BigPipe's strength: available to all
I’ve been running a lot lately, and so have been listening to lots of podcasts!
Drupal 8.3: BigPipe experimental → stable!
Almost a year ago, BigPipe was the first experimental module added to Drupal 8.
BigPipe
Did you know that often the majority of the time spent generating a HTML page is spent on a few dynamic/uncacheable/personalized parts?
Drupal 8.1: BigPipe as an experimental module
Today, Drupal 8.1 has been released and it includes BigPipe as an experimental module.
BigPipe webinar
This talk covers everything in BigPipe (the webinar I did a few weeks ago was only an introdu
BigPipe introduction webinar
Acquia frequently does webinars and given my work on BigPipe, I was asked to present with Fabien Potencier (of
Performance Calendar 2015: "2013 is calling: are CMSes fast by default yet?"
This year, Performance Planet did an advent calendar again, just like the last few years.
Drupal 8's Dynamic Page Cache
Drupal 8 now has a Dynamic Page Cache. The Page Cache module only works for anonymous users, the Dynamic Page Cache module takes that a step further: it works for any user.
Drupal 8 now has page caching enabled by default
After more than a year and probably hundreds of patches, yesterday it finally happened!
renderviz: tool visualizing Drupal 8's render tree
I’m working on making Drupal 8 faster as part of my job at Acquia.
Render caching in Drupal 7 and 8
Together with Fabian Franz & Marco Molinari from Tag1 Consulting, I had a session about render caching in Drupal 7 and 8 at DrupalCon Amsterdam.
Performance Calendar 2013: "The real challenge: making the entire web fast"
This year, Performance Planet did an advent calendar again, just like the last few years.
Drupal 8: perf & ops — cache tags & pluggable asset optimization
For this short talk, I chose two particular improvements in Drupal 8 that will make a big difference for future Drupal sites’ performance and ops (infrastructure requirements).
Building really fast websites with Drupal 8
Drupal 8 is going to have better front-end performance for anonymous users out of the box: it is now smart enough to no longer load unnecessary JavaScript.
Practical WPO intro
I was asked to do an introductory session on WPO for the course “Network software and architectures” at Hasselt University and interwe
CDN webinar
Acquia frequently does Drupal-related webinars and given my background with CDN integration, I was asked to present
Easy Drupal CDN integration for fun and profit
Speed up your Drupal site with a CDN in a few minutes.
Working at Nascom!
On January 2, I announced that I was looking for a job. Since that announcement, I’ve talked with >65 companies.
Looking for a job
The time has finally come. I’m looking for a job!
First week at Facebook
While I obviously can’t publish the details here, the orientation was very cool.
Facebook internship: getting there
I didn’t expect the goodbye to be easy, but I never expected it to be so hard, either. I think it was one of the hardest things I ever did, on that 23rd of September, 2011.
Master thesis successfully defended!
On July 1, 2011, I successfully defended my master thesis at Hasselt University’s Expertise Centre for Digital Media.
FP-Stream-powered association rule mining over data streams with support for constraints
The last blog post I wrote about my master thesis was on June 1st.
FP-Growth-powered association rule mining with support for constraints
The previous blog post covering my master thesis was about the libraries I wrote for detecting browsers and
Internship with the Site Speed team at Facebook!
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining Facebook’s Site Speed team in Palo Alto, California on September 26, 2011 for a 12-week in