Olivier Mehani, Author at Learnosity

Olivier Mehani

Senior Software Engineer

Olivier Mehani is a Senior Software Engineer at Learnosity. Having spent a decade in academia researching things like autonomous vehicles and mobile network performance, he now applies that brainpower to maintaining the smooth running of our backend applications and databases. He claims to have invented the laptop computer in 2010.

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Scaling in the time of COVID: How we run load tests at Learnosity

Senior Software Engineer Olivier Mehani on running a load test to keep Learnosity’s system performant in the face of dramatic user growth.

by Olivier Mehani Senior Software Engineer

How we manipulated Locust to test system performance under pressure

User increases during the back-to-school period challenges our engineers to find new ways of ensuring rock-solid system reliability at all times.

by Olivier Mehani Senior Software Engineer

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Workflows don’t stop at Git branches

One simple question made us examine our entire Git workflow and its interaction with the lifecycle of our tickets.

by Olivier Mehani Senior Software Engineer

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