December 13, 2010 6:30 PM - 79 attended
Building Fast Webapps, Fast (Lessons From Creating the Meebo Bar)
Marcus Westin (@marcuswestin) is going to talk about learnings from speeding up Meebo bar.
Description:
If the Meebo Bar is slow, hundreds of unforgiving partner websites and hundred of millions of users are affected. However, time spent on optimization is time away from feature development, and if we fall short on feature parity we lose market share to our competitors. As a result, it is crucial that we make good decisions about what and when to optimize. “Building Fast Webapps, Fast” tells stories of good and bad decisions we have made when faced with performance challenges for the Meebo Bar. Interlaced with high level optimization guiding principles, it is intended to be a fast-paced and fun story of how to take ownership of your web product’s performance.
Marcus has been working with Meebo since 2008. He’s all about the web and enjoys his javascript in the raw, sans library. Before Marcus came to Meebo he spent his spare time learning the ins and outs of frontend technology while studying for a BS in computer science at the University of Chicago. Catch him on a good day and he won’t stop talking about the open web.
This is going to be a great session! Meebo bar is a perfect example of a 3-rd party application on your site that is done good and doesn't slow you.
If you develop widgets or other 3rd-party tools that integrate using JavaScript, come learn how to avoid SLO-JS and not hurt others!
Our sponsors, books and holidays!
Now, what kind of the holiday is without presents?! Our sponsor, Catchpoint decided to help Santa this year!
We'll have the competition (hope you liked one last time!) with a great prise:
Amazon Kindle and a few performance eBooks to get you started!
We'll also have a few (e)books from Catchpoint and O'Reilly to give away so get ready to answer performance questions!
Agenda:
6:30 - Arrive to Meetup HQ, meet other members
6:45 - Event starts, Introduction (Sergey Chernyshev)
7:00 - Building Fast Webapps, Fast (Marcus Westin)
8:15 - Q&A
8:30 - Santa time! (books and Amazon Kindle)
8:45 - Open Discussion, Networking
Meetup.com is hosting us again. And they still have food and some drinks in their magic fridge!
Location:
Meetup HQ
632 Broadway
3rd floor
New York, NY 10012
Directions on Google Maps: http://bit.ly/az3d2y...
Entrance StreetView: http://bit.ly/b19uw6...
See you all there on Monday, December 13th at 6:30PM.
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Sergey Chernyshev
I'll try to do that, but so far video wasn't as successful as I want it to be so I can't promise it.
Posted December 12, 2010 at 1:03 PM -
sze
I left a black mini umbrella after tonight's event ended. did anybody spot a blank mini umbrella. if so, it's probably mine. please let me know.
Posted December 13, 2010 at 10:29 PM -
Maxim Rybalov
if the video doesn't work out, could we get slides?
Posted January 3, 2011 at 12:21 PM -
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Sergey Chernyshev
Slides are posted to TechPresentations: http://www.techpresentations.org/Building_Fast_Webapps,_F...
)Posted January 5, 2011 at 6:33 PM -
Sergey Chernyshev
OK, video is ready: http://webperf.blip.tv/file/4596493/
Posted January 5, 2011 at 6:52 PM -
Sergey Chernyshev
Oh, and Marcus posted their embed code to GitHub: https://github.com/meebo/embed-code
Posted January 6, 2011 at 12:19 AM
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Matt DonofrioFantastic! Marcus was extremely knowledgeable on the topic and the presentation was clear and concise.
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Michael ZaicGreat talk. I saw Marcus deliver the talk at Velocity this year, and I knew I wouldn't be disappointed. I wasn't. I thought Sergey did a great job organizing, and I'll definitely try to make it to future events.
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LuisAwesome event! Great people, discussion, food and beer. Cant beat that. Looking forward to the next event. Maybe we can get an iPad into the gift rotation :).
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Andrew J. MontalentiI thought the presentation itself was great. I thought the extended (45m+) raffle session at the end was a bit of a waste -- time could have been better spent networking w/ others in the room.
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Matt LondravilleWell planned and executed. The conversation was constant and interesting. Over-all a great night.
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ena_Good meeting: Informative and fun, good food, too. Thanks for the book "Closure"! The end was a bit too long--the giveaway should have been an iPad. :D
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Luke MeliaGood pizza & beer, nice intro by Sergey. Excellent presentation by Marcus, enjoyed the interaction with the crowd. Giveaways were fun but went on 4-5 times longer than I would have preferred.Checked-in
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szeGreat talk with Best Practices and Tips shared by the Community. Good food and drinks for only $5, not bad. :)Checked-in
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Mike BrittainGreat presentations.Checked-in I hope we can cut down on the quiz time and giveaways so we can actually network and discuss after the presentations in the future.
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