A Public Commitment to Performance

Presented at Velocity 2013 NYC.

1. A Public Commitment to Performance One weird trick to kickstart a performance culture Velocity NYC October 15, 2013
2. @sethwalker
4. http://bit.ly/performanceculture
5. Who is responsible for performance?
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
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?
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
36. Graphs are awesome
38. Celebrate wins
39. Performance is invisible
43. Ongoing context
44. Context for regressions
46. Iterate
47. Graphs are awesome
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