We don't make mistakes
summary
Claim: creative side projects yield practical fixes for large services. Describes shipping a profile card to 100M users from a mono‑repo of 80 packages into 25 workloads, running SRE shield rotation and root‑cause analyses. Shows building a live visual using CSS 3D and canvas—actually a 1 kilobyte demo with 256‑byte music—and diagnosing that canvas text calls eat CPU (about 80% time spent in canvas fillText), then restoring speed by pre‑rendering a canvas glyph atlas so the effect works.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 1:35Engineering at scale
- 6:19The art of demoscene
- 11:53Inspiring the next generation
- 15:39Live coding demonstration
- 43:25Bridging play and professional
related talks
13mSpeed at Scale: Optimizing The Largest CX Platform Out There
34mHow to build front-end web apps that scale
36mFront-end lightning talks
23mShares Top Tips for Building Supercharged Web Applications Today!
29mDesigning very large JavaScript applications
08h 57mReact Miami 2024 (replay)
25mSpeed at Scale: Optimizing The Largest CX Platform Out There
27mSmooth Moves: Rendering at the Speed of Right ®