Are service workers draining my battery?

Just back from the AmsterdamJS conference, the first conference on javaScript based in Amsterdam.

There I gave a talk on the energy efficiency of progressive web apps (PWAs). PWAs are a new technology introduced by Google that aims at bridging this gap, with a set of APIs known as service workers at its core. In this talk I presented an empirical study that evaluates the impact of service workers on the energy efficiency of PWAs, when operating in different network conditions on two different generations of mobile devices. This talk presents the results of the first empirical investigation on PWAs, showing that the PWA and service workers technology is promising in terms of energy efficiency.

Here you can find the slides of the talk:

The fantastic team behind this scientific experiment is:

Here you can download the scientific paper on which the talk is based on: https://www.ivanomalavolta.com/files/papers/Mobilesoft_2017.pdf.

Ivano Malavolta

Ivano Malavolta is Associate Professor in the Software and Sustainability group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Director of the Network Institute @VU. His research focuses on data-driven software engineering, with a special emphasis on software architecture, mobile software development, robotics software. He applies empirical methods to evaluate methods and techniques in the field of software engineering. He authored several scientific articles in international journals and peer-reviewed international conferences proceedings. He is program committee member and reviewer of international conferences and journals in the software engineering field. He received a PhD in computer science from the University of L’Aquila in 2012. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, VERSEN, Amsterdam Young Academy, and Amsterdam Data Science.

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Are service workers draining my battery?by Ivano Malavolta

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