O'Reilly Velocity Online Conference

Velocity chair Steve Souders will set the stage for this online event, offering a quick overview of what’s happening in the mobile performance ecosystem, and introducing our speakers.

Many companies with high traffic web sites never know when or where the next burst will come from, or how big it will be. Regardless of whether there are 50 people on the site or 50,000, they must maintain superior application performance or risk losing users. In this kind of environment, having the ability to baseline application performance, to understand what normal is and to be prepared for deviations from it, is more important than ever. In fact, it could mean the difference between scaling and failing. In this session, New Relic VP of Engineering Bjorn Freeman-Benson will demonstrate how real-time application monitoring can provide the visibility needed to:

• Track application and user behavior 24×7
• Identify and remediate performance bottlenecks
• Understand performance trends over the long term, and identify ‘normal’ behavior
• Plan for and identify deviations from Normal
• Stay proactive and scale seamlessly

Testing is not enough for the realities of modern Javascript application development. For 3rd-party Javascript providers (like us here at Olark), the Internet is often a hostile mix of browsers, doctypes, strange cookie behaviors, and poorly sandboxed libraries. The number of “real world” testing environments quickly gets out of hand.

Monitoring has become key to ensuring Olark works great across 3M+ visits on thousands of different websites every day.

In this talk, we will run through:

• How Olark leverages application monitoring to gain deep insights into issues, behaviors, and performance
• How you can use existing logs and off-the-shelf tools to quickly spin up your own monitoring :)

SPDY and HTTP/2.0 – lessons from SPDY to be considered for a next generation web protocol.

This session will show all you can do with Mobitest, a mobile web performance recently open-sourced by Akamai. We’ll show how Mobitest works, how you can get it working on your phone, and how to connect it with your private webpagetest instance. We’ll also give an update on the hosted version of Mobitest, which is still going strong. Lastly, we’ll talk a bit about open-sourcing in general, and what does that mean for Mobitest specifically.

We’ll close with a look at what’s coming up with Velocity in 2012 and recap the mobile performance tools discussed at this online conference.