MUNICH FRONTEND CONFERENCE 2017

The web is a strange place with many standards and browser vendors that all have to come together to make something useful. This talk looks at what’s next for web technologies including ECMAScript 2016, Service Workers, the Fetch API, and HTTP/2. It then looks at how these standards come about and which groups set the direction. 

We’ll discuss how the W3C, WHATWG, ECMA TC39, and IETF work together (or don’t) to push the Web forward. You’ll leave this talk better prepared for the web of tomorrow.

Performance is key to success for many JavaScript applications today, where performance can mean different things like throughput, load time or responsiveness, all of which are highly dependent on optimizations in the JavaScript VM.

In this talk we’ll briefly look into how V8 performs these optimizations, the benchmarks used to drive these optimizations, and how benchmarks, especially micro-benchmarks can fool you. We’ll also cover how the V8 team changed the way they measure performance, to ensure that they improve real-world application latency and throughput rather than synthetic benchmark scores.