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Velocity 2010: Common Sense Performance Indicators 24 Jun 2010 | 05:22 pm
I was privileged to give a talk at Velocity 2010 this year. I attended Velocity 2009 last year, also a great show. The Velocity series is all about performance of web operations and spans topics fro...
Core Values 13 May 2010 | 06:31 am
Tuesday was my last day at SEOmoz. Being unemployed gives me a lot of time to have coffee with various people (from VCs to entrepreneurs to recruiters). And I’ve spent a lot of time trying to explai...
First Steps with the Netflix API 23 Feb 2010 | 09:33 am
Last weekend I started to dig into the Netflix API. The power of their API is phenomenal. Pretty much everything you do on the Netflix site, you can do with their API: Search and browse the catalog ...
What and How to Measure Performance 17 Feb 2010 | 10:09 am
Last week I wrote about performance testing Open Site Explorer. But I didn’t write much about how and why to collect the relevant data. In this post I’ll write about the tools I use to collect perfo...
Performance Testing: An OSE Case Study 25 Jan 2010 | 01:04 pm
I’ve spent the last week performance testing Open Site Explorer which we launched earlier this week. Using some of the same tools and techniques I’ve described in the past, I discovered plenty of iss...
Canonicalizable 18 Jan 2010 | 05:52 pm
EDIT: I was getting scraped too much, so I had to pull the tool down Fortunately, the code is open source and you can get a free Linkscape API key here. Inspired by an article at Jane and Robot about...
Cloud Computing Operations and Performance Talk 5 Jan 2010 | 06:18 am
I’m planning on pitching an excellent conference series on enterprise computing, operations, and performance. I’m hoping to talk about our cloud infrastructure at SEOmoz for Linkscape. In a nutshell...
Blog Migration 4 Jan 2010 | 06:20 am
It’s like a database migration, only… not as well defined. For some time my wife and I blogged together at twopieceset.blogspot.com. However, that’s always led to an awkward mix of technology, knitt...
