This talk was given at Midwest.io 2014.
The very first requirement of a great user experience is actually getting the bytes of that experience to the user before they they get fed up and leave.
In this talk we'll start with the basics and get progressively insane. We'll go over several frontend performance best practices, a few anti-patterns, the reasoning behind the rules, and how they've changed over the years. We'll also look at some great tools to help you.
About the Speaker
Philip Tellis is a geek who likes to make the computer do his work for him. As Chief Architect and Rum Distiller at SOASTA, Inc, he analyses the impact of various design decisions on web application performance, scalability and security. He is also the lead developer of "boomerang" -- a JavaScript based web performance measurement tool, and contributed to YSlow while working in Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance group.
In his spare time, Philip enjoys cycling, reading, cooking and learning spoken languages.
Philip has spoken at several conferences in the past, including FOSS.IN, FREED.IN, Ubuntulive, Linux Symposium, PHP Quebec, ConFoo, FOSDEM, IPC, WebDU, Velocity and JSConf. He also writes for Smashing Magazine, blogs at http://tech.bluesmoon.info/ and is @bluesmoon on twitter.
