Alexander Podelko

I sat down with Darko Mesaros to talk about Kiro, specification-driven development, and putting AI-powered development in context of the history of computing. Is an LLM a compiler? What is a spec? How are specs like SQL? Check it out: youtube.com/watch?v=OdD9eL…

Performance measurements… and the people who love them buff.ly/CrBWrdW

Guerrilla Capacity Planning (GCAP) Online — EU Edition — registration is now OPEN Dates: July 21 through August 1, 2025 Times: 1500 - 1900 CET perfdynamics.com/Classes/schedu… Click on the DETAILS box (at the RHS) to register eventbrite.com/e/guerrilla-ca…

Video youtube.com/watch?v=6ros6i… from Akshay Nair's "Performance on a Budget: Lessons from Building a Nonprofit SaaS Platform" talk. To get notified when next video is up, subscribe and hit the bell button #webperf #nyc

Slides from Akshay Nair's "Performance on a Budget: Lessons from Building a Nonprofit SaaS Platform" talk: github.com/nywebperf/spea… We'll also have video posted to our YouTube channel shortly, subscribe here to get updates! youtube.com/user/NYWebPerf… #webperf #nyc

A SPDY RECAP in about 100 seconds: What does @Shopify need? @yoavweiss sheds light on what it means and looks like to support browser standards as a non browser company by providing current WIPs at Shopify. 🎥 Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=VEYxyN…

#ICPE2025 Highlights. Finally I met in person @h_ingo . First I reached out to him about MongoDB's change point detection paper (ICPE2020) - now it became Apache Otava project - see history and details in Henrik's blog post blog.nyrkio.com/2025/05/08/wel…

#ICPE2025 highlights. Dr. Ahmed E. Hassan's keynote linkedin.com/posts/ahmed-e-… dived into how Foundational Models change Software #Performance Engineering. @ICPEconf

#ICPE2025 Highlights. @MarcJBrooker's keynote 'Good #Performance for Bad Days' dived deep into complex system behavior - to areas that are usually not investigated by standard approaches. Summary blog post: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/05/2… Slides: brooker.co.za/blog/resources… @ICPEconf

#ICPE2025 highlights. Dr. Lizy John's keynote lca.ece.utexas.edu/pubs/icpe25_Ke… is probably the best AI review for #performance engineers I saw so far.

Interested in how we're thinking about MCP, A2A, and the agent-to-tool and agent-to-agent protocol landscape at AWS? Check out this blog post I wrote with Nick and Swami.

I presented '#Performance Engineering: New and Conflicting Trends' at the WEPPE workshop at #ICPE2025. Slides alexpodelko.com/docs/WEPPE25_P… and short paper dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…. The goal was to stir up a discussion - which it did.

Congrats to Samuel Kounev, Klaus-Dieter Lange, & Jóakim von Kistowski on the release of the 2nd edition of their book, "Systems Benchmarking - For Scientists and Engineers," published by Springer! 🎉 Read more: ow.ly/nEqn50VI4eI #SystemsBenchmarking #PerformanceEvaluation

Apparently the "Performance Engineering" name was coined in 1981 by Dr. Connie Smith. The panel of founders at #ICPE25.

🚀 Call for Contributors If you're interested in contributing to the #JVM #Performance #Benchmarks project - an initiative that gained significant traction in the #Java community through our recent #JDK17 and #JDK11 analyses - check out the repo: 🔗 github.com/ionutbalosin/j…

ICPE/WEEPE Monday, May 5th @ 9am EDT esulabsolutions.godaddysites.com/sponsored-even…

📢 Final reminder: The Amazon Research Awards' spring 2025 call for proposals closes on May 7. Successful proposals will receive AWS promotional credits, training resources, and more. #AmazonResearchAwards

Just 5 days left until #ICPE 2025 kicks off in Toronto! Get ready to connect with leading researchers and industry pros May 5-9 for cutting-edge discussions on system performance and #benchmarking. Don't miss our incredible speaker line-up – register now! icpe2025.spec.org