Will HTTP/2 make my site faster?
How latency, packet loss, content type, and third-party content affect performance.
Performance can make or break your business. Here we spotlight insights and strategies for achieving the best performance yet.
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Pitfalls of HTTP/2
HTTP/2 is still new and, although deploying it is relatively easy, there are a few things to be on the lookout for when enabling it.
Understanding the value of distributed tracing
Five questions for Ben Sigelman about adopting distributed tracing tools and optimizing performance of complex, distributed systems.
Optimize your business through web performance
The O’Reilly Podcast: Larry Haig discusses how to create a performance culture.
eBPF and systems performance
Five questions for Brendan Gregg about improving the performance of Linux systems.
Highlights from the O'Reilly Fluent Conference in San Jose 2017
Watch highlights covering frontend tools and techniques, performance, web apps, and more. From the O'Reilly Fluent Conference in San Jose 2017.
The power of scriptable load balancers
Five questions for Emil Stolarsky on moving logic to the edge of your systems.
Fast and safe frontend fixes
How service workers, HTTPS, and other techniques can help you achieve security and speed.
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Distributed tracing: What it is and why it will become a default tool
An interview with Reshmi Krishna, cloud application and platform architect at Pivotal.
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High performance images: Beautiful shouldn’t mean slow
How to provide the eye-pleasing experience you want without sacrificing your site's performance.
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A primer on performance of web applications
Learn the basics of measuring performance from chapter 2 of High Performance Responsive Design.
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Making responsive websites fast
A review of the most common responsive design performance pitfalls and how you can keep your responsive site snappy and fun.
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Designing delivery: A new model of control
As companies have increasingly automated internal processes and customer interactions, IT has become part of the control mechanism itself.
People
Steve Souders
Steve Souders works at SpeedCurve on the interplay between performance and design. He previously served as Google’s head performance engineer, chief...
Ilya Grigorik
Ilya Grigorik is a developer advocate and web performance engineer at Google. He spends his days and nights working on making the web faster and building and driving adoption of performance best pract...
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Lara Hogan
Lara Callender Hogan is the Senior Engineering Manager of Performance at Etsy and the author of Designing for Performance. She champions performance as a part of the overall user experience, striking ...
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