Tristan Bessoussa, CTO: infrastructure, Symfony, serverless and AI, measured

Tristan Bessoussa, CTO. Configs, benchmarks and numbers from real projects.

CTO · writing here since 2014

Tristan Bessoussa

I lead engineering teams and write about infrastructure, Symfony, serverless and AI. Here: configs, benchmarks and numbers from real projects.

Latest article · October 8, 2026

Six sites, from idea to production, in under two hours.

At under two hours and about $120, they become a reasonable bet.

105 minfrom the afternoon's first commit to its last, five of the six sites in production

The whole archive 23 articles, 2014–2026

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2026Six sites, from idea to production, in under two hours. 2026 · AI105 minfrom the afternoon's first commit to its last, five of the six sites in production8
2024How I Used AI to Hack My CrossFit Waitlist Problem (and Why It Changed My View on AI Development) 2024 · AI20% → 100%cancelled slots secured4
20215 yearsA healthy development environment in 2021: hello Docker, goodbye virtual machines 2021 · Dev toolsno measure7
Test-driving Hidora, a Swiss PaaS 2021 · Infra · 6/72,048 msaverage response time, vs 492 ms at Scalingo5
20206 yearsHow Serverless Saved Us For $2. 2020 · Infra2 min2,000 PDFs generated, instead of 11 h6
20197 yearsHow not to be depressed when working with WordPress 2019 · PHP/Symfony−40%page generation time16
Series · Comparing PaaS offerings
PaaS benchmark: Clever Cloud vs Scalingo vs Hidora 2019 · Infra · 7/7492 msScalingo at €10.8/month3
French PaaS providers are in a boat: Platform.sh lies at anchor 2019 · Infra · 5/7€40for 0.8 GB of memory3
French PaaS providers are in a boat: Scalingo stays afloat 2019 · Infra · 4/7no measure4
French PaaS providers are in a boat: Clever Cloud rights the ship 2019 · Infra · 3/7+€54/yrprice gap with Scalingo6
French PaaS providers are in a boat: OVH falls overboard 2019 · Infra · 2/713 daysuntil the first support reply4
OVH, Clever Cloud, Platform.sh and Scalingo are in a boat: comparing French PaaS providers 2019 · Infra · 1/74 PaaScompared2
20179 yearsGetting ALPN negotiation on Debian 9 (stretch) to activate HTTP2 with nginx 2017 · Infrano measure1
201610 yearsSeries · An application migration strategy
Taking stock of our migration 2016 · PHP/Symfony · 3/32 yearsof migration5
A closer look at continuous migration 2016 · PHP/Symfony · 2/332 / daydeployments at peak4
Why we migrated our application 2016 · PHP/Symfony · 1/370%of forms on obsolete code4
201511 yearsThe PR Review Watcher, save time when reviewing code 2015 · Dev toolsno measure2
Introducing the pull request builder 2015 · Dev tools20 minto get a test environment per PR2
201412 yearsAnsible: from provisioning to application deployment 2014 · Infrano measure1
The impact of the migration: performance doubled 2014 · Infra÷2response time, 1 s → 300–400 ms2
Apache vs Nginx / php5-fpm: making an application respond 2x faster 2014 · Infrano measure4
MySQL vs MariaDB: making an application respond 2x faster 2014 · Infrano measure4
OVH IP Load Balancing: beware the multi-datacenter option 2014 · Infrano measure3