Bruno is a blockchain developer and code auditor from Croatia with Master’s Degrees in Computer Science and English Language and Literature. He's been a web developer for 10 years until JavaScript drove him away. He now runs a cryptocurrency business at Bitfalls.com via which he makes blockchain tech approachable to the masses, and runs Coinvendor, an on-boarding platform for people to easily buy cryptocurrency. He’s also a developer evangelist for Diffbot.com, a San Francisco-based AI-powered machine vision web scraper.
Bruno's articles
How to Use Varnish and Cloudflare for Maximum Caching
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno Škvorc shows how to implement Varnish as an additional caching layer, along with the Cloudflare CDN, to increase an app's GTMetrix score dramatically.
PHP-level Performance Optimization with Blackfire
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno applies Blackfire to a freshly started project to identify PHP performance bottlenecks, establishing a process of continuous performance testing.
MetaMask: a Simple Way to use the Ethereum Blockchain
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno Skvorc introduces MetaMask, a simple and practical solution for using the Ethereum blockchain and keeping Ether in your browser, contributing greatly to the mainstream-ization of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency.
What Is a CDN and How Does It Work?
By Bruno Skvorc,
What's a CDN? How do Content Delivery Networks work anyway, and what's so special about them? Which one should you choose? Come find out!
An Introduction to MyEtherWallet
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno Skvorc walks through the process of generating an Ethereum wallet and sending and receiving ether through the MyEtherWallet interface.
Ethereum: Internal Transactions & Token Transfers Explained
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno Skvorc explains how to interpret the transaction types in Ethereum on Etherscan, showing how to say, with a reasonable degree of certainty, what was transferred to whom, when, and where from, as well as identify what triggered it.
Proof of Stake vs Proof of Work
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno Skvorc compares and contrasts Proof of Work (PoW), Proof of Stake (PoS), Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) and Proof of Authority (PoA) as well, examining how they work and their pros and cons.
Ethereum: How Transaction Costs are Calculated
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno Skvorc explains how transaction costs on Ethereum are calculated, covering the concepts of gas, the Ethereum Virtual Machine, ether, GWei, gas limit and gas price.
Ethereum Wallets: Send and Receive Ether with MyEtherWallet
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno Skvorc takes you through the process of generating your first Ethereum wallet and sending and receiving ether through the MyEtherWallet interface.
A Deep Dive into Cryptography
By Bruno Skvorc,
You've heard of encryption, but do you know what it actually is and how it works? Bruno Skvorc takes you back to the basics and explains encryption, describes the different types, and provides algorithm examples. If you've ever wanted to understand this but it seemed too complicated, you'll love this post.