HTTP/2 is Here, Let's Optimize!

Ilya Grigorik·2015·Velocity·47 min

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Ilya Grigorik explains what HTTP/2 actually changes on the wire — multiplexing, prioritisation, server push — and which old optimisations you should stop doing.

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Linux Performance Tools

Brendan Gregg·2015·Velocity

Brendan Gregg's tour of the Linux observability toolbox — what each tool measures, when to reach for it, and a methodology for going from 'it's slow' to a real answer.

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30 min

How Complex Systems Fail

RCRichard Cook·2012·Velocity

Richard Cook unpacks his classic essay live: there is no root cause, safety is something people continuously create, and catastrophe is the alignment of many small latent failures.

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40 min

Rich Harris on frameworks, the web, and the edge

Rich Harris·2023·Svelte Society NYC

Harris revisits the SPA-vs-MPA argument through the lens of edge runtimes — and pushes back on the idea that SSR-everywhere is a victory for users.

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30 min

Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web?

Rich Harris·2021·Jamstack Conf

Rich Harris pushes back on the SPA-vs-MPA dichotomy and sketches transitional apps — server-rendered, JS-enhanced, and progressively interactive.

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30 min

Rethinking Reactivity

Rich Harris·2019·You Gotta Love Frontend

Rich Harris introduces Svelte 3 and argues that reactivity belongs in the compiler, not the runtime — the talk that crystallised the case for disappearing frameworks.

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28 min

The Main Thread is Overworked & Underpaid

Surma·2019·Chrome Dev Summit

Surma makes the case that the web is the only platform that still pretends threads do not exist — and shows how to move work off the main thread with workers.

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