Velocity Europe Conference 2013
2013-11-13..2013-11-15
London, United Kingdom
who it's for
web performance engineers, frontend developers, devops engineers, site reliability engineers, release engineers, engineering managers, mobile engineers
topics
CDN architecture and cache invalidation; Varnish and nginx performance tuning; Resource Timing polyfill and third-party tracing; continuous delivery with large test suites; automating WebPageTest and wpt-script; HTTP Archive analysis with BigQuery; responsive image generation and imager tooling; WebP and JPEG XR image optimization; device emulation and remote handset testing; real user monitoring and RUM integration
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Making Government Digital Services Fast | Paul Downey | 15m |
Built a single GOV.UK site that replaces thousands of pages and serves far more successful visits, launched by switching old sites off and handling about 1… | ||
| The Performance Of Others | Klaus Enzenhofer | 05m |
Built a JavaScript polyfill for Resource Timing that backfills W3C timing data into older browsers and hooks into Compuware dynaTrace, revealing exact… | ||
| Testing All The Way To Production | Sam Adams | 16m |
Runs continuous delivery for an exchange handling $10 billion a day, keeping every commit a potential release candidate and using 7,000 end-to-end acceptance… | ||
| Small Changes, Big Results | Ted Middleton | 28m |
EdgeCast runs a multi-terabit CDN across ~30 locations and measures behavior 116 billion times/month. A config-lookup refactor removes throughput degradation… | ||
| Stand Down Your Smartphone Testing Army | Mitun Zavery | 10m |
Demo shows two free tools and a concrete bug: DeviceAnywhere Free gives interactive remote control of real handsets and reproduces a site that renders mobile… | ||
| Lightning Demo: Global Web Page Performance | James Smith | 06m |
WorldwidePageTest.com tests a URL from many real locations and plots latency and waterfall results on a world map, using the WebPageTest API to enumerate… | ||
| Making Performance Personal at FT Labs | Andrew Betts | 11m |
FT Labs describes concrete fixes and measurable wins: an open source FastClick removes the 300ms delay, blocking third‑party share widgets cuts a page… | ||
| John Allspaw's AMA | John Allspaw | 27m |
Etsy runs roughly 40–60 deploys a day while deliberately decoupling code rollout from schema and infra changes, using Chef to manage the infrastructure… | ||
| Lightning Demo: HTTP Archive, BigQuery, and you! | Ilya Grigorik | 09m |
HTTP Archive dumps ~0.5 TB of crawl data back to 2010 with bi-monthly runs over ~300,000 desktop and 10,000 mobile sites, and the dataset lives in BigQuery for… | ||
| An Introduction to Code Club | John Wards | 09m |
Volunteer-led after-school clubs teach 9–11 year olds to code with step-by-step worksheets that move from Scratch to HTML and CSS to Python; examples include a… | ||
| Slowing Down To Go Faster | Tom Maslen | 21m |
Responsive projects take about three times longer to build at BBC News yet over 50% of traffic is mobile so tooling is essential Grunt automates minification… | ||
| Extreme Image Optimisation: WebP & JPEG XR | Ido Safruti | 12m |
Akamai adds server‑side support for WebP and JPEG XR and reports about 30% average file‑size savings on images compared with legacy JPEG/PNG, measured by… | ||
| Changing Ops And Dev Culture At The BBC | Andrew Brockhurst | 11m |
Shared BBC hosting causes cross-app outages and a 70% deployment failure rate driven by infrequent releases, manual JIRA/Jenkins handoffs and environment drift… | ||
| Alice in Mobileland | Courtney Nash | 11m |
Demo of PageSpeed Insights scores the conference site as not mobile-optimized and flags 10 blocking JavaScript and CSS in the head, prompting an audit that… | ||
| Lightning Demo: Automating The Removal Of Unused CSS | Addy Osmani | 06m |
Demo of an automated build step that strips unused stylesheet rules using an unCSS module wired into a grunt task. Shows Bootstrap pages where roughly 89%… | ||
| Lightning Demo: New RUM Resource From SOASTA | Buddy Brewer | 08m |
A public beta at soasta.com/impulse exposes a dataset of 85 years of page load times collected with Boomerang JS using Navigation Timing plus a… | ||
| Automating WebPagetest with wpt-script | Jonathan Klein | 05m |
Etsy open sources wpt-script, a PHP tool that automates WebPagetest via its API to run scheduled synthetic tests, pull results, and push metrics to Graphite… | ||
| Robert Castley, Lead Solutions Consultant of Keynote Systems: Velocity EU Conference 2013 | Robert Castley | 09m |
Advice on where to start with performance testing for a $20–50M site focusing on revenue channels and testing the desktop tablet smartphone trio. Shows a car… | ||
| Mobile Web Performance and User Experience | Tammy Everts | 13m |
Radware user research tests ecommerce and travel sites with users wearing physiological and eye‑tracking gear and finds concrete effects: 55% of online retail… | ||
| Interview | Ted Middleton | 10m |
EdgeCast positions itself as more than a CDN, claiming fastest DNS based on third‑party comparisons using synthetic tests and RUM (Gomez, Keynote, Catchpoint… | ||
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