Metrics Driven Optimization

Hi everybody,

We hope you are enjoying the summer! We scheduled a new meetup and aks Aaron Peters and Thierry Schellenbach (Fashiolista) to give a presentation about Metrics Driven Optimization.

Agenda

18.00: Open doors

18.30: Food & drinks

19.00: Thierry Schellenbach - Fashiolista

Performance metrics for a social network
The story of Fashiolista's growth from a small hobby project to one of the largest online fashion communities. Thierry will show how tools like NewRelic, Statsd and PgFouine enabled Fashiolista to stay in control while scaling the site.

19.30: Short break

19.45: Aaron Peters

Using the WebPagetest API

The WPT API offers many useful methods for better understanding and optimizing website speed. Aaron will show examples of how you can use WPT beyond the single page test and give tips on what to use, what not and how interpret results.

20.15: Drinks & networking

Please give us your feedback

This will be our 6th WPO meetup. So we thought it is time to ask your feedback about the meetings we organized so far. We would like hear from you what you think about the topics, speakers, accomodation etc. Please fill in our survey (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YJWSVBS), it will only take a few minutes and it will help us to improve the meetups.

Thank you in advance!

Jeroen Tjepkema

Jos Houtman

Peter HJ van Eijk

Enno van Amerongen