Avoiding Complexity
A Training by Arne Blankerts
Everybody talks about performance and dreams of snappy responses for their web application. But the full-stack framework with its powerful ORM and complex code infrastructure, various external libraries and the chronically overloaded database make the goal of a high-performance website a distant prospect. The integration with various, of course, slow APIs from third parties does the rest. Oh, and e-mails have to be sent as well...
If you follow the "best practices" of many frameworks, all this work is of course done at request time. But the Unix world has shown for decades that the secret of success lies in the interaction of highly specialized and, above all, small applications.
Time to apply this insight to your own code: In this Training, we will therefore rethink a classically built web application - and simply get rid of everything slowing us down.
About the Trainer
Arne Blankerts is a seasoned software architect and consultant helping organizations build robust, scalable, and secure software systems. With a career rooted in the era when networking first became mainstream, Arne has been pushing the boundaries of web development since the early days of PHP.
His open-source contributions, publications, conference presence, and consulting work reflect a blend of technical excellence and practical problem-solving.
When not immersed in code and architecture, Arne enjoys spending time with his wife and kids, exploring culinary creations in the kitchen, and, in the rare case of unalotted time left, reading fantasy novels.