Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

A Public Commitment to Performance

Avatar for Seth Walker Seth Walker
October 15, 2013
Technology
0
3.7k

A Public Commitment to Performance

Presented at Velocity 2013 NYC.

Avatar for Seth Walker

Seth Walker

October 15, 2013
Tweet

More Decks by Seth Walker

See All by Seth Walker
Performance and Maintainability with Continuous Experimentation
Avatar for Seth Walker sethwalker
2
1.3k

Other Decks in Technology

See All in Technology
ABEMAにおける 生成AI活用の現在地 / The Current Status of Generative AI at ABEMA
Avatar for Yuji Hato dekatotoro
0
620
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore でプロモーション用動画生成エージェントを開発する
Avatar for Kiminori Yokoi nasuvitz
6
380
datadog-distribution-of-opentelemetry-collector-intro
Avatar for tetsuya28 tetsuya28
0
240
株式会社ARAV 採用案内
Avatar for ARAV maqui
0
230
Yahoo!広告ビジネス基盤におけるバックエンド開発
Avatar for LINEヤフーTech (LY Corporation Tech) lycorptech_jp
PRO
1
220
MySQL HeatWave：サービス概要のご紹介
Avatar for oracle4engineer oracle4engineer
PRO
4
1.6k
イオン店舗一覧ページのパフォーマンスチューニング事例 / Performance tuning example for AEON store list page
Avatar for AEON aeonpeople
1
180
Observability for LLM Application lifecycle
Avatar for 株式会社IVRy（社員登壇資料） ivry_presentationmaterials
1
230
なごミュ@SPAJAM2025 第二回予選
Avatar for drama 1901drama
0
120
新卒(ほぼ)専業Kagglerという選択肢
Avatar for Ryota nocchi1
1
1.8k
ECS モニタリング手法大整理
Avatar for Yu Endo yendoooo
1
120
AIは変更差分からユニットテスト_結合テスト_システムテストでテストすべきことが出せるのか？
Avatar for Matsu mineo_matsuya
5
3.2k

Featured

See All Featured
Agile that works and the tools we love
Avatar for Rasmus Luckow-Nielsen rasmusluckow
329
21k
Documentation Writing (for coders)
Avatar for Carmen Chung carmenintech
73
5k
Rails Girls Zürich Keynote
Avatar for Gregor Martynus gr2m
95
14k
Thoughts on Productivity
Avatar for Jon Yablonski jonyablonski
69
4.8k
The Cost Of JavaScript in 2023
Avatar for Addy Osmani addyosmani
53
8.8k
10 Git Anti Patterns You Should be Aware of
Avatar for Lemi Orhan Ergin lemiorhan
PRO
656
61k
Refactoring Trust on Your Teams (GOTO; Chicago 2020)
Avatar for Rebecca Miller-Webster rmw
34
3.1k
Navigating Team Friction
Avatar for Lara Hogan lara
188
15k
Bash Introduction
Avatar for André Augusto Costa Santos 62gerente
614
210k
Chrome DevTools: State of the Union 2024 - Debugging React & Beyond
Avatar for Addy Osmani addyosmani
7
820
Six Lessons from altMBA
Avatar for Skipper Chong Warson skipperchong
28
4k
Building Adaptive Systems
Avatar for Chris Keathley keathley
43
2.7k

Transcript

  1. A Public Commitment to Performance One weird trick to kickstart

    a performance culture Velocity NYC October 15, 2013

  2. @sethwalker

  3. None

  4. http://bit.ly/performanceculture

  5. Who is responsible for performance?

  6. None

  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

  14. None

  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?

  27. None

  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

  35. None

  36. Graphs are awesome

  37. None

  38. Celebrate wins

  39. Performance is invisible

  40. None
  41. None
  42. None

  43. Ongoing context

  44. Context for regressions

  45. None

  46. Iterate

  47. Graphs are awesome

  48. None

  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