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Scaling and Web Operations at Web 2.0 Expo

I’d like to share with you some takeaways from the Web 2.0 conference, mainly in the realm of scaling and web development.

John Allspaw’s Capacity Planning for Web Operations:
http://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/capacity-planning-for-web-operations-web20-expo-2008

Why startups need automated infrastructures
This talk was pretty awseome. It dealt with automating operations work.
http://www.slideshare.net/adamhjk/why-startups-need-automated-infrastructures

Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches (2007)
http://www.slideshare.net/techdude/scalable-web-architectures-common-patterns-and-approaches/

I’m also adding my friend’s talk (Artur Bergman from Wikia) from the upcoming O’Reilly Velocity conference in Burlingame:

Failure happens:
http://www.slideshare.net/crucially/failure-happens/

Additionally, here’s Steve Souders slides from his talk. Amazing takeaway from this: 9% of page load time is spent loading and generating HTML. The rest of the time is spent by the browser!

http://stevesouders.com/docs/web20expo-20080425.ppt

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