“…Performance Matters (10 sessions): Addy Osmani (Google) shares data-driven techniques and performance patterns for efficiently loading content instantly; Nic Jansma (SOASTA) and Shubhie Panicker (Google) explain the new RUM APIs for measuring responsiveness; and Gareth Hughes and Michael Gooding (Akamai) lead a tutorial on the top five performance techniques for today's modern browsers and how to implement them. …”

“…Keynote highlights include Martin Woodward's (DevOps program manager, Microsoft) tale of how Microsoft transitioned 65,000 Microsofties to DevOps in the public cloud; Dianne Marsh's (director of engineering, Cloud Tools, Netflix) reflections on how things have changed (and stayed the same) in her 30-year software career; Kelsey Hightower's (staff developer advocate, Google Cloud Platform) recount of his experiences building cloud-native applications with Kubernetes and Istio; and Cliff Crocker's (VP Product, Akamai) talk on "The False Dichotomy of Finders Versus Fixers" (you have to see/hear it to understand it). …”