Doug Sillars

Doug is is a freelance mobile performance expert and developer advocate. He's a Google Developer Expert and the author of O’Reilly’s “High Performance Android Apps." Available for consultations.

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Europe
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I'm looking for work!
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Sep 11, 2018

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Jun 25

We just raised $5.5M! What does that mean for our developer community?

#video #videostreaming #startup #funding

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Doug Sillars

Jun 22

Creating a Virtual Conference Talk Part 3: Pulling it all Together

#fun #video

1 min read

Doug Sillars for Fidel API

Jun 22

How to create a card-linked offer

#developers #blogs #cardlinking #tech

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Jun 22

Creating a Virtual Conference Talk: Part 2 Syncing Videos

#fun #uncategorized #video

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Jun 16

Building a Virtual Conference Talk

#fun #uncategorized #video #virtualpresentation

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Doug Sillars for Fidel API

May 8

Real-time financial transactions with Fidel and Webhooks

#developers #blogs

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May 1

Social Media Social Distancing

#fun #image

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Doug Sillars for api.video

Apr 8

Live Streaming a video using just the browser

#livestream #webvideo

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Apr 2

Traveling the World Virtually

#fun #image #video

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Doug Sillars for api.video

Mar 18

Interested in Moving Your Meetup Online?

#meetup #virtual #streaming #livestream

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Mar 12

Organize your Live Streams and Recordings on one Simple Page

#zoom #wfh #teaching #video

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Mar 7

Facebook Security: Time for a checkup

#security #facebook #privacy

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Doug Sillars for api.video

Mar 6

How to Add Captions to your Videos

#videocaptioning #videostreamingserv #videos #videoaccessibility

5 min read

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Mar 3

Video Playback on Mobile Devices

#performance #video

1 min read

Doug Sillars for api.video

Feb 27

Building a Video Upload Demo with Node.js and api.video

12 min read

Doug Sillars for api.video

Feb 17

api.video Launches iOS SDK

#livestreaming #streamingvideo #mobilevideo #videostreamingonli

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Feb 11

Video Live Streaming in Just 5 Easy Steps

#videos #videostreamingserv #livestreaming

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Feb 4

Size Does Matter: LEGO’s 300MB Android App

#android #performance

1 min read

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Jan 10

Hiding Videos on the Mobile Web

#uncategorized

1 min read

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Feb 9

Video Playback Metrics: New Synthetic Testing Tool StreamOrNot

#uncategorized

1 min read

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Jan 16

Video Accessibility: Adding Captions

#video

1 min read

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Jan 28

State of the Web: Video Playback Metrics

#httparchive #performance #video

1 min read

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Dec 29 '19

Deep Dive: Three Tips for Faster, Easier Video Delivery

#uncategorized

1 min read

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Mar 26 '19

Websites that Keep Loading, and Loading and Loading….

#performance #webdev #mobile

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5 min read

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Dec 27 '19

How to Use Screenshots in Production

#webdev

4 min read

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Feb 12 '19

Using Screenshots in Production

#webdev

4 min read

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Feb 12 '19

Medicine4theDead I’d say — keep making aGIFs. Just then convert them to movies :).

1 min read

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Jan 15 '19

State of the Web: Animated GIFs

#gif #webperf

5 min read

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Dec 19 '18

glTF: An Image Format for AR/VR

#vr #vrimageformat #gltf #ar

5 min read

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Dec 18 '18

Redirects, and their Effect on Performance or How a (Seemingly Minor) Third Party Change Affected…

#webdev #web #performance #javascript

4 min read

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Nov 14 '18

Hackference 2018 Recap

#hackathons #hackerevents #hackference #techevents

2 min read

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Oct 7 '18

Chrome’s Experimental Image Lazy Loading Flag

#webdev

5 min read

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Oct 21 '18

GDPR use in urls

#webtrends #webdev #gdpr #privacy

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2 min read

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Sep 12 '18

#amaI’m a digital nomad and author of High Performance Android Apps, ask me anything!

#ama

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Oct 7 '18

Excess Video Downloads on Embedded Facebook Timelines

#webdev

4 min read

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Oct 7 '18

State of the Web: Top Image Optimization Strategies

#performance #image #webdev #webperf

7 min read

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