Technology

Developing applications for performance

I gave a talk at CoderCruise about developing for performance and avoiding common…

Minimum Viable Architecture

I gave a talk at DevOpsDays Austin about building a right architecture to fit your needs.

Lost Art of Troubleshooting

I gave a talk at DevOpsDays Baltimore about troubleshooting methods, tools and anti-patterns.

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…

Oncall for developers

I gave a Deadpool-themed talk at DevOpsDays Atlanta, talking about developers’ responsibilities to support on-call…

Production testing through monitoring

I gave a talk at DevOpsDays Denver, talking about collaboration of testing and monitoring and…

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…

In the talk I gave at PHP World in DC, most controversial statement (not surprisingly) was “ORMs are evil” (slide 30). And while I had good examples and stories on performance hits from the query generation and optimization perspective, I didn’t have numbers on hand to show the impact…