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Rick Viscomi

Rick Viscomi
Developer Programs Engineer, Google

@rick_viscomi

Rick Viscomi is a front end engineer focused on web performance, currently working at Google on the YouTube team.

Sessions

1:15pm–1:55pm Thursday, 06/26/2014
Making YouTube Fast
Performance
Mission City Ballroom B1
Rick Viscomi (Google), Alex Nicksay (YouTube), Steven Robertson (YouTube)
Average rating: ****.
(4.36, 14 ratings)
YouTube videos are playing 40% faster than last year. Come find out the modern front-end optimization techniques we used and how you can apply them. Read more.
2:45pm–3:25pm Thursday, 06/26/2014
Office Hour with Alex Nicksay (YouTube), Steven Robertson (YouTube), and Rick Viscomi (YouTube)
Office Hours
Table 3 (Exhibit Hall)
Alex Nicksay (YouTube), Steven Robertson (YouTube), Rick Viscomi (Google)
YouTube videos are playing 40% faster than last year! Alex, Steven, and Rick are happy to discuss the frontend optimization techniques they used to make these improvements, such as their new HTML5 framework for page navigation, and dynamic page loads with persistent content and dynamic prefetching. Read more.