Eric Schurman

Eric Schurman
Principal Engineer, Amazon

Eric Schurman has been working with the web since the early versions of NCSA Mosaic. He’s currently at Amazon.com as a Principal Engineer working on latency. Prior to that he worked at Microsoft on projects ranging from Bing.com’s search to the Microsoft.com home page and Download Center. His experiences writing books on web development, working with disabled users, and teaching classes in computer use have given him a passion for doing the right thing for the customer.

Sessions

9:30am Tuesday, 06/23/2009
The User and Business Impact of Server Delays, Additional Bytes, and HTTP Chunking in Web Search
Web Performance
 Location: Regency Ballroom
Eric Schurman (Amazon), Jake Brutlag (Google)
Average rating: ****.
(4.26, 34 ratings)
We applied several types of page slowdowns to very small percentages of our users for short periods of time and measured the impact in terms of metrics like clicks, time to click, repeat site usage, queries per visit, revenue, etc. This talk is to share the results. Read more.
  • Keynote Systems
  • Google
  • Shopzilla
  • Aptimize
  • Facebook
  • NeuStar
  • Rackspace Cloud
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • SoftLayer
  • SpringSource
  • Sun Microsystems

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