

Common ground, an important concept in recent teamwork research, helps us understand why collaborative troubleshooting breaks down over time, leading to wasted effort and mistakes. Drawing on common ground as well as some ideas from medical diagnosis, Dan Slimmon demonstrates that by extending ChatOps, we can make troubleshooting much easier without losing the benefits of fluid team conversation.

Microsoft is irrelevant to me. I use a Mac": Is this you?

November 21, 2019

Microsoft has evolved. Among many other things, it is investing and transforming to provide the best mobile app development experience on the planet. DevOps is the backdrop for Microsoft's transformation. Volker Will shares Microsoft's experiences to help you on your own journey and evolve your point of view.

Turning high-velocity data into leverage for people

November 21, 2019

We are witnessing an explosion in the sheer mass and velocity of data. But this data is most useful if the actual builders and operatorsthe people with all the contextcan understand it and react to it quickly. Ozan Turgut discusses how to use visualization and analytics to turn data into leverage for decision making.

Unleashing the power within: A hands-on guide to browser developer tools

November 21, 2019

As any web developer knows, the developer tools built into modern browsers are packed with loads of features. The question is, do you really understand how or when to use them? These tools are capable of so much more than just debugging and inspecting elements in the DOM. Dean Hume teaches you exactly how to use the tools to become a better developer, one web page at a time.

Using machine learning to determine drivers of bounce and conversion

November 21, 2019

Google partnered with SOASTA to train a machine-learning model on a large sample of real-world performance, conversion, and bounce data. Patrick Meenan and Tammy Everts offer an overview of the resulting modelable to predict the impact of performance work and other site metrics on conversion and bounce rates.

Why DevOps is more than just automation

November 21, 2019

DevOps brings proven benefits by automating the deployment pipeline. David Hayes explores the benefits DevOps brings beyond automation, explaining the importance of shared operational responsibility on organizational culture, why reliability means both systems and people, and how aggregating alerts helps to maintain situational awareness.

You got your design team in my security team!

November 21, 2019

What if the answer to managing security issues starts with the product and design teams? Thinking about security design can drive everything from business decisions through operations, but it means rethinking what security is and building different kinds of relationships between teams. It's a long journey, but Eleanor Saitta outlines three steps to a safer future.

Your hero images need you: Save the day with HTTP/2 image loading

November 21, 2019

Tobias Baldauf explains how to use HTTP/2's superpowers to optimize image delivery, thereby increasing the perceived performance of your page, reducing load times, and driving conversions.