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24 Jun 2020
18 Jun 2019
This talk was presented at the Boston Ember.js Community meetup at Salsify, Inc about a unique usecase for deploying FastBoot in order to do server-side rendering of Ember applications at scale. I review traditional, single-page web applications, I discuss server-side rendering by introducing Ember FastBoot. I showcase our architecture and provide a quick summary of how we use FastBoot in…
25 Apr 2018
This talk is a code walkthrough, implementing a date picker to showcase the power of ember-changeset and contextual components. Given at the Ember Boston Community meetup. Ember-changeset is an addon that provides an abstraction over Ember models such that only valid data will ever be set in a model. Contextual components are a set of conventions that allow a developer…
23 Apr 2018
Having a clean code with single responsibility is important, and doing that for model filtering can be easy and very powerful. Believe me. This blog post is related to a talk I gave on April, 2018 on Darkmira Tour PHP 2018, in Brasília/DF, Brazil, with the same title. The slides are on SpeakerDeck. Filtering models … Continue reading QueryFilter: A…
4 Sept 2015
Every year Bazaarvoice R&D throws BVIO, an internal technical conference followed by a two-day hackathon. These conferences are an opportunity for us to focus on unlocking the power of our network, data, APIs, and platforms as well as have some fun in the process. We invite keynote speakers from within BV, from companies who use […]
24 Jul 2015
My Developers Are Smarter Than Your DBAs by @Nick_Craver What would you say...you do here? Last month at Stack Overflow: 1,468,389,303 Page Views 5,183,954,727 HTTP Hits 71,562,833,811,315 Bytes Sent 3,202,505,376 CDN Hits 54,400,000,000,000 CDN Bytes 19,532,899,854 SQL Queries 81,505,688,410 Redis Ops 18.2ms Average Render Time ...at roughly 5-10% capacity How do we do that? Go that way, really fast. If…
14 Jun 2014
Check out Bazaarvoice IO 2014 Technical Conference keynote speaker, Theo Schlossnagle, @postwait, CEO of Circonus discussing The Rise of the Machines and Data PTSD
Check out Bazaarvoice IO 2014 Technical Conference keynote speaker Otis Gospodnetic, @otisg, Founder of Sematext, Committer on Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Mahout, OpenRelevance, and author of Lucene in Action discussing the Open Source Search Evolution
Check out Bazaarvoice IO 2014 Technical Conference Keynote speaker Bob Metcalfe, @BobMetcalfe, Professor of Innovation at the University of Texas, discussing Metcalfe’s Law After 40 Years of Ethernet
Check out Bazaarvoice IO 2014 Technical Conference keynote speaker Greg Brockman, @thegdb, CTO of Stripe and designer of the Stripe CTF contests discussing how they scaled Stripe from 4 to 94 employees
11 Apr 2014
Looks like everyone had a blast at bv.io this year! Thank yous go out to the conference speakers and hackathon participants for making this year outstanding. Here are some tweets and images from the conference: RT @bazaarbrett: Hackathon is kicking off, very glad to be here! #bvhackathon pic.twitter.com/q8dnfqlQxh — Bazaarvoice (@Bazaarvoice) April 2, 2014 https://twitter.com/bentonporter/status/451362916181090304 […]
3 Oct 2013
Every year Bazaarvoice holds an internal technical conference for our engineers. Each conference has a theme and as a part of these conferences we invite noted experts in fields related to the theme to give presentations. The latest conference was themed “unlocking the power of our data.” You can read more about it here. In […]
26 Sept 2013
Every year Bazaarvoice holds an internal technical conference for our engineers. Each conference has a theme and as a part of these conferences we invite noted experts in fields related to the theme to give presentations. The latest conferences was themed “unlocking the power of our data.” You can read more about it here. The […]
29 Aug 2013
As part of our internal BV I/O conference we’ve previously profiled on the blog, we had Adrian Cockroft, Cloud Architect at Netflix, come give us an overview of a lot of Netflix’s architecture as well as information on their multitude of open source projects and the ways Netflix is engaging the community to contribute. He […]
11 Jul 2013
It has not been long since the holy war between SQL and NoSQL database technologies faded, and now we see a new contender, NewSQL, rising. What is it? Will it cause another round of the war? Recently at Bazaarvoice we hosted an informational session on VoltDB, one of the better known NewSQL solutions, with several engineers and […]
22 Jun 2013
Greetings all! In the world of SaaS, wiser men than I have referred to Operations as the “Secret Sauce” that distinguishes you from your competition. As manager of one of our DevOps teams, I wanted to talk to you about how Bazaarvoice uses the cloud and how we engineer our systems for maximum reliability. You […]
18 Jun 2013
In late May the Bazaarvoice team was delighted to speak again as a part of Database Month in New York City, and we were excited to speak about our recent work with Cassandra & Elastic Search. We discussed our goals for replacing the Bazaarvoice data infrastructure, as well as our hopes for the new system, […]
4 May 2012
We recently delivered this presentation titled “How to Scale Big on MySQL? Break a Few Rules!” as part of Database Week here in New York City. The presentation is a lighthearted, and informative take on how Bazaarvoice Engineering has been able to take MySQL to billions of requests per month. The slides and video are […]