{"id":867,"date":"2015-09-19T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T23:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=867"},"modified":"2015-09-19T13:34:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T18:34:36","slug":"featured-speaker-alan-lok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/featured-speaker-alan-lok\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: Alan Lok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/52961d711c7fd3570b4aafc3f3b2c24b?s=100&amp;r=pg&amp;d=mm\" alt=\"\" \/>&#8220;I am the director of DevOps at <a href=\"http:\/\/mercatus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mercatus Technologies<\/a>, a Toronto-based company that provide SaaS based eCommerce platform for grocery retailers. I also own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlx.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">WirelessLinx Inc.<\/a>, a consulting company in the GTA area that helps with website development (WordPress, Joomla, Liferay) and stack performance tuning\/analysis. Previously I was the developer advocate for YellowAPI, development manager for Mercatus Technologies and have worked on almost all development roles.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Presentation:\u00a0<span>Speeding up your WordPress Site<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;I have worked in many companies where the websites receive millions of pageviews per day, and performance is always top of mind for everyone. It&#8217;s always fun to be able to find ways of optimizing a stack and know you have lowered the response time by 200ms or reduce the page size by 200k! Every little bit counts when you want the best for your users.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>What unique perspective are you bringing to this talk?<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Performance is a topic that isn&#8217;t WordPress specific. Having worked in many different CMS platforms in PHP, Java, Ruby and .NET give me perspective on better practices on deployment and performance tuning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>What&#8217;s one really cool thing people will discover during your session?<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Speeding up your site can actually save you money in the long run!&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Toronto?<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;I look forward to meeting all of the users and developers of WordPress locally. Every time I attend WordCamp, I learn something new and make new friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am the director of DevOps at Mercatus Technologies, a Toronto-based company that provide SaaS based eCommerce platform for grocery retailers. I also own WirelessLinx Inc., a consulting company in the GTA area that helps with website development (WordPress, Joomla, Liferay) and stack performance tuning\/analysis. Previously I was the developer advocate for YellowAPI, development manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6358608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4636],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UjGY-dZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6358608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}