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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

He has also hosted the NY Web Performance Meetup, which boasts over 5,000 members, since 2009. Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster.