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l a r a h o g a n . me / c u l t u r e / @l a r a _ h o g a n

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Engineering Teams at Etsy • Feature Teams • Listing page • Seller tools • Checkout • Infrastructure Teams • Performance • Data engineering • Autobots (testing)

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Engineering Teams at Etsy • Infrastructure Teams • Performance • Data engineering • Autobots (testing) • Feature Teams • Listing page • Seller tools • Checkout

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• Feature Teams • Listing page • Seller tools • Checkout • Mobile Web spun

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User agent sniffer delivers different templates

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No mobile subdomain

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One team was responsible for mobilizing everything

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Worked okay... for a while.

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Everyone hates duplicate code templates/! templates/mobile/ assets/js/! assets/js/mobile/ assets/css/! assets/css/mobile/

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We began to explore native development

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“Everyone at Etsy should be doing mobile”

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... so then no more mobile web work happened for a year.

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It was a large technical hurdle

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Device sizes and operating systems grew more fragmented

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mobile web caring shipping teaching }

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Options

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1. Give up

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Source: StatCounter Global Stats, 6/14 % of Internet Traffic

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1. Give up 2. Appoint mobile web cops/janitors

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In 2013, we appointed a new Mobile Web Team...

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... but feature teams know how their feature should work on mobile.

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1. Give up 2. Appoint mobile web cops/janitors 3. Implement technical solutions

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We built tools to make it easy to mobilize features...

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... but feature teams still weren’t mobilizing anything.

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1. Give up 2. Appoint mobile web cops/janitors 3. Implement technical solutions 4. Enact culture change

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We were trying to solve a cultural problem with just technology.

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• Infrastructure Teams • Performance • Data engineering • Autobots (testing) • Mobile Web • Feature Teams • Listing page • Seller tools • Checkout

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• Infrastructure Teams • Data engineering • Autobots (testing) • Mobile Web got

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Mobile Web’s parallel universe: Performance at Etsy

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Educated coworkers

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clear

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+160kb

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Incentivized coworkers

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whoa!

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Developers fixed it

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whoa,

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Performance hero

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Performance hero

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Empowered coworkers

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People began to do performance caring shipping teaching }

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stan: hey bucky perf just jumped with this deploy bucky: looking now stan stan: dashboards.etsycorp.com/ deploy.php#pageperf...

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Yash: great catch stan, thanks for vigilance ross: thanks for seeing something & saying something bucky: stan

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None of these people are on the performance team.

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Solving mobile web’s culture problem

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Educating coworkers

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Lunch & Learn: Mobile Web Performance

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Workshop: How to Test on Mobile

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Lunch & Learn: Designing for Touch

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Incentivizing coworkers

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Mobile Web Hack Week

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Empowering coworkers

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“We are a mobile-first company.” - Chad Dickerson, Etsy CEO in a company meeting

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Feature teams began to care, ship, and teach

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“Remember this win on desktop, where we added some light copy changes and saw a lift in conversion? As promised, we're running this experiment on mobile web...” (actual

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“Does this work on mobile? Absolutely! ... We found that a one-template approach for this page was much better for both user experience and operational overhead...” (another

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“...we’ve mobilized the Interactions feature in the Activity Feed, which wasn’t previously mobilized.” (yet

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These are our success metrics. caring shipping teaching }

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Which of these are you missing? caring shipping teaching }

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culture technology &

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culture technology &