Talks

Noise-Cancelling RUM-Based Alerting

How to get alerted to significant regressions and incidents at scale without getting overwhelmed by false positives? In this talk I present a few lessons learned while building an alerting system based on Real User Monitoring (RUM) data.

Oct 29, 2025 | Performance.sync() Meetup in Amsterdam

Needles in Haystacks: Working Together to Find Performance Problems Using RUM

Real User Monitoring (RUM) is key to find problems on a site and watch for regressions — and doing so is hard enough. But what if you have to monitor hundreds or thousands of websites? It takes a team of experts to build the right tools to do that.

Nov 13, 2024 | Performance.sync() Meetup in Amsterdam

Digital Sustainability: How Can We Build Software With the Planet in Mind?

Software. The Web. The Cloud. People tend to think of digital as being limitless or non-physical. But the Internet is the biggest machine ever built – and it has a huge impact on our environment. How can we as web developers help make IT more sustainable? What would enable us to do more?

Jan 31, 2024 | Online lecture for FH Salzburg, Austria

Why We Need a Green Perf Metric

The Internet is the biggest machine ever built – and it has a huge impact on our environment. How can we as perf experts help make IT more sustainable? What would enable us to do more?

Nov 01, 2023 | Performance.now() Pre-Event Meetup in Amsterdam

Fast and !Furious: Debugging INP for better web-page responsiveness

I explain the new Core Web Vital Interaction to Next Pain (INP) and share some tricks on how to debug and improve it.

Jun 22, 2023 | Hamburg Web Performance Group Meetup in Hamburg

Reducing Layout Shift with Custom Fallback Fonts

You go to a website and start reading the text as soon as it appears. But then the web font loads and the rest of the content shifts. How annoying! In this talk, we’ll go over how to adjust system fonts to reduce layout shift.

Mar 23, 2023 | Hamburg Web Performance Group Meetup in Hamburg