Schedule: BoF sessions

7:30pm Monday, 06/22/2009

Cloud Serviceability -- The Forest through the Trees

Location: Plaza

Moderated by: Jason Carolan

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(2.00, 1 rating)

How do we build hierarchical management systems that scale to the dynamic and economically efficient world of cloud computing? If a server fails, what we care about? How do we instrument for resource planning and service availability? How do I link fail in place architectures to systemic observability and telemetry? Read more.

7:30pm Monday, 06/22/2009

Dynamic Tracing of Your AMP Web Site with DTrace

Location: Valley

Moderated by: Sriram Natarajan

Ever wonder which PHP script or MySQL query in your web site is keeping your system busy or how to quickly find out which module within your PHP application is struck ? Learn how, with very simple DTrace knowledge, you can dynamically trace the system/user time of a request from Apache to PHP/Ruby and then onto MySQL. Read more.

8:30pm Monday, 06/22/2009

Measure, Tune, & Maximize Performance of Your Open Source Web Stack

Location: Plaza

Moderated by: Brian Overstreet

Average rating:

(1.00, 1 rating)

How can we test and tune web technologies (Apache, MySQL, memcached, lighttpd, etc.) as a whole? How can we meaningfully benchmark these in a Web 2.0 environment? This BoF will show what Olio and Faban are and how they can be used to benchmark and tune your stack. Read more.

8:30pm Monday, 06/22/2009

Is Enterprise Flash Ready for Prime Time?

Location: Valley

Moderated by: Peter Zaitsev

Enterprise flash should mean higher performance and easier scaling for web datacenters. However, questions remain about flash’s reliability, and exploiting its advantages will require new approaches to web application design. Join Peter Zaitsev in an informative discussion about the opportunities and challenges that this new technology brings. Read more.

9:30pm Monday, 06/22/2009

MySQL Performance

Location: Plaza

Moderated by: Peter Sandström

What are the current MySQL performance bottlenecks and what can be done about them? Presentation of the performance fixes shown at http://peter.stardoll.com/ and what's left to do. Read more.

7:30pm Tuesday, 06/23/2009

Cooking Infrastructure with Chef

Location: Valley

Moderated by: Ian Kallen

Average rating:

(3.00, 3 ratings)

Chef is an open source infrastructure management system for operations automation. With chef you can * Manage servers by writing code, not by running commands. * Integrate tightly with applications, databases, LDAP directories, and more. * Easily configure apps that require knowledge about the entire infrastructure. This session is for those who manage clouds or infrastructures of scale. Read more.

7:30pm Tuesday, 06/23/2009

Ajax Performance Tuning and Best Practice

Location: Plaza

Moderated by: Doris Chen, Greg Murray

Intermediate level Ajax and Java developers can really benefit from this session. After the session, the audience will be able to: -apply Ajax Performance Optimization process -choose the right tool and use them -leverage various best practice and performance tuning tips -improve their Ajax application response time ultimately Read more.

8:30pm Tuesday, 06/23/2009

Best Practices for Delivering User-Aware Experiences

Location: Plaza

Moderated by: Paul Dockter

This session will be an open discussion to share what has and hasn’t worked in delivering user experiences that are optimized for a user’s preferred language, geo location, network bandwidth and the device they are using. Read more.

8:30pm Tuesday, 06/23/2009

API Provider and Consumer BOF

Location: Valley

Moderated by: Gregory Brail

APIs are rapidly becoming a vital part of any highly effective web site. Are you offering an API today? Planning to offer one soon? Or do you rely on others’ APIs in order to make your site function? Join others in the same situation to share your experiences and discuss common product, operational, and scalability challenges. Read more.

9:30pm Tuesday, 06/23/2009

CANCELED: Grow Your Code in the Cloud

Location: Plaza

Moderated by: Sharat Chander

Cloud, cloud, cloud. It's a popular buzz word but, what does it mean for developers looking to accelerate application development? In this BOF, attendees will learn how to utilize NetBeans 6.7 and Project Kenai (Sun Microsystems' developer-cloud onramp) together to easily start growing their open source projects and code in the cloud. Read more.

9:30pm Tuesday, 06/23/2009

Deploying High Performance Enterprise 2.0 Sites (A Case Study)

Location: Valley

Moderated by: Murthy Chintalapati (CVR) and Jed Michnowicz

Enterprises are adopting Web 2.0 technologies throughout their web infrastructure, both in intranets and externally facing online properties. This BOF presents an overview of the enterprise 2.0 features and infrastructural elements of of Sun.com and its associated sites, such as Blogs.sun.com, Forums.sun.com, Wikis.sun.com combine classic enterprise features with user generated content. Read more.

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