Distribute the workload, PHP Barcelona 2011
Many services / applications now a day are ill equipped with handling a sudden rush of popularity, as is often the case on the internet now a days, to a point where the services either become unavaila
Manage cloud infrastructures in PHP using Zend Framework 2 (and 1)
Cloud computing, particularly cloud infrastructure, has recently become more streamlined and efficient by exposing management and deployment capabilities through easy to use APIs. To consume these API
Staging Drupal: Change Management Strategies for Drupal
This is a presentation I gave at DrupalCamp NH in October 2011. The presentation covered aspects of change management strategies across multiple server environments.
High Performance Software Engineering Teams
Based on my experiences building high performance engineering teams, this presentation focuses on the technical practices required. These practices centers around automation (build, test and deploymen
Puppet for dummies - ZendCon 2011 Edition
Puppet is a configuration management tool which allows easy deployment and configuration ranging from 1 to 1 thousand servers (and even more). Even though its common knowledge for devops, puppet is st
1,000,000 daily users and no cache (Splash 2011)
Online games pose a few interesting challenges on their backend: A single user generates one http call every few seconds and the balance between data read and write is close to 50/50 which makes the u