I gave a talk at CoderCruise about developing for performance and avoiding common…
Picking a popular technology comes with a well documented advantage of having a vast library of plugins/add-ons/extensions/modules to choose from. Just look at a number of Wordpress plugins or number of modules in growing Node.js npm repository. These modules are effectively a reusable solutions to your…
In preparation for my talk for php[world], I was genuinely concerned that the topic was too basic for vast majority of developers (I even purposely named the talk PHP performance 101).During the talk, I was really surprised to see that most people in the audience found the performance…
As the holiday rush is winding down, I sit here reflecting on all the companies that lost business/revenue over the…
The talk I gave at PHP World in Washington, DC. In this talk I presented the most common database-related performance bottlenecks that can happen in most PHP applications.
Every technologist has a technology preference. PHP vs Perl, MySQL vs PostgreSQL, Chef vs Puppet, Microsoft vs … well, pretty much everyone…
“OMG, Facebook is DOWN!!!” was the cry of the millions when Facebook was unavailable for about 3 hours because…
Recently I realized that I don’t hate PHP, as I thought for many years, I just hate people who code in PHP. And before lynch mob…
