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HELIOS
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The Sun’s Headless Web Rendering Engine
Overview• Who we are?
• The History
• Helios
• What we have learnt
• What would we change
• The Future
The History• 2015
• Méthod + Escenic
• Behind a paywall
• Paywall removed Nov 2015.
• June 2016
• Migration to Wordpress VIP
What problems did we want to solve?
• Innovate and build capability to move faster
• Faster time to market for commercial initiatives
• Cost saving and scale
Goals
• A componentized client view that is decoupled from Wordpress
• Increase release cycle times
• Server / client shareable functionality
• Increased traffic and engagement
• Revenue
KPI’s
• Page Speed
• Time to First Paint
• Server Response Time
What is Helios?
The Approach
Wordpress Helios
Desktop Mobile
Page Load Speed 37% 14%
Time to First Paint 39% 47%
Server Response Time 48% 23%
User facing metrics
Learnings
• Monitoring is valuable
• Efficient caching is complicated
• Continually evaluate and change when required
• Do not underestimate complexity in working with multiple vendors
What would we change?
• Break away from Wordpress early
• Single Repo
• Have the foundation in place
Into the Future…
• Extend Helios to serve the remaining parts of the site
• Single Repo
• Pre-rendering
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