Till Krüss on Object Cache Pro, WordPress, plugins, testing, and performance — Post Status Draft 126

Back in August, I had a long conversation with Till Krüss (edited down to <60 minutes here) about his path into WordPress, Laravel, and performance. Till is the developer and owner of Object Cache Pro, "a business class Redis object cache backend for WordPress." OCP offers a unique and highly successful model for partnerships between a WordPress plugin product business and a valuable niche market: hosting companies and anyone running WordPress sites at scale. Nexcess is the latest host to adopt OCP, which they announced earlier this week.Till’s particular niche is not for everyone, but some of his ideas and achievements are very portable. For one thing, what plugin owner has not felt the pain of an extraordinarily busy support forum? Till is up to (wait for it..) 5-10 minutes a day on support — which he aims to decrease. How? End-to-end unit testing to ensure the highest code quality. It’s an idea that needs to become a reality and a habit in the third party WordPress product ecosystem