The Meetup engineering team will share the latest news on our platform in this Meetup Live community update. Watch Rajib Ahmed, Meetup’s Chief Technology Officer & Chief Product Officer; Justin Lucente, Director of Engineering; and Alex Garrison, Engineering Manager; for a discussion on upcoming projects for Meetup’s engineering team. Hear about how performance metrics and customer feedback play a major role in planning the team’s roadmap.
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Top Q&A Questions and Resources
- How do you measure how much faster you are than your competitors?
- Alex: We run weekly and daily reports on our page for events and then we can run those exact same reports using Google Page Speed Insights for really any other website that’s publicly accessible. From there, we can compare our results to their results to see how we’re doing.
- How does knowing this tech info help your users?
- Rajib: Meetup’s been around for 20 years, and at different times Meetup’s technology needed a refresh. We know that it suffered from a lot of legacy applications or architecture. The point of us over-sharing on all of these things is to be completely transparent on how we’re shaping things, how we’re moving things, how they’ve evolved, and how we continue to make sure that it stays on focused to evolve. So we want to make sure that this information is available to our members and organizers.
- Are you still going to support and improve the desktop application?
- Justin: Absolutely. Overall, we have more app users, but we still want to support web users. We’re all part of the same product base and community, so there’s going to be full support going forward, whether it be mobile web or desktop web in addition to our apps. There are certain features we sometimes launch in the apps first, but we’ll continue to evaluate and see that things also fit on a desktop and mobile web as well.
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Last modified on July 1, 2022
