Tom Hopkins

With a varied background working across online and offline channels, Tom's career has taken in consumer tech journalism, video, magazines and marketing communications for local government and utilities organisations . In his spare time, he enjoys movies, writing, travel and playing music.

Posts: 3 posts
Role: Former Content Manager

September 29, 2020

How Scomis improves the scalability and performance of its Hosted Application Service

A specialist IT services provider in the education market, Scomis provides hosted application services for over 600 primary and secondary schools across 19 local authority areas...

Application Management Microsoft Performance

April 2, 2020

Update on HAproxy HTTP/2 HPACK Decoder Vulnerability (2 April 2020)

A critical vulnerability in HAProxy’s HTTP/2 HPACK decoder in versions 1.8 and above has been discovered. This does not impact the majority of Loadbalancer.org customers...

Security HAProxy Open source

April 1, 2020

Why Netflix, Amazon, YouTube and PlayStation reducing their traffic won’t save the Internet

Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, Disney and Apple recently began streaming content at lower bit rates - but is it actually improving performance or just good PR?..

AWS / Azure / GCP Performance