[SGVLUG] FYI: Large Scale Web Application talk Tue 5/18 12noon at Caltech

[matti]

fyi - more on the presenter

David Wei
http://davidwei.org/cv/index.html



--- On Sun, 5/16/10, matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [SGVLUG] FYI: Large Scale Web Application talk Tue 5/18 12noon at Caltech
> To: sgvlug at sgvlug.org
> Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010, 2:20 PM
> 
> fyi - this looks really good:
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> best
> matti
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> Adaptive Performance Optimization for Large Scale Web
> Application
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> Date: Tuesday May 18, 2010 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 
> Location: 105 Annenberg 
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> David Wei, Facebook.
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> With rapidly evolving technologies, the World Wide Web
> (WWW) has greatly improved user experience and become more
> and more ubiquitous. Web sites have grown into large
> applications which are far more complicated than simple HTML
> pages. As complexity grows, latency increases. "Make the web
> faster" has become a top priority for many large web
> properties in the world. 
> 
> Comparing to the performance optimization on traditional
> distributed applications, large scale web applications such
> as Facebook are facing at least three unique challenges:
> Massively large scale
> Rapid evolution
> Exponential and viral growth
> 
> In this talk, I'd discuss our experience on handling these
> challenges. I will go into details of one example on how we
> model and adaptively optimize the performance of static
> resource delivery. And I will present some open problems
> that we are facing.
> Lecture or concert series: IST Lunch Bunch
> For further information: contact Sydney Garstang sydney at caltech.edu
> phone: x2813 
> For the full scoop, see our event web page: http://www.cs.caltech.edu/seminars/lunch_bunch.html.
> Sponsored by: Computer Science and Information Science and
> Technology
> 
> http://today.caltech.edu/calendar/item.tcl?calendar_id=116969
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