Catching Up With Web Performance

Catching Up With Web Performance

Stories of people learning web performance.

Episodes

Chris Ferdinandi

December 21, 2023 • 55 mins
Chris Ferdinandi shares his evolution from HR to Vanilla JS, lessons learned teaching, the importance of testing things yourself, and the power of role modeling. Show Notes: https://catchingup.dev/podcasts/chris-ferdinandi/
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Tammy Everts

October 7, 2023 • 51 mins
Tammy Everts shares her journey from Strangeloop to SpeedCurve, from publishing to UX, the challenges of modern web performance, and her passion for digital psychology. Show Notes: https://catchingup.dev/podcasts/tammy-everts/
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Philip Walton

September 2, 2023 • 47 mins
Philip Walton shares his journey from startup to Google, from analytics to performance, his top tip for developers, and reflections on Core Web Vitals. Show Notes: https://catchingup.dev/podcasts/philip-walton/
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Estela Franco

July 29, 2023 • 43 mins
Estela Franco shares her journey from SEO to web performance specialist, differences between marketing and dev teams, and the evolution and future of Core Web Vitals. Show Notes: https://catchingup.dev/podcasts/estela-franco/
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Karolina Szczur

June 29, 2023 • 40 mins
Karolina Szczur shares her journey from designer/developer to Calibre co-founder, the Performance Newsletter, and why perf shouldn't be gatekept to developers but shared with everyone. Show Notes: https://catchingup.dev/podcasts/karolina-szczur/
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Jack Franklin

May 31, 2023 • 38 mins
Jack Franklin dives into the Performance panel, his journey from startups to DevRel to Google engineer, learning how to inspect traces, and the value of understanding errors. Show Notes: https://catchingup.dev/podcasts/jack-franklin/
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Kashyap Kondamudi

May 15, 2023 • 40 mins
Kashyap recalls his journey from design to software to banking and back, learning from side projects, getting into open source, working on Flipkart's PWA, and now diving into RUM. Show Notes: https://catchingup.dev/podcasts/kashyap-kondamudi/
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Arturo Silva

March 11, 2023 • 36 mins
Arturo Silva recalls his time at Lowe’s, Red Ventures, and The Washington Post, performance as a business decision, CLS in journalism, and JavaScript hot takes. Show Notes: https://catchingup.dev/podcasts/arturo-silva/
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Christian Cho

December 4, 2022 • 33 mins
Christian Cho shares his experience in startups, learning from mentors, what it means to be a senior engineer, and the value of real user data. Show Notes: https://catchingup.dev/podcasts/christian-cho/
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Ethan Gardner

November 15, 2022 • 34 mins
Ethan Gardner shares his experience in the publishing industry, his learnings from IEEE, ACM, and SWEBOK, and the value of soft skills in managing performance. Show Notes: https://catchingup.dev/podcasts/ethan-gardner/
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Annie Sullivan

October 30, 2022 • 43 mins
Annie Sullivan time travels from Perl-based forums in the ’90s, to AI and gameplay programming, on through Google Docs, Core Web Vitals, and the new INP metric. Show Notes: https://catchingup.dev/podcasts/annie-sullivan/
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Medhat Dawoud

October 15, 2022 • 52 mins
Medhat Dawoud shares his journey from junior dev to Google Developer Expert, from jQuery to React, his model for learning and some surprises along the way. Show Notes: https://catchingup.dev/podcasts/medhat-dawoud/
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Vinicius Dallacqua

September 29, 2022 • 46 mins
Vinicius Dallacqua shares his journey from national elections in Brazil, to Black Friday sales in Sweden, to building a performance culture at Spotify. Show Notes: https://catchingup.dev/podcasts/vinicius-dallacqua/
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Barry Pollard

September 15, 2022 • 43 mins
Barry Pollard shares his journey from investment banking to Google, his obsession with web performance, and perf's evolution from load to lifecycle. Show Notes: https://catchingup.dev/podcasts/barry-pollard/
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Josh Goldberg

September 8, 2022 • 41 mins
Josh Goldberg talks game development, Full Screen Mario, his new book, Learning TypeScript, and more. Show Notes: https://catchingup.dev/podcasts/josh-goldberg/
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Noam Rosenthal

September 1, 2022 • 34 mins
Noam Rosenthal discusses performance since 1998, his journey across product and platform, and his philosophy of performance as the resource of software. Show Notes: https://catchingup.dev/podcasts/noam-rosenthal/
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