MOS Frontend - Proof of Concept

Performance Over Complexity

Agenda

1. Why?
2. Frontend
3. API

4. Stats

5. Going forward

6. Questions

Why?

• Page speed is becoming more of a concern across all MOS1 sites, especially DS
• We met to discuss potential for improving site/ad load times in general
• The Xmas Gift Guide build showed potential for super performant API driven sites
• We were encouraged to pick up Proof of Concept work in our spare time
• Why not try to replicate current MOS1 / DS with perfomance as the key goal

Frontend

• Based on Gift Guide focused purely on speed
• Highly optimised templates, CSS and Javascript
• Fine-grain control over requests means we are only loading critical assets on load, lazy loading the rest
• Modular components for ease of reuse across site/multiple sites
• Data Agnostic

API

• Imposed limitation: CMS stays the same
• Database therefore must stay the same
• Read-only data accessor (for now)

• Utilises high performance lightweight framework (Lumen)
• Uses PHP 7 (Over 50% more performant)
  • MUCH faster and MUCH smaller footprint so significantly less hardware required

Stats

Timeline

Future

• This is currently a technical prototype ...we want it to be more! 

• More resource!
• A/B testing to see the effect on performance.
• Ads!
  • We intend to build a new ad layer to work with this front-end stack in the most optimised way possible.
  • HTTP2 for faster asynchronous requests. Barrier is the Ad layer, but this should be possible to overcome.

Any questions?