Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

A Public Commitment to Performance

Sponsored · Ship Features Fearlessly Turn features on and off without deploys. Used by thousands of Ruby developers. →
Avatar for Seth Walker Seth Walker
October 15, 2013
Technology
3.7k
0

A Public Commitment to Performance

Presented at Velocity 2013 NYC.

Avatar for Seth Walker

Seth Walker

October 15, 2013

More Decks by Seth Walker

See All by Seth Walker
Performance and Maintainability with Continuous Experimentation
Avatar for Seth Walker sethwalker
2
1.3k

Other Decks in Technology

See All in Technology
Bet AI Day 2026丨Agentは、「金融」という巨大産業の何を変えられるのか
Avatar for LayerX layerx
PRO
0
630
AIとペアプロを始める。人とのペアプロをやめる。ペアプロの良さを改めて知る。もっと好きになった。 / Rediscovering Pair Programming
Avatar for yuki honyanya
1
140
Claude Codeで開発以外の業務も爆速化しよう！
Avatar for みのるん minorun365
PRO
12
9.6k
現場に行くだけでは足りない——プロダクトエンジニアが業務の流れを捉える観点と、その鍛え方
Avatar for 匠技研工業株式会社 / Takumi Engineering, inc. takumiengineering
0
180
振り返りこそエンジニアの本領
Avatar for Negima negima
0
230
データエンジニアリングワークショップ：Auto LoaderとSparkで学ぶデータパイプライン構築
Avatar for Databricks Japan databricksjapan
PRO
0
120
Bet AI Day 2026丨Production-Ready AI Agents — エンタープライズの実務を任せるための設計と運用
Avatar for LayerX layerx
PRO
3
1.9k
[DroidKaigi 2026] Making UI specifications visible: Android UI development in the AI agent era supported by Compose Screenshot Testing and galleries
Avatar for syarihu syarihu
0
490
[RSJ26] Building a VLA Model Based on Self-Distilled Classification
Avatar for Semantic Machine Intelligence Lab., Keio Univ. keio_smilab
PRO
0
180
『止めない』を設計する — 制約の中で、事業の根幹を支える判断
Avatar for Terry hiroyaterui
0
110
Azure Cost Management の FOCUS コストデータを迷わず読むための“3つの軸”
Avatar for Tetsuya Odashima tetsuyaooooo
0
120
AIで開発は速くなったのに、なぜ現場は楽にならないのか 〜あなたの組織のボトルネックを突き止めるワークショップ〜
Avatar for Kazuto Kusama jacopen
1
230

Featured

See All Featured
Code Review Best Practice
Avatar for Trisha Gee trishagee
74
20k
Build your cross-platform service in a week with App Engine
Avatar for Jose L jlugia
234
19k
Tell your own story through comics
Avatar for letsgokoyo letsgokoyo
1
1.1k
My Coaching Mixtape
Avatar for mlcsv mlcsv
0
300
Music & Morning Musume
Avatar for Bryan Veloso bryan
47
7.4k
DBのスキルで生き残る技術 - AI時代におけるテーブル設計の勘所
Avatar for soudai sone soudai
PRO
68
57k
Evolution of real-time – Irina Nazarova, EuRuKo, 2024
Avatar for Irina Nazarova irinanazarova
9
1.5k
Leo the Paperboy
Avatar for Maya Tellez mayatellez
8
2.2k
sira's awesome portfolio website redesign presentation
Avatar for ElsiraPls elsirapls
0
390
Ethics towards AI in product and experience design
Avatar for Skipper Chong Warson skipperchong
2
360
Test your architecture with Archunit
Avatar for Yoan thirion
2
2.4k
Future Trends and Review - Lecture 12 - Web Technologies (1019888BNR)
Avatar for Beat Signer signer
PRO
0
3.7k

Transcript

  1. A Public Commitment to Performance One weird trick to kickstart

    a performance culture Velocity NYC October 15, 2013

  2. @sethwalker

  3. None

  4. http://bit.ly/performanceculture

  5. Who is responsible for performance?

  6. None

  7. You need a performance culture

  8. Changing culture is hard

  9. One weird trick

  10. Etsy -2years

  11. What we had

  12. What we wanted

  13. Weather report

  14. None

  15. Choosing metrics

  16. Key pages

  17. 95th percentile backend

  18. Weekday

  19. or whatever...

  20. Keep it simple

  21. You can change it later

  22. You can change it later

  23. You will change it later

  24. Get your tools in place

  25. Can you measure it?

  26. Repeatable?

  27. None

  28. Woah, embarrassing

  29. It's not as private as you might think

  30. This motivates your team to get better

  31. Consider your audience(s)

  32. Community Engineering Team Velocity

  33. Woah, embarrassing

  34. Numbers are boring

  35. None

  36. Graphs are awesome

  37. None

  38. Celebrate wins

  39. Performance is invisible

  40. None
  41. None
  42. None

  43. Ongoing context

  44. Context for regressions

  45. None

  46. Iterate

  47. Graphs are awesome

  48. None

  49. What's next

  50. One weird trick

  51. Take the long view

  52. A note about privilege

  53. "I love, love, love the latest performance report -- the

    report itself, not just the great numbers." - Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson

  54. Tell them I said it is all good.

  55. Now, you share

  56. Questions? http://bit.ly/performanceculture @sethwalker