Chasing Waterfalls
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 2 ratingsConversations with the people working to make the web faster for everyone, hosted by Tim Kadlec.
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Episodes
Undergoing a Performance Transformation with Sharell Bryant
June 17, 2020 17:34 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBRarely do we get to start with a fresh slate when it comes to performance, more often, we have to figure out how to make a performance transformation after the fact. In this episode, Sharell Bryant talks about Teachers Pay Teachers journey to a performance-focused organization. Luckily there were people in the company who had kind of had similar experiences in terms of being able and having the freedom to like run an A/B test where maybe it's not a product change, it's just a perfo...
Reaching the Entire UK with Matt Hobbs
April 30, 2020 16:31 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBPerformance is always important, but that's especially true for anyone providing essential services over a wide range of connections and devices. In this episode, Matt Hobbs talks about the challenges of building sites that perform well for the entirety of the UK. Everything that we do in terms of accessibility, in terms of web performance, in terms of content design, we have to be catering to the largest number of people possible because one thing that we can't, we can't just say,...
Dealing with Third Parties with Karolina Szczur
February 06, 2020 15:16 - 53 minutes - 43 MBYou can do all the work to make your own code as fast as possible, but a few ill-performing third-party scripts can still bring your site to a crawl. In this episode, Karolina Szczur talks all about third-parties: how big of an issue they really how, how to identify which ones are the most problematic, and what you can do about it. So it's not necessarily a binary choice—in some cases, sure. But there are strategies that you can use to mitigate that performance that you just have t...
Performance for the Long-Haul with Katie Hempenius
December 19, 2019 18:11 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBA lot of work falls under the umbrella of "web performance" and it's hard to know where to focus, both for quick wins and for long-term maintainability. In this episode, Katie Hempenius talks about everything from JavaScript and image weight, to third-party challenges, budgets and the importance of organizational support. Now maybe your first party site is actually pretty decent and is holding the line but you keep getting push back from marketing to just keep adding more third par...
From Hackathon to Foundational Performance with Reefath Rajali
October 14, 2019 15:48 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBMany people want their organization to prioritize performance, but where do you start? In this episode, Reefath Rajali, a mobile developer advocate at PayPal, talks about PayPal's performance journey, starting with a simple, lightweight prototype built during a hackathon. So, that is how this journey actually started and as you said, it was not an easy journey. We had a lot of challenges. Because it is a larger organization and to transform a hackathon idea into action, there are a...
Scaling a Culture of Performance with Malek Hakim
September 26, 2019 15:55 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBHow do you not only establish a culture of performance, but nurture it and scale it across a large organization? That's the question we try to answer in this week's discussion with Malek Hakim, a performance engineer at Priceline. We talk about what Priceline has been doing to cement a culture of performance across the organization, touching on everything from tooling and metrics, to education and experimentation. We started small at first. We were actually working on trying to fin...
Introducing Chasing Waterfalls
September 18, 2019 15:11 - 2 minutes - 2.14 MBWelcome to Chasing Waterfalls, a podcast featuring conversations with the people working to make the web faster for everyone. Every two weeks, a new episode will drop exploring how different people and organizations are approaching web performance, from a technical, organizational and cultural perspective. In this trailer, Tim introduces the podcast and provides a sneak peek at some of the upcoming episodes.