Yes, website performance matters
I’m still amazed that some ecommerce folks don’t know this but website performance matters. This awesome chart from a lonely planet case study, clearly shows the relationship between website...
View ArticleNetflix AWS architecture – talk from Adrian Cockcroft
This week I went to a talk on AWS architecture from Netflix’s chief architecture - Adrian Cockcroft. The talk covered a broad range of topics and in a good deal of technical detail (yeesss). Adrian’s...
View ArticleFive web performance tools for developers and operations
I can highly recommend these tools and if combined will make a difference to any website performance. I’ve included a couple of IIS flavour web performance tools below – a platform which isn’t that...
View ArticleHow to install sitespeed.io on ubuntu 12.04
What’s sitespeed.io? Sitespeed.io is an open source tool that helps you analyze and optimize your website speed and performance based on performance best practices. It crawls your website, analyzes the...
View ArticleHiring with a smile
Hiring great people is hard, hiring great people with great team fit is harder. We recently ran a recruitment for a web operations engineer – it took us six months to find the right person. I think...
View ArticleTime to Value – a perfect metric for devops
I recently heard Jesse Robbins (co-founder of opscode) talk about changing culture & devops. During this awesome talk, he said that organisations that get devops right see a massive improvement in...
View Article[Book review] The Pheonix project
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win Once you can get past the title (a bit of a mouthful) it’s a cracking read aimed at anyone working in IT management. The...
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