Avoiding web performance regression
By Marcel Duran (@marcelduran)
Works on the #web-core team at twitter.
Check out #flight
Problem: After a new release, apps get slower sometimes…
Monitoring is a reactive solution to solve performance issues.
Tools used: http archive (har) for yslow, yslow, cuzillion, fiddler, showslow
Har’s can be generated by- fiddler, phantomjs, yslow,
Install yslow locally (needs nodejs)
Ci and cd at yahoo
Crazy amounts of tests but no performance tests…
Phantomjs is a simple repeatable way to test web page performance times amongst other things.
Make performance tests a part of your ci process….
Next up: instead of just having perf tests in your ci process, graduate to a new level by measuring custom metrics on each performance run…
Peregrine is a tool used in twitter based on webpagetest
Peregrine takes code and deploys to performance boxes and integrates with webpagetest to run perf tests.
Peregrin will likely be open sourced soon..
