Thanks Vancouver!
April 17, 2008 – 1:21 amI just got back from the OpenWeb conference in Vancouver, and I thought it was well run and enjoyable. As with most conferences it’s difficult to make the wireless internet support so many users, not to mention with the restrictions and prices I hear some locations charge coferences. (I also think electric outlets should be in much wider abundance). But it’s really all auxillary anyways, and there where plenty of good talks to listen to.
All the talks where video recorded so I’m looking forward to looking over anything I missed as soon as they are up on the site (like the Google Gears talk). It was refreshing to attend some other talks of interest such as mobile technologies and open source project research
As always you can find my talks in PDF format on my “talks” page.
2 Responses to “Thanks Vancouver!”
I went to your presentation, I thought it was very good and informative. I find the puzzle of supporting and running a very large website interesting.
I never got around to talking to you though. I was wondering if you had been following the story of Vancouver’s PlentyOfFish.com at all. It isn’t a PHP saga but a .NET with 1 guy running a website with 10million logins a day (18 minute average surf time) on 5-6 servers only (web, image, mail, database, forum, and development server). Anyways the guy who runs it has a blog and you may find it interesting: http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/ .
By Nigel on Apr 17, 2008
Thanks for the link, It’s hard to compare sites due to functionality, but if he can run his site on limited hardware using ASP that’s great. I didn’t see any specific stats on how he setup his architecture or what his hardware specs are but would probably be interesting to know. Things often get interesting once you have to leave the one-to-one server architecture too though, so I hopefully he can continue to scale past that point as well ;-)
By shire on Apr 17, 2008