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The Dichotomy of the Web: Andy King’s Website Optimization
In: Commentary| Technology| Web Performance| Work
30 Aug 2008The Web is a many-splendored thing, with a very split personality. One side is drive to find ways to make the most money possible, while the other is driven to implement cool technology in an effective and efficient manner (most of the time).
Andy King, in Website Optimization (O’Reilly), tries to address these two competing forces [...]
Bylined Article up at StreamingMedia.com
29 Aug 2008My bylined article Industry Perspectives: Best Practices for Flawless Web Multimedia Streams is up! Go check it out!
The discussion centers around how to approach monitoring and measuring the performance of Streaming Media, an area that is far more challenging than traditional Web page and site performance measurement.
There are a number of challenges an organization faces [...]
Hulk break Web site! Yargh!
In: Web Performance| Work
17 Apr 2008On type of my usual performance consulting, I have recently taken on the role of Web site breaker/stress tester at work. Our updated external load-testing tool is coming out soon, but we have some clients who need some of its functions now.
So, what does this mean? Well, I have learned a lot about how to [...]
Many, many years ago, I started my depressing voyage through the world of work at an Overwaitea food store in my home town. As a teenager, I expected to work so weird hours, and accept some level of abuse from the “adults” I worked with.
However, it seems that the organization now expects all their employees [...]
Travelling with Bill
22 Oct 2007My colleague Roger went on his first business road trip last week.
It was from hell. He spent some time detailing the whole hellish experience here.
On November 14-15, I am travelling with Roger to Columbus, OH. I have promised to make it a much more…enjoyable experience.
Technorati Tags: travel, business, bad trips, Los Angeles
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Dear Apache Software Foundation: FIX THE MSIE SSL KEEPALIVE SETTINGS!
In: Software| Technology| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org| Work
6 Jun 2007Dear Apache Software Foundation, and the developers of the Apache Web server:
I would like to thank you for developing a great product. I rely on it daily to host my own sites, and a large number of people on the Internet seem to share my love of this software.
However, it appears that you seem to [...]
The client visit this week (and don’t expect too many details) was to MySpace. It is interesting to get an inside perspective on their performance challenges, as well as their beyond unique infrastructure.
I am bagged, and off to write up a document for another client.
Tags: LA, MySpace, myspace.com
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I will be in LA Tuesday-Thursday this week on business. I will be around, so ping me in any of the usual ways.
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If you need me, I’ll be dead…or in Tucson, whichever comes first
In: Work
20 Apr 2007I’ll be in Tucson for work next all next week, staying at the supposedly luxurious Loews Ventana Canyon Resort.
Tags: Work, Loews Hotels, Ventana Canyon, Tucson
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Web Performance Concepts Series – Revisited
In: Commentary| Web Performance| Web performance concepts| WebPerformance.Org| Work
31 Aug 2008Two years ago I created a series of five blog articles, aimed at both business and technical readers, with the goal of explaining the basic statistical concepts and methods I use when analyzing Web performance data in my role as a Web performance consultant.
Most of these ideas were core to my thinking when I developed [...]