John Allspaw

Flickr (Yahoo!)

John has worked in systems operations for over ten years in biotech, government and online media. He started out tuning parallel clusters running vehicle crash simulations for the U.S. government, and then moved on to the Internet in 1997. He built the backing infrastructures at Salon.com, InfoWorld.com, Friendster.com and Flickr.com, where he currently manages the Operations Engineering group. He is the author of “The Art of Capacity Planning” published by O’Reilly.

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1:00pm Tuesday, 06/24/2008

Success: A Survival Guide

Operations
Location: Salon E

Adam Jacob (Opscode), Shayan Zadeh (Zoosk, Inc. ), Brian Moon (dealnews.com), Don MacAskill (SmugMug), John Allspaw (Flickr (Yahoo!)), Michael Halligan (DatacenterJunkie), Frank Mashraqi (NetEdge)

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Success comes suddenly, and often means scaling from tens of servers to thousands in a few hours. This panel will explore what happens when you get TechCrunched, Dugg, Slashdotted, and even "Oprahed"... all at once. The focus will be on what the traffic looks like, how you can do to prepare in advance, and what to do when it happens. Read more.

3:45pm Tuesday, 06/24/2008

Capacity Management

General
Location: Salon E

John Allspaw (Flickr (Yahoo!))

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Planning and managing capacity for a fast-growing website can be a balancing act between buying too little/late, and too much/soon. Your process of capacity planning should be *adaptive*, *adjustable*, and include more than just system statistics. Measurement, architecture, and economics are all equally important to having your site perform. Read more.

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