Episode 254: UX Reliability with Mike Ryan

Web Rush

Host(s):

• John Papa @John_Papa
• Ward Bell @WardBell
• Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
• Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Guest:

• Mike Ryan [@mikeryandev]](https://twitter.com/mikeryandev)

Recording date: Sep 21, 2023

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

  

• IdeaBlade

Resources:

• Polaris
• Site Reliability on Web Rush with Brian Love on episode 228
• Surviving Technical Debt with Mike Ryan on Web Rush episode 117
• Websites vs Web Apps
• Polaris on LinkedIn
• Firebase Performance
• Sentry
• Data Dog
• Google Analytics
• SendBeacon API
• Using Web Workers
• A closer look at the Beacon API
• New Relic
• Smokey Mountains Website

Timejumps

• 00:27 Welcome
• 00:52 Introducing Mike Ryan
• 03:16 What is site reliability UX?
• 06:28 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 07:28 Why is reliability so important in a web app?
• 14:02 How can I prepare for site issues?
• 16:13 Where do you learn about tooling?
• 19:43 What do you do if the monitoring software goes down?
• 22:48 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 23:53 What about fault tolerance?
• 26:21 What are other uses for SendBeacon?
• 29:14 Why isn't there more conversations around this?
• 30:52 Who should be using user monitoring?
• 32:25 How easy is it to get started with Polaris?
• 34:04 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.