Performance Monitoring for single page applications.

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##Submit proposals for flash talks
Rootconf is on 11-12 May. If you have:

Tips and tricks for simplifying infrastructure management and maintenance;
Experiences with new tools to share;
Cool demos;

then propose a flash talk here, or on the spot, at the venue.

The flash talk session is on 11 May, from 17:20-18:20. We have room for about 12 flash talks. Each presentation should be no more than 5 minutes.

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##Theme
The theme for the 2017 edition is service reliability. The conference will feature talks on state of the art deployment strategies and appropriate monitoring technologies at different scales. Rootconf this year will broadly cover topics like toil, on-call, outage handling, and post-mortem analysis. We are inviting presentation proposals from academics and practitioners on these topics.

Rootconf aims to appeal to the widest possible range of DevOps practitioners: from embryonic startups to the largest established enterprises. We are keen to schedule presentations that appeal both to attendees’ current needs as well as their future aspirations.

##About the Conference
Rootconf is India’s principal conference where systems and operations engineers share real world knowledge about building reliable systems. We are now accepting submissions for our next edition which will take place in Bangalore on 11-12 May 2017.

Topics for Round 2 of the CfP were:

Capacity planning.
Deploying microservices, and issues concerning monitoring and reliability of microservices.
Deployment and orchestration of container based infrastructures.
Open tracing.

Topics for Round 1 of the CfP were:

Monitoring strategies
Deployment strategies
Capacity planning
Automation beyond deployment and monitoring
Eliminating toil
On-call outage handling
Postmortem / root cause analysis
Incident response

##Format
Rootconf is a three track conference:

Rooconf talks in the main auditorium.
Red Hat and Linux Foundation sponsored Platforms track in the banquet hall.
Birds of Feather (BOF) sessions in the lawns.

We are inviting proposals for:

Full-length 40-minute talks – which cover conceptual topics and include case studies.
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Sponsored sessions, of 15 minutes and 40 minutes duration (limited slots available; subject to editorial scrutiny and approval).
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##Selection Process
Proposals will be filtered and shortlisted by an Editorial Panel. Please make sure to add links to videos / slide decks when submitting proposals. This will help us understand your speaking experience and delivery style. Blurbs or blog posts covering the relevance of a particular problem statement and how it is tackled will help the Editorial Panel better judge your proposals. We might contact you to ask if you’d like to repost your content on the official conference blog.

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##Travel Grants
As our budget is limited, we prefer speakers from locations closer home, but will do our best to cover for anyone exceptional. HasGeek provides these limited grants where applicable:

Two grants covering travel and accommodation for international speakers.
Three grants covering travel and accommodation for domestic speakers.

Grants will be made available to speakers delivering full sessions (40 minutes or longer).
*Speaker travel grants will be given in the order of preference to students, women, persons of non-binary genders, and speakers from Asia and Africa.

##Commitment to Open Source
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##Important Dates:

Deadline for submitting proposals: 10 April, 2017
Final conference schedule: 15 April 2017
Conference dates: 11-12 May, 2017

##Contact
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Performance Monitoring for single page applications.

Submitted Feb 15, 2017

Section: Full talk of 40 mins duration Technical level: Intermediate

As the world is moving more and more towards javascript enabled applications, its becoming increasingly complex to define performance of online web applications. The typical page load time metric has proven to be unsuitable and has been replaced with other more suitable metrics like first paint and time to interactive. In this talk I would like the listeners to understand how we can measure performance of these single page applications, what are the prevailing metrics that make sense. I will dive deeper into a simple framework that can be developed inhouse to get measure, report and alert based on these metrics. In the end i would also like to go over a simple evaluation of some of the existing tools.

Outline

At the end of this talk listeners would be able to understand:
1.What is web performance monitoring and why it is important?
2.What are some of the important metrics that should be captured for Single page applications?
3.How can we develop/reuse a simple framework to measure these metrics?
4.Other tools that are available which can help us in measuring.
In the first few slides listeners will understand the different kinds of performance monitoring methodologies namely:
1.What is Synthetic monitoring and how it is typically implemented?
2.What is Real time performance monitoring and how it is implemented?
Why is Real time performance monitoring equally or more important than just using synthetic monitoring?
In the next 2-3 slides we will go over the importance of reporting performance data in percentiles instead of calculating averages.
We will also describe how page load times are misleading in the world of javascript apps and describe some of the relatively new metric terms like time to first paint and time to user interactive metrics have gained importance.
In the next few slides we will go over how the browser (using navigation timing, user timing and resource timing) enables us today to take these measurements.
At this time we will get into the details of building a framework which will allow the development team to measure the metrics described above using the api’s provided by the browser. We will briefly go over the algorithm that is used for
•fresh page load: (last executed user marker – navigation start)
•button click: [last executed user marker (for route change, ajax, js)- user marker (setup for click/route change)]
•Send data using a beacon.
Showcase some of the reports generated for RUM for performance
Describe shortcomings to this approach namely:
•Developers need to keep track of markers
We can define some extensions to this approach:
•Run a preprocessing module with an input(describing the workflow) to capture the render of sections that are above the fold and DOM mutations that take place because of ajax/user clicks.
•Put user timing markers at certain sections in the source code during the build step using a processing module. (described above)
•Including a javascript file (for the algorithm described above) which will be used to capture metrics.
Finally we will cover an evaluation of some tools that help in real user performance monitoring for single page applications.

Speaker bio

I’m a staff engineer at Intuit working in the e-commerce domain. I have been involved in the building of performant online applications.
I have worked on front-end architectures be it on migrating to Single page (javascript) applications, their performance or seo content generation for single page applications. At the same time I have also worked on the backend services from designing them to improving their performance, to monitoring them while in production.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitin-mehra-996ab515