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Seth Walker
October 15, 2013
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A Public Commitment to Performance
Presented at Velocity 2013 NYC.
Seth Walker
October 15, 2013
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Transcript
A Public Commitment to Performance One weird trick to kickstart
a performance culture Velocity NYC October 15, 2013
@sethwalker
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http://bit.ly/performanceculture
Who is responsible for performance?
None
You need a performance culture
Changing culture is hard
One weird trick
Etsy -2years
What we had
What we wanted
Weather report
None
Choosing metrics
Key pages
95th percentile backend
Weekday
or whatever...
Keep it simple
You can change it later
You can change it later
You will change it later
Get your tools in place
Can you measure it?
Repeatable?
None
Woah, embarrassing
It's not as private as you might think
This motivates your team to get better
Consider your audience(s)
Community Engineering Team Velocity
Woah, embarrassing
Numbers are boring
None
Graphs are awesome
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Celebrate wins
Performance is invisible
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None
None
Ongoing context
Context for regressions
None
Iterate
Graphs are awesome
None
What's next
One weird trick
Take the long view
A note about privilege
"I love, love, love the latest performance report -- the
report itself, not just the great numbers." - Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson
Tell them I said it is all good.
Now, you share
Questions? http://bit.ly/performanceculture @sethwalker