Velocity Europe 2013 Links

O'Reilly Velocity Conference (7)
Velocity is much more than a conference; it's become the essential training event and source of information for web professionals from companies of all sizes. Books, newsletters, industry reports, in-person and online events, and much more.

grunt-uncss (4)
grunt-uncss - A grunt task for removing unused CSS from your project builds

Welcome - SOASTA (3)
Welcome We are excited to present SOASTA mPulseUX. This is a free, at your fingertips resource for real user measurement data. The Browsers, Geography, Mobile and Patience tabs on the right hand navigation can help you answer questions such as: What are the most patient countries in the world?

Image Optimisation (2)
The images below will either be a standard JPEG or a WebP image. This is determined using a server side alogrithm based on the browser agent. For more information, please see this link.

Imager.js (2)
Imager.js - Responsive images while we wait for srcset to finish cooking

VelocityConf EU 2013 - Turbocharge your mobile web apps by using offline (2)
Presentation I gave on November 14, 2013 during VelocityConf EU 2013. Offline is awesome. Overview of packaged apps, appcache, service workers, caching AJAX req

worldwidepagetest.com - (2)
WebPageTest is one of our favourite tools but testing your website's performance from different locations around the globe can be a laborious exercise in manual testing or writing your own custom scripts to talk to the WebPageTest API.

Addressing The Responsive Images Performance Problem: A Case Study (1)
Five-inch mobile devices are on the market that have the same screen resolution as 50-inch TVs. We have users with unlimited high-speed broadband as well as users who pay money for each megabyte transferred. Responsive design for images is about optimizing the process of serving images to users.

Advice Yoda Gives (1)
You may have heard of a small movie franchise called Star Wars. The character of Yoda was played by a puppet voiced and operated by famous puppeteer and visionary Frank Oz. Yoda was a Jedi master who helped train Luke Skywalker to realize his full Je

An Honest Mistake (1)
The Bravery discovered using Shazam

Apache CloudStack Collaboration Conference - 20/21/22 November 2013 (1)
Cloudstack collaboration conference Europe

AutoNmap (1)
AutoNmap - Automated daily scan using Nmap and report on the differences

BackTrack Linux - Penetration Testing Distribution (1)
Penetration Testing and Security Auditing Linux Distribution

Basilic | Digital Business Intelligence" (1)
User-timing is a great way of understanding and optimize the performance of a webpage or a template. By measuring the performance of webpage blocks, you can efficiently optimize a page, block by block... the old divide-and-conquer rule. You can find many blog posts on the subject.

Because .com Wasn't Available (1)
When you work on web performance every day, it is easy to assume that the best practices are widely known, widely understood, and widely followed. Unfortunately, as I have learned through a couple of different experiences recently, this is not the case.

Bring the Noise (1)
This talk was given at Velocity '13 in Santa Clara by Abe Stanway and Jon Cowie. It talks about how Etsy make sense of the 250k metrics they gather, using their

Building a new DNS on a world class CDN (1)
We recently introduced EdgeCast route, our globally distributed DNS (Domain Name System) service.

Can I use JPEG XR image format (1)
The latest JPEG image format of Joint Photographic Experts Group which boasts better compression and supports lossless compression, alpha channel, and 48-bit deep color over normal jpg format.

Can I use WebP image format (1)
Image format that supports lossy and lossless compression, as well as animation and alpha transparency.

cdncontrol (1)
cdncontrol - CLI tool for working with multiple CDNs

Cedexis - Real time data for real time decisions (1)
On the web, performance is the measure of a brand. When entering new global markets, you need to select cloud proviers, datacenters, and delivery networks that you can count on. Use our free country report below to shine light on your path to global expansion. Curious about how this data is collected?

Code Club | Home (1)
A nationwide network of volunteer-led after school coding clubs for children aged 9-11

Content from Velocity Europe 2013 (1)
Sets let you organize your photos on Flickr. Explore the 113 photos in this set.

Everything is a Freaking DNS problem | Devops Needs Sushi (1)
Like a lot of technologies it takes a while to settle in to your environment and to tune it so it fits your needs better. RoboMow is no different .. once you have the layout of your cable solved (digged in preferrably) it works awesome ..

High Performance Browser Networking (1)
How prepared are you to build fast and efficient web applications? This eloquent book provides what every web developer should know about the network, from fundamental limitations that affect performance to major innovations for building even more powerful browser applications-including HTTP 2.0 and XHR improvements, Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSocket, and WebRTC.

