When Harry's launched Flamingo, a women's care brand, they invested in static rendering with Gatsby to deliver the site's frontend in a scalable & performant way.

This talk explores the differences between server-rendering & static-rendering for web frontends, & lays out the architecture for shopflamingo.com. It discusses the importance of building a performance culture through monitoring & automation, & how building for performance helps ensure that sites are accessible for users, regardless of their access to fast networks & devices.

Tim Brown (@_brimtown), Senior Software Engineer at Harry's / Flamingo is a software engineer who builds for the web. He loves crafting intuitive & performant experiences for users. He is a Senior Software Engineer at Harry's, Inc, focusing on frontend architecture, web performance, & design systems.

This is a joint event with React Ladies group:
https://www.meetup.com/React-Ladies/

React Ladies is a supportive community for women & non-binary React enthusiasts with any level of programming experience to grow as technologists & meet other React developers. We center our events around JavaScript & other technologies within the React ecosystem.

We are at Meetup HQ again. They also sponsor food & drinks for us!

As always, we are going to have geekaways with geeky prizes provided by our sponsors.

Agenda:

6:30 - Arrive at Meetup, meet other members
6:45 - Event starts
7:00 - Statically Generating Performance (Tim Brown)
8:00 - Q&A
8:15 - "Books & Stuff" geekaways
8:30 - Open Discussion, Networking

Location:

Meetup
632 Broadway
9th floor
New York, NY

Directions on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/VUw23K

Entrance on StreetView: https://goo.gl/h4Cwh6

Our Sponsors:

- Fastly (https://www.fastly.com/) is the only CDN that gives businesses complete control over how they serve content & the ability to cache frequently changing content at the edge.

- Catchpoint's (https://www.catchpoint.com/) end-user experience monitoring provides complete visibility into users experiences from anywhere to detect & fix issues faster.