New York Web Performance Group

Session 1: The Instant Web and the AMP Revolution w/ Michael Posso Accelerated Mobile Pages is a new technology initiative by Google that allows super fast web content on mobile devices. AMP is an open-source project and its designed to support many frameworks and content management system such as WordPress. AMP is an extension of HTML and Javascript that is deployed to the client via a proxy CDN. AMP revolves around a set of user-centric design principles that guarantees a fast rich mobile experience. Michael Posso is the Manager of Digital Development at AECOM. Michael is a front-end engineer specialized in developing content management systems and strategies for enterprise organizations. Session 2: Optimizing React Performance w/ Ava Shaw After working on a platform built in React, which delivers real time streaming data and renders complex graphics, this presentation will share my experience using the framework over the last two years. This will include an overview of the latest updates in React 16 geared towards optimizing performance, tools used to measure the performance of the application, and discuss the strategies and designs used to build out an application with the best possible performance. Ava Shaw is a software engineer specializing in front end web development since 2001. Recently she's worked on financial data software platforms which pushes browsers to their limits by creating advanced data visualizations which update in realtime. Currently she works with Atlassian on the Trello team building out the features that fellow developers use everyday to organize their projects. Meetup is hosting us this time! And they have food and drinks! As always, we are going to have geekaways with geeky prizes provided by our sponsors. Agenda: 6:30 - Arrive at Meetup, meet other members 6:45 - Event starts 7:00 - The instant Web and the AMP Revolution (Michael Posso) 7:30 - Web Performance with React 16 (Ava Shaw) 8:00 - Q&A 8:15 - "Books and Stuff" geekaways 8:30 - Open Discussion, Networking Location: Meetup 632 Broadway 9th floor New York, NY Directions on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/VUw23K Entrance on StreetView: https://goo.gl/h4Cwh6 Our Sponsor: Fastly is the only CDN that gives businesses complete control over how they serve content and the ability to cache frequently changing content at the edge.