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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!
Apachecon EU 2008
Somewhat unexpectedly, I’ve spent today at Apachecon Europe 2008 in Amsterdam, and managed to deliver a talk on APR on short-notice. It’s been great to catch up with people I haven’t seen in a long time, years in many cases. Hopefully I’ll be in New Orleans later this year to catch up over a full apachecon, and get back to hacking again.
The presentation wasn’t exactly well-prepared, so there are only 13 slides, but for the record … here they are. And yep, even the Hello World example contains a bug!