Speed is Feature #1

Speed of interactive UI is a critical aspect of web experience, especially now when mobile consumption and responsive design became an integral part of web strategy.

Sergey Chernyshev (http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/) (@sergeyche (http://twitter.com/sergeyche)) will talk about the most important feature of every web site and application and will describe why you need to care about speed, what are the common performance issues and how to establish a process for web performance optimization in your team.

Sergey is web performance enthusiast, open source hacker and web addict. He has over 15 years of web development and operations experience and works at truTV as Director of Web Systems and Applications technically overseeing web development and operations for company's web properties.

Sergey also organizes New York Web Performance Meetup Group (http://www.meetup.com/Web-Performance-NY/), local community of web performance geeks. He speaks at Velocity conference and often invited to talk on performance-related topics at various local New York events.

This is a joint session with CSS/UX meetup (http://www.meetup.com/nyccssux/events/219194676/).

Spotify (http://www.spotify.com/) is hosting us and will provide food and beer!

As always, we are going to have "geekaways" with geeky prizes sponsored by Catchpoint (http://www.catchpoint.com/) and books sponsored by O'Reilly (http://oreilly.com/)!

Agenda:

6:30 - Arrive at Spotify, meet other members
6:45 - Event starts
7:00 - Speed is Feature #1 (Sergey Chernyshev)
8:00 - Q&A
8:15 - "Books and Stuff" geekaways
8:30 - Open Discussion, Networking

Location:

Spotify
45 West 18th St
7th floor
New York, NY

Directions on Google Maps: http://bit.ly/1s5VkKe

Entrance on StreetView: http://bit.ly/1DyhMgc

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.

• Catchpoint (http://www.catchpoint.com/) is sponsoring us by providing 10% discount to our members and geeky stuff to raffle off.

• 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.