Videos tagged with Configuration Management


Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design

Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design

Posted in Conferences, Project Management, Databases

Summary For years the norm for developers was to work in an iterative and incremental manner but for database developers to work in a more serial manner. The predominance of evolutionary development methods make it clear that the two groups need to work in the same manner to be productive as a team. Pramod presents material from "Refactoring Databases " on implementing evolutionary da...

Tags: Conferences, Agile, InfoQ, Database Design, Architecture, Configuration Management, database, Database Management



Behind the Scenes at MySpace.com

Behind the Scenes at MySpace.com

Posted in Conferences, Frameworks, Development

Summary In this presentation filmed during QCon SF 2008, Dan Farino, Chief Systems Architect at MySpace, talked about administering thousands of web servers from a system’s architect viewpoint. He mostly detailed the performance counter monitoring used by MySpace, the system profiler and the system administration site demoing the tools for the audience to see how it works. Bio Dan Farino ...

Tags: Conferences, Frameworks, MySpace, Scalability, IIS, .NET Framework, InfoQ, Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, QCon, Social Networks, ...


Ian Flint Explains Yahoo! Communities Architectures

Ian Flint Explains Yahoo! Communities Architectures

Posted in Conferences, Companies

Summary In this presentation, Ian Flint, Director of Operations for Bix, Yahoo!’s online contest service, tries to explain the infrastructure and architecture employed by Yahoo! to keep going a multitude of servers running of different platforms and offering different services. Bio Ian Flint is a 15-year veteran of Silicon Valley. He has been on the founding team of two successful startup...

Tags: Conferences, Yahoo!, Scalability, InfoQ, Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, QCon San Francisco 2007, QCon, Configuration Management, Performance


Dan Farino About MySpace’s Architecture

Dan Farino About MySpace’s Architecture

Posted in Frameworks, Development, Conferences

Summary In this interview taken by InfoQ’s Ryan Slobojan, Dan Farino, Chief Systems Architect at MySpace, talks about the system architecture and the challenges faced when building a very large online community. Because MySpace is built almost entirely on the .NET Framework, Dan explains how a .NET product scales on hundreds of servers. Bio Dan Farino is the Chief Systems Architect at MyS...

Tags: Frameworks, Technologies, MySpace, Interview, High Performance, Scalability, IIS, .NET Framework, InfoQ, Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, ...