Matias Woloski’s Blog

Update: here is the video of the presentation (thanks to Martin Salias)

Couple of week ago the Regional Architect Forum took place on Sheraton Pilar (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Ezequiel Glinsky and Juan Ladetto kindly invited us to talk about a recent case study we did with an insurance company Grupo Sancor Seguros where we created the foundations for an S+S platform.

I had the opportunity  to deliver a presentation together with Nicolas Sabena who is part of Grupo Sancor Seguros development team. During the presentation we talked about how we chose a couple of use cases related to policy issuance as an excuse to:

• Teach them the Agile methodology that we use at Southworks
• Start building the foundation of a corporate S+S platform.

The picture on the right shows how we approached the S+S platform requirements. I will extend on that in a future post.

I also had the chance to meet with many people and exchange experiences around S+S, day to day architecture and lots of juicy things.

Last week, June 4th, together with Pablo Costantini (a coworker specialist on web technologies) we delivered a presentation about high performance websites at the local MIX event. There is a well known book from Steve Souders, former Chief Performance Officer of Yahoo! called High Performance Web Sites and we based the presentation on it, and also showed how to implement the rules using Microsoft technlogies (ASP.NET in particular)

The attendees gave us good feedback saying that the presentation was pragmatic and straight to the point.

In my opinion, this book and the tips we gave are things we usually oversee in web applications that can really make a difference on user experience. We achieved 40-50% of response time reduction by applying them and the effort is virtually zero.

Feel free to reuse the deck and the demo that are published here.