Wesley Hales

Owning Web Performance with PhantomJS 2 and Docker

Thu 9:00 AM

Setting up a web performance monitoring tool can be a challenging task. You start out by provisioning a server with all the needed dependencies. Then you must jump through all the other setup hoops and hope everything runs like it’s supposed to in the end. Today, we have many options for capturing this complex setup and making life easier when it comes to web performance testing.

In this talk we’ll review a dockerized web performance tool, how it can be used to monitor and measure performance, and how to get up and running in just a few minutes.

High Performance WebSocket

Thu 11:00 AM

Adding a WebSocket service to an application is often misunderstood to be high performance by default, however there are many more considerations that must be made, both on the client and server, before the best performance can be achieved. Real-time technologies like SPDY, WebSocket, and soon HTTP 2.0 have their own sets of hurdles and anti-patterns to overcome and this talk will provide the checklist you need to fine tune your application’s real-time performance.

In this talk we’ll review where WebSockets fits in the spectrum of real-time technologies and then go over best practices for creating a secure, high performance, real-time application.
We’ll review the following in detail:

Using secure WebSocket (WSS) opposed to unsecure (WS)
Polyfill performance
WS subprotocols and different styles of interacting with WebSocket services.
Binary transmissions and optimizations
Compression
Battery life and optimizing long lived sessions