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    <description>Hosted by CTOs Josh Nesbitt and James Hall, Off Script brings you unfiltered conversations about the highs, lows, and lessons of working in tech today. From leading engineering teams and scaling companies, to tackling burnout, bad bets, and breakthrough ideas, this is the show where raw honesty meets experience.
Alongside one-on-one conversations between Josh and James, you’ll hear from leaders, builders, designers, and entrepreneurs who aren’t afraid to share what’s really going on behind the scenes — the conversations usually left for DMs, side chats, and after-hours drinks.
Whether you’re building your first product or leading a fast-growing team, Off Script gives you a raw and refreshing perspective on the challenges and creativity that shape modern tech.
New episodes every few weeks. Subscribe and join the conversation.
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Alongside one-on-one conversations between Josh and James, you’ll hear from leaders, builders, designers, and entrepreneurs who aren’t afraid to share what’s really going on behind the scenes — the conversations usually left for DMs, side chats, and after-hours drinks.
Whether you’re building your first product or leading a fast-growing team, Off Script gives you a raw and refreshing perspective on the challenges and creativity that shape modern tech.
New episodes every few weeks. Subscribe and join the conversation.
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  <itunes:subtitle>What would your first steps be when working on application performance? What tools can you use to help you through this process? What are the challenges when you overly optimise your application? Our hosts James and Josh dive into these questions and outline their thoughts on this and much more.</itunes:subtitle>
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Baselining where you are and establishing your starting point
Monitoring and improving performance
Speeding up your app speeds up dev time
Chrome dev tools
Game-changing services
Image optimisation
Reducing friction
Unlearning best practices
Testing
Worker related scripts
Lazy loading
Preloading
Resources:
* Chrome DevTools (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/)
* web.dev (https://web.dev/)
* Cloudflare (https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/)
* Fastly (https://www.fastly.com/)
* New Relic (https://newrelic.com/)
* AppSignal (https://www.appsignal.com/)
* Blackfire (https://www.blackfire.io/)
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
* Stac (https://stac.works)
* Parallax (https://parall.ax) 
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    <![CDATA[<p>What would your first steps be when working on application performance? What tools can you use to help you through this process? What are the challenges when you overly optimise your application? Our hosts James and Josh dive into these questions and outline their thoughts on the following and much more:</p>

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<li>Baselining where you are and establishing your starting point</li>
<li>Monitoring and improving performance</li>
<li>Speeding up your app speeds up dev time</li>
<li>Chrome dev tools</li>
<li>Game-changing services</li>
<li>Image optimisation</li>
<li>Reducing friction</li>
<li>Unlearning best practices</li>
<li>Testing</li>
<li>Worker related scripts</li>
<li>Lazy loading</li>
<li>Preloading</li>
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<p>Resources:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/" rel="nofollow">Chrome DevTools</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.dev/" rel="nofollow">web.dev</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/" rel="nofollow">Cloudflare</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.fastly.com/" rel="nofollow">Fastly</a></li>
<li><a href="https://newrelic.com/" rel="nofollow">New Relic</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.appsignal.com/" rel="nofollow">AppSignal</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.blackfire.io/" rel="nofollow">Blackfire</a></li>
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<p>Find out more about Stac and Parallax:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://stac.works" rel="nofollow">Stac</a></li>
<li><a href="https://parall.ax" rel="nofollow">Parallax</a></li>
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    <![CDATA[<p>What would your first steps be when working on application performance? What tools can you use to help you through this process? What are the challenges when you overly optimise your application? Our hosts James and Josh dive into these questions and outline their thoughts on the following and much more:</p>

<ul>
<li>Baselining where you are and establishing your starting point</li>
<li>Monitoring and improving performance</li>
<li>Speeding up your app speeds up dev time</li>
<li>Chrome dev tools</li>
<li>Game-changing services</li>
<li>Image optimisation</li>
<li>Reducing friction</li>
<li>Unlearning best practices</li>
<li>Testing</li>
<li>Worker related scripts</li>
<li>Lazy loading</li>
<li>Preloading</li>
</ul>

<p>Resources:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/" rel="nofollow">Chrome DevTools</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.dev/" rel="nofollow">web.dev</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/" rel="nofollow">Cloudflare</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.fastly.com/" rel="nofollow">Fastly</a></li>
<li><a href="https://newrelic.com/" rel="nofollow">New Relic</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.appsignal.com/" rel="nofollow">AppSignal</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.blackfire.io/" rel="nofollow">Blackfire</a></li>
</ul>

<p>Find out more about Stac and Parallax:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://stac.works" rel="nofollow">Stac</a></li>
<li><a href="https://parall.ax" rel="nofollow">Parallax</a></li>
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