Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Blogging| Life| Notebook Lust| Technology| Work| smp
22 Aug 2006The last 4 weeks have been extremely traumatic for me. It has culminated in an extended period of renewal, reflection and rejuvenation, where I have looked back over the last 15 years of my life and asked, “What next?”.
An interesting note on the word rejuvenation: it means to reclaim your childlike state (ok, I’m playing [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
27 Mar 2006Netcraft reported that World of Warcraft was having a wee bit o’ performance hell. [here]
Guess a few wizards are going through withdrawal right now.
Looks like Joi Ito, a serious World of Warcraft fiend, might have to mount up his troops for an all out assault on this one!
PS: Looks like it just staggered to life! [...]
In: GrabPERF
15 Mar 2005I have reduced the number of measurements taken by the GrabPERF system down to 24 URLs every 15 minutes.
Also, I have purged the archives and data tables of all of the inactive measurements.
I feel a little sad, yet relieved that I am starting to trim this system back. I feel that unless I get some [...]
Web Performance, Part IX: Curse of the Single Metric
In: Commentary| The Web| Web Performance| Web performance concepts| WebPerformance.Org| Work
5 Sep 2008While this post is aimed at Web performance, the curse of the single metric affects our everyday lives in ways that we have become oblivious to.
When you listen to a business report, the stock market indices are an aggregated metric used to represent the performance of a set group of stocks.
When you read about economic indicators, [...]