How to Spruce up your Evolved PHP Application
Do you have a PHP application running and have to deal with inconveniences like lack of scalability, complexity of debugging, and low performance? That’s bad enough! But trust me: you are not alone!...
View ArticleBreaking Down the Website Performance of Tax Day 2015
So yesterday was April 15th 2015… Tax Day. Across the US, taxpayers had a deadline that they need to file their federal and state taxes. As with every aspect of our day-to-day lives we are seeing the...
View ArticleThe Art of DevOps Part III – Staging Grounds
In this 4 part blog series, I am exposing DevOps best practices using a metaphor inspired by the famous 6th century Chinese manuscript: “The Art of War”. It is worth reminding that Sun Tzu, just like...
View ArticleDB2 Single-row FETCH still wasting big money on Mainframe
Why are we still giving away thousands of dollars to IBM? Is it because we are too lazy to rewrite our code to leverage Multi-row FETCH and Multi-row INSERT vs using Single-row FETCH? Let me show you...
View Article5 tips from Dynatrace 2016 Digital Experience Report
Dynatrace recently released its annual Digital Experience Report comparing the digital experiences offered by leaders in seven industries. You can watch the webinar or read the report to find out who...
View ArticleWhen mobile friendliness defeats mobile performance!
Recently, someone asked me the following question: “Can you explain to us why the same page, optimized to be mobile friendly, takes 4.5 seconds to open on the desktop Chrome browser, but takes almost...
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