Rigorous Performance Testing on the Web with Grant Ellis
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The Web performance industry is as old as the Web itself, and in that time, performance testing has gone through multiple paradigm shifts.
Grant Ellis will explain the challenges of ensuring good performance on the Web with more complex, dynamic, personalized applications today -- not to mention more congested wireless networks.
Grant will explain how performance testing tools have evolved to measure different aspects of performance, and how to analyze and interpret raw performance data.
Tools will be compared under real-world circumstances and the mechanics of today's web will be explained.
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Grant is a passionate web performance evangelist. He joined Instart Logic (http://www.howdoable.com/to_do/NYWebPerf_with_Grant_Ellis_for_March_%28March_26%29/829/%7B$speaker-company-url%7D) in late 2013 as a senior performance architect. To date, Grant has spent eight years in the web performance space, working at Instart Logic, Strangeloop Networks, and at Akamai Technologies. For his last three years at Akamai, Grant served as an enterprise architect, consulting on all aspects of web performance, scale, fault-tolerance, and security. He was also responsible for custom solution design, complicated integrations, and technical pre-sales. Before Akamai, Grant was a consultant and analyst with Accenture. He holds a B.S. degree in computer science, and a minor in mathematical modeling from Trinity College in Hartford.
We will be at Spotify (http://www.howdoable.com/to_do/NYWebPerf_with_Grant_Ellis_for_March_%28March_26%29/829/%7B$host-url%7D) and they also sponsor have food and beer for our group!
As always, at the end of the event, we are going to have geekaways, sponsored by Catchpoint (http://www.catchpoint.com/) with great geeky prizes!
Agenda:
6:30 - Arrive to Spotify, meet other members
6:45 - Event starts
7:00 - Rigorous Performance Testing on the Web (Grant Ellis)
8:00 - Q&A
8:15 - "Books and Stuff" geekaways
8:30 - Open Discussion, Networking
Location:
Spotify45 West 18th St
7th floor
New York, NY
Directions on Google Maps: http://bit.ly/1nnRWE2
Entrance on StreetView: http://bit.ly/1k05Drs
Our Sponsors:
• Akamai® (http://www.akamai.com/) is the leading cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere.
• Instart Logic (http://instartlogic.com/) replaces CDNs with intelligent streaming of web content. Users can interact with Web apps 2x faster, even for mobile devices.
• Radware (http://www.radware.com/) provides advanced front-end optimization (FEO) solutions to companies like eBay/PayPal, Visa, and O'Reilly Media.
• SOASTA (http://www.soasta.com/)’s web and mobile app test automation solution enables developers, QA professionals, and IT Operations teams to test with unprecedented speed, scale and precision.
• Catchpoint (http://www.catchpoint.com/) is sponsoring us by providing 10% discount to our members and geeky stuff to raffle off.
