Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Front-End Ops - jQuery Conf Chicago 2014
Search
Sponsored
·
Ship Features Fearlessly
Turn features on and off without deploys. Used by thousands of Ruby developers.
→
Alex Sexton
September 13, 2014
Technology
1
1k
Front-End Ops - jQuery Conf Chicago 2014
Alex Sexton
September 13, 2014
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Alex Sexton
See All by Alex Sexton
Your Very Own Component Library
slexaxton
5
750
Hacking Front-End Apps
slexaxton
3
2.5k
Practicing Safe Script
slexaxton
18
2.9k
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
スピンアウト講座03_CLAUDE-MDとSKILL-MD
overflowinc
0
1.2k
Agent Skill 是什麼?對軟體產業帶來的變化
appleboy
0
220
20年以上続く PHP 大規模プロダクトを Kubernetes へ ── クラウド基盤刷新プロジェクトの4年間
oogfranz
PRO
0
170
Phase08_クイックウィン実装
overflowinc
0
1.6k
新規事業×QAの挑戦:不確実性を乗りこなす!フェーズごとに求められるQAの役割変革
hacomono
PRO
0
180
SSoT(Single Source of Truth)で「壊して再生」する設計
kawauso
2
320
Astro Islandsの 内部実装を 「日本で一番わかりやすく」 ざっくり解説!
knj
1
240
Physical AI on AWS リファレンスアーキテクチャ / Physical AI on AWS Reference Architecture
aws_shota
1
120
AI時代のIssue駆動開発のススメ
moongift
PRO
0
150
スピンアウト講座06_認証系(API-OAuth-MCP)入門
overflowinc
0
1.1k
Laravelで学ぶOAuthとOpenID Connectの基礎と実装
kyoshidaxx
4
1.8k
事例から紐解くSHIFT流QA支援 ~大規模プロジェクトの品質管理支援、QA組織立ち上げ~ / 20260320 Nozomu Koketsu
shift_evolve
PRO
0
140
Featured
See All Featured
Context Engineering - Making Every Token Count
addyosmani
9
770
Digital Projects Gone Horribly Wrong (And the UX Pros Who Still Save the Day) - Dean Schuster
uxyall
0
820
A Soul's Torment
seathinner
5
2.5k
The Limits of Empathy - UXLibs8
cassininazir
1
270
HDC tutorial
michielstock
1
580
ラッコキーワード サービス紹介資料
rakko
1
2.7M
Site-Speed That Sticks
csswizardry
13
1.1k
Sharpening the Axe: The Primacy of Toolmaking
bcantrill
46
2.7k
Evolution of real-time – Irina Nazarova, EuRuKo, 2024
irinanazarova
9
1.2k
Getting science done with accelerated Python computing platforms
jacobtomlinson
2
150
For a Future-Friendly Web
brad_frost
183
10k
Product Roadmaps are Hard
iamctodd
PRO
55
12k
Transcript
Front-End Ops Alex Sexton | 2014
None
A little under a year later…
None
Naming Things #hardCSproblems
Regressive Enhancement
Polyfill
Prollyfill
None
None
Parlayfill
Mollyfill
ANYWAYS
Front-End Ops Alex Sexton | 2014
FEO
UGLY (in spanish)
FeOps
None
Iron Ops catchy
I pay the Iron Price for lower latency
What is Front-End Ops?
None
“Some weird terms you invented to describe things that don’t
exist.” - John Edgar, Digital Ocean
None
First Of All
More Importantly…
That’s the whole point.
Serving webpages is really hard.
that’s why we have conferences for this stuff (jQConf, FEOpsConf)
Conferences That Don’t Exist
HTML &ENTITY; CONF
SundayMorningConf
Front-End Ops is the collection of things you can do
to make serving webpages easier. opposite of harder
So you can focus on your product.
None
Mature FEOps benefits the people who don’t have time to
think about this stuff.
Lots of folks agree!
So really what is it?
The App Everything Else
The App Everything Else FEOps™
Article Recap
“Front-End Ops Engineers are the bridge between an application’s intent
and an application’s reality”
Why?
We’re collectively insane.
None
Why now?
Application logic is being deferred to the client side.
Performance Testing
Error Logging
Lifecycle Logging
Measurement over time
A Front-End Ops Engineer enables long-term progress
Performance is the foundation on which user experience is built.
A UX in the DOM is worth two on the
wire.
Speed is the metric that we measure by.
Speed of app.
Speed of tools.
Speed of development.
None
(all of these can be measured and tracked)
(all of these can be measured and tracked) ((but it’s
important to read the data right))
Speed of app.
Speed up your app In 5 Simple Steps How To
Step 1 forget everything you know because it’s wrong
Step 2 it’s probably the network
Step 3 Probably Read Ilya’s book
Step 4 measure
Step 5 measure
1) Forget everything 2) It’s probably the network 3) Ilya’s
book 4) Measure 5) Measure Recap
Chrome DevTools Flame Graphs, CPU Profiles, and Repaints/Reflows info are
invaluable.
The limiting factor of your system should be the speed
of light. Assuming you have Fiber
0 50 100 150 200 THEORETICAL GRAPHS
OS X Android iOS Blackberry 1200ms 0ms
1200ms 0ms
1200ms 0ms
Distribution of Load Time
Desktop Mobile
Two distinct loading curves
What you see when you add them together.
ಠ_ಠ
Measurement
Measurement
If I had to pick one part that was most
important to FEOps, it’d be all of it
but #2 would be MEASUREMENT
Measure twice. Optimize once.
Make a dashboard.
Things you can put in a dashboard
Speed Index Over Time
Speed Index Over Time And then draw lines where commits
happen.
Speed Index Over Time And then draw lines where commits
happen. And then link to the diff between tests
image is of speedcurve.com
Things you can put in a dashboard
Page Weight Over Time
Page Weight Over Time gzipped/ungzipped
Page Weight Over Time gzipped/ungzipped Broken down by filetype
Requests Over Time 0E+00 2.5E+01 5E+01 7.5E+01 1E+02
Errors There are lots of great companies that will help
you do this these days.
Build Time Over Time
Speed of tools. usually build
Rule #1
The time between making a change, and seeing it in
your app must approach 0.
Rule #2
Never do anything twice.
AKA “Cache Everything”
(feel free to do two things at the same time
though)
Speed of development.
Speed of development. AKA Developer Happiness
Spare no expense.
Take the time to make source maps work.
There should be one easy command to get everything to
work.
There should be one easy command to get everything to
work. Vagrant can help with environments
Turn on LiveReload
Implement Lifecycle Logging
Set a calendar reminder to update your dependencies
Have a rigorous Style Guide that everyone follows, and that
robots yell about. Lint!
If we take care to build robust tools around these
FEOps ideals, ! developers will need to master less, and will be able to focus on users more.
None
Let’s make fast, measurement driven, easily-maintained web applications the starting
point.
Thanks @slexaxton