The Web Performance Today podcast is a weekly series of interviews with the innovators and thought leaders who are driving our industry. If you have feedback or suggestions for a future topic or interview subject, email me at podcast@strangeloopnetworks.com.
26 Apr 2013
As a former senior software engineer at Walmart Labs, Aaron Kulick has been in the enviable position of being able to pioneer what Walmart is doing with its big data strategy. He and Joshua talked about what it's like working with bigger and bigger data sets, the long term utility of big data and whether or not there's much room left for innovation and learning on the RUM journey.
11 Apr 2013
In this week's podcast, Joshua welcomes his favourite tech blogger, Lori MacVittie, who's probably forgotten more about web performance than most of us ever knew. Lori talks about her path from technology editor to application delivery evangelist, the wild west of standards around metrics, and why she loves the smell of melted motherboards in the morning.
14 Mar 2013
Mike Belshe is the guy who took on the huge job of making the web faster when he was at Google, and actually won by creating the SPDY protocol. Now, Mike sits at the helm of Twist, a mobile app that could revolutionize the way we say "I'm on my way!" Mike talked with Joshua about Twist, SPDY, and the inner workings of the IETF.
7 Mar 2013
This week's guest is one of the pioneers in proving the business benefits of performance. Several years back, while working at Shopzilla, Tim Morrow presented one of the earliest public case studies proving the link between page speed and business metrics. Now at Betfair, he's leading the charge in creating customer-facing service level agreements for performance. In this week's podcast, Tim and Joshua talk about third-party scripts, tag management, Betfair's exciting new product release, and the pitfalls of betting on Beyonce.
28 Feb 2013
Joshua Marantz is a key mover and shaker at Google, with PageSpeed, mod_pagespeed, and a host of other cool projects. In this week's podcast, he talks about a number of pressing issues: how to handle concerns about FEO and site breakage, whether or not browsers and servers will ever take on FEO as an automatic function, and why the performance industry is inundated with people named Joshua.
21 Feb 2013
As co-founder of Turbobytes, Aaron Peters is doing some extremely innovative stuff on the CDN front. He and Joshua talk about why all CDNs aren't equal all the time, why the upcoming new resource timings API is going to be awesome, and why so many web shops still need to get their performance basics right.
14 Feb 2013
In this week's podcast, Joshua talks with Torbit CEO Josh Fraser about discovering the performance path, how performance has changed from a technical metric to a business metric, advice for young entrepreneurs, and tech predictions for 2013. (Edited on 01/02/2013.)
31 Jan 2013
Not only is Lonely Planet an excellent online resource for travellers, they also take performance very, very seriously. In this week's podcast, Joshua talks with Mark Jennings, Technical Operations Manager at Lonely Planet Online, about how to sell performance within your own company, Lonely Planet's phenomenal growth in mobile traffic, and the secret of not just making your pages fast, but keeping them fast.
24 Jan 2013
As a cornerstone of the Make the Web Fast team at Google, what Ilya Grigorik doesn't know about web performance probably isn't worth knowing. In this week's podcast, he and Joshua talk about why big CDNs need to adopt SPDY, how mobile is the next big frontier for Google, and what it's like sharing an office with Steve Souders.
17 Jan 2013
Eric Goldsmith is a pioneer in the field of data mining and has been analyzing big data from the AOL website for nearly a decade. This week, Joshua talks with Eric about the original days of WebPagetest, why we have to think like data scientists, and how the RUM business has changed in the past seven years.
