Ilya Grigorik, Google, at O'Reilly Velocity Conference 2013, with John Furrier and Jeff Frick #velocityconf @thecube For the second day of Velocity Conference 2013, broadcasting from Santa Clara, CA, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Jeff Frick talked to Ilya Grigorik, Developer Advocate for High Performance at Google. The "tech athletes" discussed hot topics such as Web Performance, Velocity and Mobile Web. There's a lot of R&D at Google (Google Glass and self-driving machines to name two initiatives), but the bills are paid with search and AdWords. Furrier joked that the faster the pages load on the internet, the faster people click on Google links, so speed is definitely essential for Google. Grigorik agreed, stating that "Google is very motivated to make the web succeed." Google cares about speed and making oits servers fast and for that, "Sometimes we design our own hardware, or we are just contributing to making TCP and browsers fast. Integrating design Velocity Conference is the perfect place for developers to gather and find out what the rest of the developers are working on. "Performance is just means to an end", says Grigorik. "It all about user experience." We have to make sure that we deliver products that satisfy the customers' needs. Grigorik wanted to talk more about Mobile, as it is "exploding everywhere", and traffic from mobile devices is going through the roof. It has surpassed desktop traffic or it is very close to. That determines a lot of rethinking and a lot of retooling, because until recently all the design was based on the performance and latency of the destop user. The conversation tackles aspects of optimization, and what does it mean to build a web page that is mobile-responsive. All the conversations at Velocity Conference seem to be centered on how to optimize around all of those things. Mobile web is so attractive because it has all the benfits of instant updates, and you can push as many releases as you want. The Google Consumer Service Team had a talk the day before and they shared some of the stats and how they deploy their applications and it turns out that they deploy 30 times a day, at Google scale. It's not just pushing code, it's making sure that you're pushing code and delivering value. Developers are using more node, because they are focusing on the server-side. But what technologies can do more in the Web Apps? Grigorik thinks we're going to see a collection of technologies in the future. No Js is a great runtime for a certain class of applications: LWS, Google Compute Engine that can provide the necessary infrastructure. Ilya Grigorik is going to have a book out soon, published by O'Reilly. It's called "High Performance Browser Networking".