Web Performance, Why it Really Matters
summary
66% of internet traffic was IP video in 2013 and is projected to hit 79% by 2018 with CDNs carrying over half of video traffic, so the team converts expected end‑users into bandwidth needs and scaled network terabytes in months to handle World Cup loads. Traffic distribution, path analysis, custom HTTP rules, cache optimizations, prefetching and origin shields are applied per customer. Operational steps include daily war rooms, doubling on‑call and ghostfish production replay, plus route DNS shutdown of saturated POPs.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:16Why worry about web performance?
- 1:14The challenge
- 1:53Cont. Step 1 Data, Data, Data
- 2:35A well oiled machine
- 3:33Monitor, rinse, repeat
- 4:02Lean on me
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