Nick Gerner

Nick Gerner
Software Architect, SEOmoz

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Nick is one of SEOmoz’s in-house software architects. He received his graduate degree from Cornell University in Data Base Management Systems and Information Retrieval. He’s worked on the joint Cornell University/Internet Archive venture, the Web Lab, a database abstraction to the world wide web over time.

Nick works at SEOmoz on the Linkscape project, researching and developing internet marketing applications of page authority metrics such as PageRank and StaticRank, spam and trust quantifcation systems such as TrustRank, and large-scale web datasets.

The Linkscape API serves nearly 100 million requests per month over a web-scale dataset that grows by over 50TB every six weeks.

Sessions

3:50pm Thursday, 06/24/2010
Common Sense Performance Indicators in the Cloud
Operations 209/210
Nick Gerner (SEOmoz)
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(1.67, 3 ratings)
In this session you'll learn about measuring performance of cloud architectures. What simple off-the-shelf software is available? What performance indicators should you look at? What do those indicators tell you about cloud-based and traditional components? What kind of performance can you expect out of Amazon Web Services? Learn to measure, understand, and act on performance indicators. Read more.

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