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Every Millisecond Counts: Performance & UX

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How do you lose 900 million dollars in 100ms? Or 8 million visits in just 4/10 of a second?

User expectations are higher than ever when it comes to web performance, so much so that we've created an entirely new application architecture just to make it feel like our websites are faster than they actually are.

This talk will look at how we can improve our users experience at any scale through performance optimizations at every layer of the stack, from backend to browser.

Davey Shafik

Davey Shafik is a full-time developer with over 15 years of experience in PHP and related technologies. He is a Developer Evangelist at Akamai Technologies and has written three books, numerous articles, and spoken at conferences the world over. He is best known for his books, the [Zend PHP Certification Study Guide](http://zceguide.com) and [PHP Master: Write Cutting Edge Code](https://learnable.com/books/php-master-write-cutting-edge-code), and as the creator of [PHP Archive (PHAR)](http://php.net/phar) for PHP 5.3.

Davey is passionate about improving the tech community. He co-organizes the Prompt initiative (http://mhprompt.org), dedicated to lifting the stigma surrounding mental health discussions, and has worked with PHPWomen since its inception.

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