Scale Your Code Podcast

This episode explains: what developers should know to speed up their web apps, how to read the Chrome DevTools waterfall, and how HTTP/2 works.

Optimizing images can result in the largest byte savings and performance improvements for your websites. This interview answers the big question: "How do you optimize images?"

Streaming videos is difficult enough, but it gets even more complicated when you start collecting very detailed stats. See how Wistia's different layers handle intense processing. Max also gives us a sneak peek of new projects they're working on.

Dan knows a thing or two about scaling APIs. This episode teaches how to avoid outages and how Keen processes a lot of critical data using queues, stream processing, and scalable storage

From serving 2,000 reqs/second and thwarting DDoS attacks, to techniques used in making Basecamp insanely fast and adapting Rails to thicker JS clients, David drops knowledge you do not want to miss.

From a better onboarding process to making your life easier, automating is an investment that makes a big difference. Kate shares how she automates with one-click deploy and one-click test environment examples.

Simon explains how Shopify handles flash sales where thousands of people rush in at the same time. He talks about scaling databases, making apps resilient, and tips for companies looking to run Docker in production.

Push your infrastructure live and manage your nodes with a special guest from Chef's team. This is a sequel to the first popular Chef episode with Nathen Harvey. If you've ever watched Nathen's work, you already know this is a great episode.

Get a sneak peak into his upcoming book The Art of Monitoring and answers to what you should be monitoring (and how). We also talk about Docker in production and how Kickstarter monitors to give users a better experience.

Netflix accounts for over 36% of North America's downstream traffic during peak hours. Reddit has over 160M unique visitors a month and billions of page views. Jeremy teaches us how they've scaled to such heights.