London tech business event: devil in the DevOps: performance in the cloud

Two tech thought-leaders zoom out to show how to achieve big performance wins in the cloud! These fascinating talks will speak to commerciad and technology interests alike.
We spend much of our lives in the cloud: the collection of hosted applications and infrastructure that power our mobile, online lives. And yet much of our time there is still spent twiddling our thumbs, waiting. Why? How are obvious performance gains being missed by some of the smartest dev brains on the planet? We reveal some simple, but powerful, answers.
This evening is by no means for techies only; the talks will appeal to all levels of technical expertise and are geared towards the real-world business implications of the cloud in 2019.
Please stay for a glass of wine and some nibbles afterwards!
1/ Nick Mailer: Performance pitfalls and possibilities: optimising cloud for the real world
Big, faster, wider: everyone’s chasing performance in the cloud; but too often, we can end up chasing our own tails.
Sometimes DevOps culture gets lost in the weeds, where it cannot see the wood for the trees when it comes to performance gains.
This talk shows how we can zoom out, and find big performance wins before we start sweating the small stuff. Sometimes, a solution to performance requires technical ingenuity.
At other times, just a simple pull in business focus. Nick distils two decades of performance-wrangling into a 20 minute tour of best practice, telling examples and take-home points that will save aeons of cumulative wasted time, energy and resources in the cloud!
2/ Chris Simmance: Website Obesity Kills: The Under2 diet for more conversions and visibility
With storage never being cheaper and compression and caching options up to your eyeballs there has never been a better reason to have a fast loading website. Unfortunately, instead, the world’s web experiences are getting slower and more frustrating.
Website obesity is an epidemic and needs to be stopped at its source… The planning and development stage.
It’s really easy to build a site in 2019 it seems it’s hard to care enough to build one properly. In this talk you’ll find out not only how to tell if your website is obese but also how to put it on a diet that really works. No crazy pills or soups, just smart and sometimes unconventional planning and coding practices that get results. We’ll run through some cool tools that help identify issues as well as some to avoid no matter how much you might like them.
About the speakers:
Positive founder and Global CTO, Nick Mailer, is an industry veteran. He has spent over two decades innovating the technologies that now form the basis of global e-commerce and cloud computing.
In the 1990’s, Mailer co-authored the first Internet–in–education book to be published in the UK and ran a number of early tech conferences introducing the power of the Internet to educators and contributed to the Times Education Supplement.
As well as his business leadership, Mailer is an accomplished software engineer, who believes that it is vitally important for senior technical leaders to continue at the coalface.
Mailer continues to publish academic works about technology and philosophy - the area in which he trained. A much in-demand speaker, he speaks at conferences around the world.
Chris Simmance is the Chairman and Founder of Optus Digital and Under2. The companies provide both SEO and PPC services as well as wicked fast loading web builds that get users hearts pumping.
Chris is pretty much self taught and started working in SEO from a small local agency through to a multinational before deciding to “go it alone”. 5 years later and 2 regional offices and he’s winning work from some well known established high street brands.
Chris speaks at the biggest and best digital marketing and business conferences across the globe on the power of great Digital Marketing strategies and the incredible value of building a better web.