03. Building Crazy Fast Web Applications w/ Manish Shekhawat X_Change

This episode is hosted by AnuRock. Today we are joined by Manish to talk about performance. Manish is a Senior Architect Experience Technology. He is currently part of a digital transformation project in retail domain for an Australian client through an omni-channel solution to improve time of market of features across brands and channels in both B2B and B2C market space.

He joins us to talk about performance, an often ignored topic in web development but one that has the potential to make or break your business.



Topics:


Why is it important to make a website fast?
Business/revenue impact
User engagement/retention
Customer acquisition
Perceived vs. actual user experience
Google WebVitals
How does one make their website fast?
Culture, mindset, shift-left
Platform/framework level optimizations
JS/CSS/Markup optimization
Third parties
Framework specific Issues and optimization – React, routing etc.
Server side improvement during SSR
Caching Strategies – redis, node in-memory
CDN
Tools to measure performance: Lighthouse, WebPageTest, JMeter/Load Runner, Gatling
Important metrics: LCP, TBT, CLS
Lab vs. field data testing
Reference web applications



Side Bytes:


What the Buddha Taught (a book by Walpola Rahula Thero)
The Psychology of Money (a book by Morgan Housel)
Family Man (web series)
Sport season (Euro Cup, French Open, Wimbledon)