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Speaking at Web 2.0 Expo 2008

  • 03. Jan
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  • Capacity Planning, Talks, WebOps
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  • 4 Comments

I’m gonna give a talk in capacity planning for web operations at the Web 2.0 Expo in April. Wondering if I should submit the same sort of talk for the Velocity conference in June. Don’t want to be redundant or anything....
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A new place for Web Ops to talk the talk and walk the walk

  • 15. Nov
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  • Talks, WebOps
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There’s a new conference in town, and it looks to have the really good schmitz. Good work Jesse and Steve, I’m really looking forward to this....
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Slides from ‘Capacity Planning for LAMP’ talk at MySQL Conf 2007

  • 27. Apr
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  • Caching, Slides, Talks
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  • 9 Comments

This was a fun talk. I saw a lot of nods in the audience when I mentioned things pertaining to social applications (unpredictable usage, etc.). A lot of folks ask questions about how we use ganglia at Flickr. A PDF of my slides are here. If anyone can tell me how to get Keynote2 slides...
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Speaking at the 2007 MySQL Conference

  • 30. Jan
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  • Capacity Planning, Talks, WebOps
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Looks like I’ll be talking about capacity planning. See you there!...
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slides from WebBuilder2.0

  • 11. Dec
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  • Slides, Talks
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I’m not 100% sure where FTPOnline will put my slides…if I don’t find out soon, then I’ll put them here. This is a description of the talk I gave, and here are the slides....
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