Steve Workman

Steve works for Maersk, a logistics supplier that moves 16% of the whole planet's goods. He is the leader of the front-end community at Maersk and looks after maersk.com, one of the largest e-commerce sites in the world. Many, many years ago, Steve helped to organise London Web Standards, and can't wait to see the team again.

Talks

Unravelling the Mystery of Network Latency in China

What started as a desk-side conversation on why so many requests to a new API from China were traveling thousands of miles to the USA, unravelled a mystery of what life is like for a network request in mainland China.

Join us for story time with Maersk's Front-End Engineering leader Steve Workman, and learn what happens inside the great firewall, and how you can go faster in China.