name

Maximiliano Firtman

mobile+web developer

Max Firtman is a mobile and web developer with over 20 years of experience. Spent 15 years teaching Web development to beginners and advanced developers in more than 40 countries - including big companies such as Apple, Yahoo!, PayPal and Intel. He has authored more than 10 books available in 13 languages, most recently High Performance Mobile Web published by O’Reilly Media.

He has received different recognitions, including Nokia Developer Champion yearly since 2006; Adobe Community Champion in 2011, and a Google recognition for being one of the most innovative mobile developers.

Talks

  • Hacking Web Performance

    New compression algorithms? New image formats? Client Hints? HTTP/2 push? Let's hack Web Performance. I’ll briefly cover the important steps that most web professionals are making to improve performance. We’ll get deeply into what's new and extreme that can increase radically user's perception and conversion thanks to a better performance - new image formats, protocols, compression algorithms and a review of old ideas. This talk is based on a research presented in my recent ebook https://www.verizondigitalmedia.com/e-book/hacking-web-performance

  • Uncovering the secrets of Progressive Web Apps

    We’ll introduce the current state of PWAs, available platforms, compatibility, business and technical challenges. We will get deep into the Android’s WebAPK system and we will see how to increase installation rates through banners and dialog APIs, and what happens after the PWA was installed and the user encounters a link to our web server. We will talk about how to get our PWA into stores, including official support on Microsoft Store, the usage of Web Trusted Activites for Android's Play Store and solutions for iOS and mac AppStore, including the new Capacitor framework to create native PWAs.