High Velocity Migration (1)
My talk from Velocity NY 2013: This is the story of how Hipster, a fictional New York City based social blogging platform, migrated from managed hosting to their servers. In their own facility. In under 6 hours. On the first try. Through this story I will illustrate the tools and techniques that made it all possible.

HTTP Archive (1)

HTTPArchive et Big Query for fun (1)
SELECT url, PageSpeed, bytesTotal, bytesImg, reqTotal, gzipSavings, round((gzipSavings/bytesTotal) * 100, 1) as percent FROM [httparchive:runs.latest_pages] WHERE REGEXP_MATCH(url, r'.m6.fr|lexpress.fr|boursorama.com|20minutes.fr|mediapart.fr|ouest-france.fr|leparisien.fr')

IFTTT / Put the internet to work for you. (1)
Put the internet to work for you.

Image Optimisation (1)
By saving a JPG image at double size but 0% quality and allow the browser to scale it to fit a smaller placeholder, you can reduce the image weight whilst increasing the bit depth; great for using one image for retina and non-retina displays. For more information check out this link.

Integrating multiple CDN providers at Etsy - Velocity EU 2013 (1)
Relying on a single content delivery network for your site can impose a number of flexibility limitations. By diversifying your CDN providers you can put the po

Introduction - Serf (1)
Serf is a service discovery and orchestration tool that is decentralized, highly available, and fault tolerant. Serf runs on every major platform: Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It is extremely lightweight: it uses 5 to 10 MB of resident memory and primarily communicates using infrequent UDP messages.

Jesper Petersson | Blog (1)
Jesper Petersson - A software engineer with a passion for web development. A blog about web, algorithms and computer engineering.

Keynote Systems - Keynote Competitive Research (1)
Keynote Competitive Research, Keynote's industry analysis group, provides you with intelligence into markets and competitors, as well as deeper understanding of your customers.

Login - Keynote DeviceAnywhere (1)
Mobile testing, mobile application testing and development. Test mobile apps on demand, automated testing on all smart devices, 24x7 performance monitoring.

Making government digital services fast - a session at Velocity Europe 2013 by Paul Downey (1)
In this talk, Paul will show through a series of examples how The Government Digital Service recognise, prioritise and quickly address performance issues whilst helping government build digital ser...

MeasureWorks - Velocity Europe - Real World Rum (1)
Slides from Velocity Conference Europe 2013 from my joint session with @bbrewer (Soasta). The talk covers implementation, analysis techniques and how you as the

morgue (1)
morgue - post mortem tracker

Morgue: Helping Better Understand Events by Building a Post Mortem Tool - Bethany Macri (1)
There's been much discussion at [my company] about how valuable post mortems are in understanding the circumstances that led to an outage or event. How to conduct and memorialize a post mortem, however, remained unsystematic. My talk will be about why myself and another engineer built an internal post mortem tool called Morgue and the effect that the tool has had on our organization.

Multivariate Testing with WebPagetest (1)
For your advanced web performance testing needs, WebPagetest's out-of-the-box functionality can do most of the heavy lifting for you. The scripting interface alone is powerful enough to handle most advanced use cases. For everything else, we have some other strong tools at our disposal, including multi-location and bulk testing.

O'Reilly Velocity Conference (1)
Velocity is much more than a conference; it's become the essential training event and source of information for web professionals from companies of all sizes. Books, newsletters, industry reports, in-person and online events, and much more.

One Weird Trick to Transform your Culture Overnight! (1)

Packer (1)
Packer is a free and open source tool for creating golden images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.

PageSpeed Insights (1)

Rest.li (1)
Rest.li fills a niche for building RESTful service architectures at scale, offering a developer workflow for defining data and REST APIs that promotes uniform interfaces, consistent data modeling, type-safety, and compatibility checked API evolution.

robin osborne (1)

Schmap.it - Intechnica (1)
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scratch-curriculum (1)
scratch-curriculum - Term 1 and 2 of Code Club, learning Scratch

Seen | Velocity Europe 2013 - 2013 - London, England (1)
All you need to know about Velocity Europe 2013 in tweets, photos and videos. The best way to experience Velocity Europe 2013 short of being there.

Serf (1)
Serf is able to quickly detect failed members and notify the rest of the cluster. This failure detection is built into the heart of the gossip protocol used by Serf. Like humans in a zombie apocalypse, everybody checks their peers for infection and quickly alerts the other living humans.

Slowing Down To Go Faster: Responsive Web Design And The Problem Of Agility vs Robustness (1)
The great irony of modern web development is that to make a website as fast as possible requires much more of your time. In an environment where you have to develop swiftly, how do you balance the need of meeting deadlines with the need to get the job done right?

Speedtest.net by Ookla - My Results (1)
Test your Internet connection bandwidth to locations around the world with this interactive broadband speed test from Ookla

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Test Website | Free Download | Keynote Internet Testing Environment (1)
Test Website, Web testing made easy with KITE. Download KITE for free and starting testing the performance of your Web site, Web applications and Web transactions.

The Business Bits of Web Operations (1)
Web operations and development have formed a unified front of the last few years. Those fluent in the field understand devops and some of the business reasons for walking this path. In this talk, I'll discuss some of the business operations you should add to the mix to drive a better value for your organization.

The Journey of devops and continuous delivery in a Large Financial Institution (1)
The Journey of devops and continuous deliverey in a Large Financial Institution, as presented by @markheistek and myselve at Velocity Conf 2013, Longon

The Lynch Insights Daily (1)
The Lynch Insights Daily, by Timothy Lynch: updated automatically with a curated selection of articles, blog posts, videos and photos.

Tools for image optimization (1)
As we saw a few weeks ago, the weight of an average web page is now almost 1.5MB (median ~1MB), with > 50% of this being images. It's a harsh reminder that many

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uncss (1)
uncss - Remove unused styles from CSS

Velocity 2013 Hands On Web Performance Workshop (1)
Slides from the Hands On Web Performance Workshop given at Velocity Europe 2013 by Andy Davies (@andydavies) and me.

Velocity Conference: What Should I Monitor? (1)
Click the preview above to see the video of Baron's Velocity Conference talk that discusses the following: We should measure the system's work, not just its status. Work is the system's raison d'etre. Generic, dumb tools aren't enough; we need to know the meaning of the metrics. Some metrics are of central importance.

Velocity EU: Give Responsive Design a Mobile Performance Boost (1)
With RWD as the base, a story about how to still utilize the server for what the server is great at.

Velocity Europe 2013 - Day 1 - (1)
La pr√©sentation s'axe ensuite plus particuli√®rement sur la stack "Kale", qui englobe deux outils que l'on va d√©tailler : Skyline et Oculus.

Velocity London 2013 - Upgrading the Web: Driving Support for New Standards (1)
Velocity London 2013 - Upgrading the Web: Driving Support for New Standards fromJonathan Klein Rate this talk!

VelocityConf: Rendering Performance Case Studies (1)
Jank-free rendering performance has been shown to positively affect user engagement and user experience in a number large sites, yet remains an area many developers are unaware of how to diagnose or optimize for.

Viewport Resizer - Responsive design testing tool by Malte Wassermann (1)
Viewport Resizer is a browser-based tool to test any website's responsiveness.

Web Performance Today (1)
It's fall, which means it's time for Radware's quarterly State of the Union for Ecommerce Performance! If you're not familiar with these reports, here's a quick backgrounder: Every three months, we analyze the performance of the top 500 retail websites, as ranked by Alexa.

WebP - Google Developers (1)
Documentation for WebP

WebPagetest - Website Performance and Optimization Test (1)
Run a free website speed test from around the globe using real browsers at consumer connection speeds with detailed optimization recommendations.

When dynamic becomes static: the next step in web caching techniques (1)
Although tools like Varnish can improve performance and scalability for static sites, when user-specific content is needed, a hit to the PHP/Ruby/Python/.Net ba

Why choose Erlang for web development? (1)
Answer (1 of 3): We've measured all the existing modern web frameworks built with functional languages and Cowboy is still the king. On the chart below you can see raw HTTP performance of functional and C-like languages with concurrent primitives (Go, D and Rust) on VAIO Z notebook with i7640M pr...

WorkFlowy.com - Organize your brain. (1)
WorkFlowy is an organizational tool that makes life easier. It's a surprisingly powerful way to take notes, make lists, collaborate, brainstorm, plan and generally organize your brain.

wpt-script (1)
wpt-script - Scripts to generate WebPagetest tests and download results

wraith (1)
wraith - Wraith - A responsive screenshot comparison tool

Yoav Weiss - Responsive images techniquess and beyond (1)
here to talk about responsive images, why they're important, what are the use cases and what you can do about it today. Then I'll also give an overview of what the future might look like Yoav Weiss Velocity EU - London, November 2013 yoavweiss.github.io/velocity-eu-13-presentation Need to prepare before: sizersoze test page + results, har before and after preloader Who????

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