Undergoing a Performance Transformation with Sharell Bryant

06/17/20 • 41 min

Rarely do we get to start with a fresh slate when it comes to performance, more often, we have to figure out how to make a performance transformation after the fact. In this episode, Sharell Bryant talks about Teachers Pay Teachers journey to a performance-focused organization.

Luckily there were people in the company who had kind of had similar experiences in terms of being able and having the freedom to like run an A/B test where maybe it's not a product change, it's just a performance optimization change and being able to see like test out whether that improved various metrics. I was able to do that and felt empowered to do that. Especially when we are looking for different opportunities for how to improve the experience. If I can say, "Hey, I can make a quick performance change and let's just see if it affects these other metrics and you know, it won't involve design, it won't involve product and it'll take this much resourcing and then we'll measure it", I think was a great way to kind of advocate at first and loop it into another objective.

A full transcript is available at: https://chasingwaterfalls.io/episodes/episode-six-with-sharell-bryant/

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A full transcript is available at: https://chasingwaterfalls.io/episodes/episode-six-with-sharell-bryant/

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Reaching the Entire UK with Matt Hobbs

Performance is always important, but that's especially true for anyone providing essential services over a wide range of connections and devices. In this episode, Matt Hobbs talks about the challenges of building sites that perform well for the entirety of the UK.

Everything that we do in terms of accessibility, in terms of web performance, in terms of content design, we have to be catering to the largest number of people possible because one thing that we can't, we can't just say, well we're not going to support X or you're not going to support Y. Because in doing so we may just be excluding a certain demographic of the UK.

A full transcript is available at: https://chasingwaterfalls.io/episodes/episode-five-with-matt-hobbs/