Eric Ries

IMVU

Eric Ries is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including _The Black Art of Java Game Programming_ (Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. In 2007, BusinessWeek.com named Ries one of the Tech’s Best Young Entrepreneurs. He serves on the Advisory Board of many technology startups, including pbWiki, Sonicswap, Bunchball, Freepledge and Marin Software.

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10:50am - 11:50am Thursday, 04/17/2008

Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth

Architecture and Technology, Business and Case Studies, Replication and Scale-Out
Location: Ballroom E

Eric Ries (IMVU), Chris Hondl (IMVU)

In the course of six months IMVU’s user base quadrupled in size. This session will focus on the techniques used to incrementally add scalability without making large changes to the application layer or disrupt ongoing feature development by the rest of the team. Read more.

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