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Behind the Scenes at MySpace.com

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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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QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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Feb 10, 2009

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  • Slides garbled

    by Bela Ban,

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    The slides are unreadable, I tried both Firefox and Safari, can you correct this ?

  • Re: Slides garbled

    by Diana Baciu,

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    The issue has been fixed.
    Diana

  • Sound level is very low

    by Ovidiu EFTIMIE,

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    The sound level is very low

  • Re: Sound level is very low

    by Floyd Marinescu,

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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.

  • Re: Sound level is very low

    by Jim Nasium,

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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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