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23 Jun

Jiffy: Open Source Performance Monitoring

There’s a neat Open Source project that was announced today at Velocity (actually, it may have been announced at YAPC::NA already). It’s called Jiffy.
Jiffy is made up from a bunch of components:

A javascript library that allows you to start and stop timers (they call them marks and measures)
An Apache config to record the measures in [...]

20 Jun

Velocity is Monday!

I’m going to be at the Velocity Conference on Monday! I’ve been looking forward to this for a while now. There’s a few people I’m looking forward to meeting. The sessions look valuable to the work I’m doing right now.
Jeff Barr is speaking in a cloud computing panel. Don MacAskill is on another panel [...]

16 Nov

Velocity 2008

O’Reilly have announced a new conference called Velocity. From their front page:
Velocity is the new O’Reilly conference for people building at Internet scale, happening on June 23-24, 2008 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott in Burlingame, California.
Web companies, big and small, face many of the same challenges: sites must be faster, infrastructure needs to scale, [...]

17 Aug

Fog Buzz Wolrd Tour

Joel on Software is coming to Vancouver! I coincidently already have the day off. I was a bit worried he was going to come when I was out of town.
I’m looking forward to seeing Joel speak, and I might actually learn something. I’ve been reading his blog for a bit. I don’t always agree with [...]

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