Solving the Web Performance Crisis (Nolan Lawson)

Adapted from an internal Microsoft event – presented by Nolan Lawson. Please note there’s a minor error where Nolan says 2000s and meant 2010s. He deeply regrets the error (a)

The slides for this presentation are available here.

Recent research by DoubleClick shows that 53% of mobile sites are abandoned if they take longer than 3 seconds to load, and that the average load time on 3G is 19 seconds. Worse, a report by TwinPrime shows that mobile networks aren’t always improving – in the U.S., LTE speeds actually decreased 50% in the past year. In this talk, I’ll analyze the web performance crisis and show how we can combat it by using the latest advances in web tooling, as well as dusting off some forgotten best practices from our industry’s past.

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Kubernetes Support in Azure Container Services | Azure Friday

In this episode of Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman is joined by Brendan Burns (Partner Architect, at Microsoft & Kubernetes co-founder) to talk about containers and support for Kubernetes orchestration in Azure Container Services. Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

As Brendan wrote in his blog post on Kubernetes.io, Bringing Kubernetes Support to Azure Container Service, “The integration of Kubernetes into ACS means that with a few clicks in the Azure portal, or by running a single command in the new python-based Azure command line tool, you will be able to create a fully functional Kubernetes cluster that is integrated with the rest of your Azure resources.”

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The Ops Team #30 – 2017 and new team member | The Ops Team

The Ops Team is a (sometimes) weekly show where Technical Evangelists specializing in the Operational side of DevOps get together to give you the deets on their areas of expertise including: Microsoft Azure, On-premises datacenter technologies, Open Source tools/technologies, and Microservices.

Here’s all the links and info on the topics we covered, along with the time stamps to jump to specific points in the video.

On-Prem Stuff with Matt McSpirit

DevOps and OSS with Oguz Pastirmaci

DevOps with David Tesar

Azure Stuff with Osvaldo Daibert

What do you think? Send us an email, comment below in the comments area on Channel 9, or tweet us at @TheOpsTeam.

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Episode 113 on JavaScript development in SharePoint with Mark Rackley—Office 365 Developer Podcast

In episode 113 of the Office 365 Developer Podcast, Richard diZerega and MVP Mark Rackley about JavaScript development in SharePoint and the SharePoint Framework.

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