DevOps : Building a Python virtual environment

30 May 2017 |

When embarking on a devOps journey, getting a consistent development environment is the key. In this post, I show how to setup a virtual environment and install the correct libraries necessary for a project.

Better notes with Markdown and SublimeText!

25 May 2017 |

Learn why Markdown is a good for taking notes during trainings and meetings and plugins for Sublime Text2+Markdown integration. It's very good for converting to blog posts with Github pages as well.

Notes from "Akamai Connector For Varnish" training

12 May 2017 |

Akamai and Varnish are launching a new solution called Akamai Connector For Varnish. Here's how to setup and work with Varnish.

Synthetic Testing and with WPT and Jenkins

02 May 2017 |

Webpagetest is very good for monitoring website performance. By using Jenkins to run synthetic tests on WPT, it is possible to build a decent solution for automated performance monitoring and validating your performance budget.

AWS Summit - SFO - Day-2 Notes from Keynote and Fireside chat

18 Apr 2017 |

AWS Summit - SFO - Day - 1 Notes

18 Apr 2017 |

Wordpress.com vs Github Pages Performance compared

17 Apr 2017 |

Wordpress.com gets a lot of attention about its bloat and slowness. While moving to Github pages, I ran a comparison and wanted to show the magnitude of difference across the 2 platforms.

Perceptual SpeedIndex - What, Why and is it necessary?

11 Apr 2017 |

Recently a paper was released about perceived performance around a new metric called SpeedPerception. Although interesting, it does not appear to be practical like SpeedIndex, TTFB or other metrics.