Scott Ruthfield
.Founder, Rooster Park Consulting

Scott Ruthfield is founder of Rooster Park Consulting, a Seattle-based engineering leadership and custom software development consultancy, and is the acting VP of Engineering at Virtuoso, the industry’s leading leisure travel network. He was the previous VP of Engineering at WhitePages.com, and ran various technology + business teams at Amazon.com. He very occasionally blogs at scottru.com.

Sessions

9:45am Monday, 06/23/2008

Jiffy: Open Source Performance Measurement and Instrumentation

Performance
Location: Salons E-F

Scott Ruthfield (Rooster Park Consulting)

Average rating:

(4.17, 6 ratings)

Jiffy is a new open-source end-to-end system built by the WhitePages.com team for instrumenting your web pages, capturing client-side timings for any event that you determine, and storing and reporting on those timings. Learn about the motivations, goals, lessons learned, and how to participate. Read more.

1:00pm Monday, 06/23/2008

Measuring Performance

Performance
Location: Salon E

Steve Souders (Google), Ryan Breen (Gomez Inc. ), Bill Scott (PayPal), Ernest Mueller (Bazaarvoice), Scott Ruthfield (Rooster Park Consulting)

Average rating:

(3.80, 5 ratings)

Fast web pages are critical to a good user experience, but what is "response time" and how should it be measured? This panel discusses what parts of page loading should be measured and the importance of perceived versus instrumented speed. Read more.