• What is a  front-end operations engineer?
• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/06/11/
  front-end-ops/
  
• The bridge between an application's intent and an
  application's reality
• host front-end resources/grunt/modules
• versioning, caching and deployment
• own external performance

• Speed of the app
• make a dashboard
• speed index & link to the diff
• page weight (gzipped/ungzipped)
• # of requests, errors, build times


• Speed of the development
• Goal: change -> app should approach 0
• source map 
• easy cmd to get things works
• LiveReload
• set a calender remainder to update dependencies
• rigorous styles checking - lint

 Feature::isEnabled('my_feature') // returns true when feature is enabled

 Feature::variant('my_feature') // returns the name of the variant

• bring speed index under 1000
• TCP handshake
• TCP slow start
• max of 200ms server resp time
• 14k bytes
• Critical Rendering Path

1. Allow early discovery of dependent resources (CSS/JS/IMG)
2. Get CSS down to the client as fast as you can
3. Eliminate blocking JS

• do you need scripts in your critical rendering path?

• Problems with big site:
• complex UI components, high risk and high fear
• interwinded, low reuse,  technical debt

• Should feel as ez as working on a small site
• Need to decouple the UI and the apps
• Components
• a template with associated css and js
• and API to fetch them