Scaling the Application Mountains
Posted on Thursday, May 8, 2014
Show Notes
Guests
Steve Corona
Steve Corona is the author of Scaling PHP Applications. Steve slept next to his laptop for a year while learning how to scale Twitpic to 50 million users. Now, Steve is the Head of API at Life360, where he bends PHP to his will, torturing it with 800 million API requests per day :) Steve blogs about life hacking at stevecorona.com and has been featured by FastCompany, WSJ, NYT, and LifeHacker.
Igor Papirov
Igor Papirov is a chief architect of AzureWatch, a monitoring and management service for Windows Azure applications. He is a passionate about software development, cloud computing and Windows Azure. Igor is also a Windows Azure Insider.
Hosts
Matt Stratton (he/him)
Matty Stratton is the Director of Developer Relations at Aiven, a well-known member of the DevOps community, and a global organizer of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.
Matty has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL.
He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke.
Trevor Hess
Trevor Hess is a Senior Product Manager at Progress Software working on Chef Software. He currently works on the Chef Application Delivery, Compliance and Infrastructure offerings.
Coming from a background in .NET Software Development and consulting, he has worked with several large multinational organizations to help kick start their journey to the cloud and the world of DevOps practices and principals. He is excited to engage in new experiences, and learning opportunities.
Trevor enjoys having hearty discussions about DevOps as well organizational change and transformation.