Enabling performance-centric engineering orgs (JS Party #216)

This week Amal and Nick are joined by Dan Shappir, a Performance Tech Lead at Next Insurance, to learn about enabling a performance-first mindset within your engineering org.

Dan recently left his 7+ year tenure leading performance at Wix where he and his team improved, and monitored the speed of millions of websites around the world.

Join us to learn how he lead a cultural transformation that propelled Wix sites to be faster than most other React apps in the wild - including ones built with frameworks like Next.js.

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Featuring:

• Dan Shappir – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study) | Smashing Magazine
• Tweet showing metrics in the wild with Wix leading the pack
• JS Party show with Paul Bakaus from Google | For a more dope web! #174
• Core Web Vitals Report
• Core Web Vitals
• Real-user monitoring (RUM)
• Facebook’s JS Optimizer - Prepack (now deprecated)
• w3c Web Performance Working Group
• Performance API | Native web API
• High Performance Browser Networking | An O’Reilly book by Ilya Grigorik (free web verision)
• Wix - A Free Website Builder

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