Apachecon US registration now open!
Registration for Apachecon US 2008, in the wonderful city of New Orleans this November, is now open.
For the first time ever, instead of just speaking, I’ll be running a 2 day tutorial/hands-on workshop on how to scale a webserver/site. Both intensive performance tuning, and the architectural considerations that come with high scalability.
Based on what it takes to performance-tune;
- a single webserver to handle over 80,000 concurrent downloads
- a website to many thousands of SSL connections per second
and the thought, state-avoidance, cacheability and expandability that goes into turning;
- clusters of slow dynamic back-ends into a speedy and responsive user experience
Everything from the basics of configuration and benchmarking to high level monitoring will be covered.
It should be fun! There might be a small bit of theory; how virtual memory managers, file-systems and schedulers work, but the emphasis will be on the practical and experimental. Attendees will be given remote machines for server and client testing, and by going and doing it, we’ll step through the configuration, test and tune iteration cycle.
Let me know if you have any suggestions!
3 Replies to "Apachecon US registration now open!"
AJ on August 3, 2008
That should be “not make it there”
patpro on August 3, 2008
Ho yes, you HAVE to publish everything online, please :)
AJ on August 3, 2008
Drat, its looking like I will make it there, and this this tut sounds great. Well done Colm. Can I presume that you will be putting materials online? *please* :)