Serving the World with the Web

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Walmart.com describes moving from platform work into product teams, shipping a mobile website and now reworking the desktop site, running Node and custom frameworks, choosing Stylus for CSS, and experimenting with Polymer/blink to push web components into older browsers. Engineering focuses on latency (aiming for <0.1s feel, 1s perception), localStorage/caching, WebSockets and GPU acceleration, continuous deploy and rapid experiments, and UX principles like loss aversion to avoid data loss and keep users in flow.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:48Gui Tool Kits
3. 3:33Hibernate
4. 6:11Stack Overflow
5. 10:01Web Components
6. 11:32The Mother of all Demos
7. 13:56Three Mile Island
8. 14:57Lean Ux
9. 18:05Universal Psychological Facts
10. 18:20Loss Aversion
11. 21:10Flow State

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