Chad Carlson

Chad Carlson

Chad Carlson manages the Developer Relations team at Platform.sh. Chad spent a large portion of his professional career in academia, where he worked primarily in vision science laboratories investigating how our visual systems detect motion, natural scenes, and learning fits into a larger evolutionary context of neuroscience.

Today he can typically be found writing, cooking, or working on projects in Python, Node.js, Go, and whatever language Platform.sh wants another pair of eyes on.

Montreal 2023 sessions

Optimize deployment with a Continuous Observability Strategy

English session - Intermediate

Improving application performance isn’t just about providing more resources. What's needed is a strategy that connects production monitoring to tools that identify bottlenecks and enforce performance expectations continuously.
This talk will show how Blackfire.io makes it possible to better understand performance, enforce a performance budget on revisions, and make the environmental impact of development a measurable and optimizable objective.