Category: Development
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Kevin: When Everyone Can Code…
When everyone can code, knowing what code to write becomes more valuable than knowing how to type it.
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Deep insights you can use to speed up WordPress
Discover a new way to improve the speed of your WordPress websites, using insights from deep within your tech stack. You already know how to optimize WordPress, and now you can increase speed at a more fundamental level as well. It starts with PHP Vitals, a free plugin that runs benchmarking tests directly on your…
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What Running WordPress at Scale Taught Me
I have spent four years running WordPress at scale on Altis Cloud. I expected the lessons to be about infrastructure. Looking back, they were just good engineering habits. Assumptions are dangerous, better to seek the data to prove them, even the obvious ones. Unglamorous work pays off when things break. Willingness to understand beyond what…
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A Decade in Digital Agencies: What Actually Stuck
After more than 10 years working in the web development agency space across four different agencies, ranging from small teams to large enterprise-focused organizations, along with years spent freelancing, I’ve noticed something interesting: the hardest lessons in agency life rarely come from code alone. This talk is a collection of the lessons that stuck with…