Alexander Podelko

17th International Conference on #Performance Engineering (#ICPE2026) was great. Proceedings are available at dl.acm.org/doi/proceeding… and companion (workshops, tutorials, etc) proceedings at dl.acm.org/doi/proceeding…. Only published papers there.

Slides from the Workshop on #LoadTesting and #Benchmarking of Software Systems (#LTB2026) posted on ltb2026.github.io @ICPEconf

So we're talking about S3 vs NVMe? Let me talk a little about Aurora and Aurora DSQL, and how we think about the trade-offs for each of those. I'll start with DSQL. In DSQL, S3 is the authoritative, stable, store of 'older' data.

Andrea Pellegrini's vision for #performance engineer role #ICPE2026

The International Conference on Performance Engineering #ICPE2026 started with Bjarne Stroustrup keynote

#LoadTesting and #Benchmarking of Software Systems Workshop (#LTB2026) program published at ltb2026.github.io Keynote by Bjarne Stroustrup. Followed by other workshops and International Conference on #Performance Engineering (#ICPE2026) icpe2026.spec.org @ICPEconf

Taming the JVM Latency Monster dzone.com/articles/tamin… via @DZoneInc

See you on March 17th for "The Hidden Performance Cost of Web Videos" by Vlad Malanin! Where: Cloudflare's NYC office Time: Tuesday, March 17th @ 6PM Vlad Malanin, is the Co-Founder & CTO of SpeedSize. RSVP: meetup.com/web-performanc… See you there!

Last chance to submit a presentations (until Feb 16, only extended abstract is needed to submit) for the Workshop on #LoadTesting and #Benchmarking (#LTB2026) ltb2026.github.io May 4-5 in Florence, Italy. Co-located with Conference on #Performance Engineering (#ICPE2026)

Thanks to @Rich_Harris for his Jan talk "Frameworks for humans in the age of machines"! Video/Slides: 📺 youtube.com/watch?v=SmHgty… 🖼️ frameworks-for-humans.vercel.app Next Thursday, Feb 12th @ Cloudflare we have 2 talks! RSVP: meetup.com/web-performanc… Joint event w @SvelteSocietyNY

Join us on February 12th for two talks at @Cloudflare's NYC office! Talk 1: "Ad-Supported Sites Without the Slowdown" - Kathryn Lovell Talk 2: "Telescope Test Agent" - Mike Kozicki RSVP: meetup.com/web-performanc… See you there! #webperf #wpo #perfmatters #meetup #nyc #talks

You still can submit a paper (until Jan 26) or presentations (until Feb 16) for International Workshop on #LoadTestingand #Benchmarking (#LTB2026) ltb2026.github.io May 4 or 5 in Florence, Italy. Co-located with the International Conference on #Performance Engineering

I presented 'Performance Engineering: New and Conflicting Trends' slideshare.net/slideshow/perf… at #Performance Advisory Council back in October 2025. Thanks to Bryan Cole and @Tricentis for organizing this great event!

Join us THIS THURSDAY, Jan 15, "Frameworks for humans in the age of machines" with Rich Harris @Rich_Harris PLEASE update your RSVPs if you can't attend! Registration is now closed! RSVP: meetup.com/web-performanc… Joint event with @SvelteSocietyNY |#webperformance #meetup

📣 CFP: DevOpsSustain 2026 (2nd Int’l Workshop on DevOps for Sustainability) @ #FSE2026 (Montréal, Jul 5–9, 2026). Submit work on energy-aware DevOps, green AI, monitoring & optimization. 🗓️ Deadline: Feb 12, 2026 🔗 devopssustain.github.io/ws2026/

Here is my latest article on the world of databases: cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/20… All the hot topics from the last year: • More Postgres action! • MCP for everyone! • MongoDB gets litigious with FerretDB! • File formats! • Market movements! • The richest person in the world!

Performance Hints Over the years, my colleague Sanjay Ghemawat and I have done a fair bit of diving into performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document a couple of years ago as a way of identifying some general principles and we've recently published a version of it externally. We'd love any feedback you might have! Read the full doc at: abseil.io/fast/hints.html

Web Performance Calendar day 31 article 1/5: @ceckoslab shares that BasicRUM (open-source Real User Monitoring tool) will have its source code released Q1 2026. Self-hosted, privacy-friendly, with AI-powered insights & dashboards to spot performance issues calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/open-sour…

Web Performance Calendar day 31 article 2/5: @KeerthanaK17 on making friends with Chrome DevTools and transforming it into a powerful tool for deep understanding, debugging, and improving of real-world web performance calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/chrome-de…

Web Performance Calendar day 31 article 3/5: Can AI meaningfully help with real-world performance analysis? @WebTwitr explores how to train AI/LLM agents to interpret complex browser data (like DevTools traces) into actionable insights. calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/teaching-…