Michael Halligan
Blogger, DatacenterJunkie

Michael T. Halligan is a serial entrepreneur with over 5 years of experience in IT architecture and operations. His primary role is chief technical officer of BitPusher, LLC, a managed application hosting firm based out of San Francisco and Seattle. He is currently starting up a new Web application providing semantic search services to the convention industry. He previously held architectural and management positions at start-ups including Kontiki, Napster, and Register.com.

Sessions

1:00pm Tuesday, 06/24/2008

Success: A Survival Guide

Operations
Location: Salon E

Adam Jacob (Opscode), Shayan Zadeh (Zoosk, Inc. ), Brian Moon (dealnews.com), Don MacAskill (SmugMug), John Allspaw (Etsy.com), Michael Halligan (DatacenterJunkie), Frank Mashraqi (Opportunities)

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(4.33, 3 ratings)

Success comes suddenly, and often means scaling from tens of servers to thousands in a few hours. This panel will explore what happens when you get TechCrunched, Dugg, Slashdotted, and even "Oprahed"... all at once. The focus will be on what the traffic looks like, how you can do to prepare in advance, and what to do when it happens. Read more.