Raiders of the fast start: Frontend performance archeology
Making your site faster seems so easy in theory, but in practice, diagnosing and fixing performance issues on a large legacy codebase is like being an archaeologist excavating the remains of a lost civilization. Pick up a trowel and join Katie Sylor-Miller to learn real-life lessons on how Etsy uncovered and fixed performance issues in its mobile product page code.
| Talk Title | Raiders of the fast start: Frontend performance archeology |
| Speakers | Katie Sylor-Miller (Etsy) |
| Conference | O’Reilly Fluent Conference |
| Conf Tag | The Web Platform in Practice |
| Location | San Jose, California |
| Date | June 12-14, 2018 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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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 so 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 join Katie Sylor-Miller to dig into frontend performance on Etsy’s large legacy mobile codebase, exploring real-life lessons you can use to guide your own excavations into legacy code and discovering how Etsy unearthed new insights into its culture. While Etsy prides itself on its culture of performance, like all cultures, it needs to adapt and reinvent itself to account for changes to the landscape. The company is now making the case for a new, organization-wide frontend-focused performance culture that will solve the problems we face today. Topics include:
