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Behind the Scenes at MySpace.com

Presented by Dan Farino on Feb 10, 2009 Length 00:48:50
Sections
Operations & Infrastructure,
Enterprise Architecture,
Development,
Architecture & Design
Topics
Performance & Scalability ,
Enterprise Architecture ,
.NET Framework ,
.NET ,
Configuration Management ,
Architecture
Tags
IIS ,
PowerShell ,
QCon ,
MySpace ,
QCon San Francisco 2008
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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 is the Chief Systems Architect at MySpace.com where he is responsible for designing and implementing the infrastructure required to maintain the site's thousands of servers. Dan has designed and implemented many of MySpace.com's custom performance-monitoring, profiling and live-debugging tools.

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    The issue has been fixed.
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    The sound level is very low

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    There is a second volume control in the flash video window itself, make sure it is at 100%? The video is quite loud and normal for me.

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    I have the sound level on the flash player turn all the way up and it is REALLY loud for me. hth

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