Schedule: General sessions

Focused, expert-led breakout sessions will offer both analysis and practical advice on a wide variety of subject matters.

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10:00am Monday, 06/23/2008
Importance of Operations and Performance
Location: Salons E-F
Artur Bergman (Wikia)
Importance of Operations and Performance. Read more.
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2:15pm Monday, 06/23/2008
Stress, Load, and Performance Testing in Quality Assurance
Location: Salon E
Goranka Bjedov (Google)
What exactly are the differences between stress testing, load testing, and performance testing? Are there more things that can and should be done, and who should be responsible for doing them? This talk will attempt to answer these questions. Read more.
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9:15am Tuesday, 06/24/2008
Ignite War Stories Winners
Location: Salons E-F
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9:30am Tuesday, 06/24/2008
EUCALYPTUS - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems
Location: Salons E-F
Rich Wolski (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB))
In this talk, we will present Eucalyptus - an open source implementation of cloud computing that is interface compatible with Amazon.com's EC2. Read more.
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11:10am Tuesday, 06/24/2008
Fiddler
Location: Salons E-F
Eric Lawrence (Microsoft)
The Fiddler Web Debugger enables capture, measurement, replay, and modification of HTTP and HTTPS traffic from virtually any application, including all major browsers. A highly-customizable freeware platform, Fiddler is extensible using either Javascript or any .NET language. Read more.
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11:20am Tuesday, 06/24/2008
AOL PageTest
Location: Salons E-F
Eric Goldsmith (AOL, LLC)
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3:45pm Tuesday, 06/24/2008
Capacity Management
Location: Salon E
John Allspaw (Flickr (Yahoo!))
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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