Chris Bissell

Chris Bissell
Chief Software Architect, MySpace

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Chris is the Chief Software Architect at MySpace.com. In other words, he comes up with overly convoluted ‘design patterns’ in order to lengthen the development process.

Sessions

2:30pm Tuesday, 06/23/2009
A Preview of MySpace's Open-sourced Performance Tracker
Web Performance
 Location: Regency 2
Yadid Ramot (MySpace.com), Jeremy Custenborder (MySpace.com), Chris Bissell (MySpace)
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7:30pm Tuesday, 06/23/2009
Spike Night
Event
 Location: Regency Ballroom
Scott Ruthfield (Rooster Park Consulting), Chris Bissell (MySpace), Ryan Nelson (Joyent)
Average rating: ***..
(3.80, 10 ratings)
Join us Tuesday evening for Spike Night. This engaging, real-time Web Performance shootout is a chance to see and learn about how real, high-traffic websites deal with massive increases in load, either expected or unexpected. We'll see real-world management of traffic increases - graphs, tools, the whole shebang. Read more.
2:30pm Wednesday, 06/24/2009
Fistful of Sand: Monitoring Code Performance at MySpace.com
Web Performance
 Location: Regency 1
Chris Bissell (MySpace), Jeremy Custenborder (MySpace.com), Yadid Ramot (MySpace.com)
Average rating: ***..
(3.43, 7 ratings)
Your site is deployed and performs to satisfaction. You sit back in your chair and contemplate a future of happy efficiency. You hear a knock on the door. The product person comes in with a huge scroll-like list of new features. They need to be out as soon as possible. Performance will suffer. How do you deal? Read more.
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