Your Script Just Killed my Site - Steve Souders w/ Doug Crockford
- Nov 15, 2012 · 6:45 PM
As an ode to our front end engineers in the group, we have partnered with Bayjax and are bringing you a superstar lineup:
Steve Souders, Web Performance Expert at Google will present: "Your Script Just Killed My Site"
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Douglas Crockford is back to host and moderate the discussion
RSVP now to reserve your spot – this event will fill up.
About "Your Script Just Killed My Site":
Ads, buttons, widgets – third party content is popular on today’s websites. JavaScript provides a great way to mashup content from different sources. Unfortunately, in most cases each JavaScript snippet is capable of bringing down the entire site. Wha?! That’s right – site outages aren’t restricted to the backend, they happen on the frontend, too. Join Steve Souders as he talks about the prevalence of frontend SPOF, ways to avoid it, and a deep dive into snippet performance analysis.
Agenda:
Beer tasting + local cuisine* starting @ 6:41 PM
Presentation by Steve Souders @ 7:19 PM
Discussion with Douglas Crockford @ 7:53 PM
A note on the line to get in:
We have worked with security to revamp the check-in process to SPEED THINGS UP. =)
Recommendations wanted: Post your favorite San Jose-based restaurant on the wall (preferably places with vegetarian/vegan options).
Public Transit Info: Venue is across the street from a Light Rail stop: Karina Station
About Steve Souders:
Steve is Head Performance Engineer at Google where he works on web performance and open source initiatives. He previously served as Chief Performance Yahoo!. He is the creator of YSlow, one of the top 25 Firefox add-ons. He's created numerous performance tools and services including the HTTP Archive, Cuzillion, Jdrop, ControlJS, andBrowserscope. (visit www.stevesouders.com for more info)
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Amanda S.
December 1, 2012
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Stan Tze-Hsiang L.
I had a short discussion about google analytics js with Steve after the talk and would like to share. Actually I found that pattern is still blocking window.onload event so that you'll see a the spinning wheel on the browser tab. Steve admitted that it's a known issue and they are working on a new pattern to load js async. In the meantime I suggest we can look at http://www.phpied.com/non-onload-blocking-async-js/
http://www.aaronpeters.nl/blog/why-loading-third-party-scripts-async-is-not-good-enough
November 16, 2012
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A former member
Great follow up comment and links. Thanks Stan.
November 17, 2012
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Peter K.
Wish I could have been there. Love to hear if it got recorded and posted.
November 15, 2012
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Amanda S.
Hi Peter, wish you could have joined us! We will have video posted to our Youtube page shortly after the holiday. Plus, g33ktalk.com will be posting a podcast of the event shortly.
November 16, 2012
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A former member
Very informative.
November 16, 2012
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Ron F.
This was by far the best event yet. They are getting better and better with each iteration. Delicious food, amazing beer, wonderful social hour -and that's all before this awesome event even gets started! Kudos to Amanda and gang for putting on a world-class event. Well done!
November 15, 2012
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Dmitry
I knew a lot of the material covered, yet walked away energized and ready to make our site even faster. Thanks Steve!
November 15, 2012
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Frank M. P.
Excellent presentation and question/answer period by the two learned gentlemen.
November 15, 2012
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Karen D.
Thanks for organizing this great event! Very timely and relevant information!
November 15, 2012
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Amanda S.
Great idea - Know of any delicious, local Japanese restaurants that cater?
November 5, 2012
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Andrey M.
Hi!
Unfortunately I cannot go to the event, because we have Demo Day at the same time.
But as a startup we have exact match to this event.
qbaka.net is javascript error monitoring, exactly the tool that could kill your website if done wrong :) (but we never kill your website, because we do it right, the website is 100% safe).So my collegue will go, and I will try to get to the event late, to network and possibly ask Douglas Crockford some questions. My question is: will it be possible to enter the event location late? For example, if I get there by 8:30PM? I'm not sure when will I get free on the event day.
November 12, 2012
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Amanda S.
Hi Andrey, come on by! We'll probably be finishing up around then, but you never know...discussion could still be alive and well!
November 12, 2012
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