2023 PNSQC Call For Proposals Deadline Extended
One of my favorite “regional” testing conferences has extended the deadline to submit proposals until the end of April. Find out more at the call for proposals page.
STP – Call for Authors and Speakers – Contribute Now
I received an email for contributions to SoftwareTestPro.com. See their editorial guidelines for more information.
Call for Abstracts – 2015 PNSQC
The Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference has opened up the call for abstracts. This is one of my favorite conferences. The conference runs October 12-14, 2015, in Portland, OR. Highly recommended.
Video Notes – Bret Piatt interviewed at Velocity 2010
Marc Slocum interviews Bret Piatt
Bret Piatt, Technical Alliances, Rackspace Hosting
2010 O’REILLY Velocity – Web Performance and Operations Conference
June 22 – 24, 2010
5 min, 17 sec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d1YJs74rRM
My Notes:
- Cassandra differs
- No relational schema
- Create columns and column families
- Good for
- Large scale sites with lots of similar data
- If don’t have enough data for 8 node cluster (25 GB per cluster), not looking to grow to TB, probably better sticking with traditional database infrastructure
- Cloud Computing
- Why are open standards important? Enterprises are hesitant to repeat work – especially in a new environment.
Video Notes – Ismail Elshareef interviewed at Velocity 2010
Marc Slocum interviews Ismail Elshareef
Ismail Elshareef, VP of Tech., Razorgator, Inc
2010 O’REILLY Velocity – Web Performance and Operations Conference
June 22 – 24, 2010
3 min, 43 sec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZuNYwsHvQI
My Notes:
- Biggest issues with ads and site performance
- Network latency – no control over various assets retrieved
- Expectation
- No fair to expect site with advertising to perform as well as no advertising
- Unless ad is served in an iframe
- What can be done
- Develop plan to minimize impact of 3rd party code on site
- Work with CMS
- Order items are loaded on the page
- Single thing to improve ads and site performance
- Get rid of document.write in javascript ad – allow site developer to have control of when to call loading of assets
- Optimum ad slots: 2 should be enough
Call for Speakers – 2015 ASQ International Conference on Software Quality
ASQ’s 2015 International Conference on Software Quality will be held March 10-11, 2015 in Long Beach, CA. I often recommend that people look for a chance to speak in their field. For testers, this is a great opportunity. (The first conference I ever spoke at was this one…)
The theme for next year’s conference is "Real-World Software Quality: Trends and Practices". The deadline for submission is August 15, 2014. See http://asq-icsq.org/ for more details.
Video Notes – Joshua Bixby interviewed at Velocity 2010
Marc Slocum Interviews Joshua Bixby
Joshua Bixby, President, Strangeloop Networks
2010 O’REILLY Velocity – Web Performance and Operations Conference
June 22 – 24, 2010
6 min, 43 sec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cJmNsKmTsQ
My Notes:
- User expectations of mobile in terms of optimization
- Very little data to answer scientifically
- Long term need desktop and mobile site performance to come together
- Need to collect the data before setting benchmarks
- Acceleration and Business Benefits Research
- Huge payback for performance improvement
- Initial thing that a company should do
- Set benchmarch and understand how user sees the site
- Keep alives on
- Compression on
- Workshop
- Analyzed Velocity home page
- Made worse than reality and brought it to current then improved
Video Notes – Nicholas Zakas interviewed at Velocity 2010
Nicholas Zakas interviewed at Velocity 2010
Nicholas Zakas, Principal Front End Engineer, Yahoo!
2010 O’REILLY Velocity – Web Performance and Operations Conference
June 22 – 24, 2010
6 min, 26 sec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ERgBl6LKb8
My Notes:
- Yahoo home page reorg in 2009
- Moved from static to interactive / customizable
- Time to interactivity metric
- Time between hitting enter on URL and can complete an interaction on a page
- Sometimes even before the page has finished loading
- Aim to minimize this time
- Metrics we should avoid
- Most are useful
- Should not focus in on any one item
- Focus will depend on the usage pattern of the page
- Yahoo home page as an application framework
- People think of it as a single page
- Same framework is running home page around the world
- Difference between building an application and an application framework
Call for Presentations – 2014 International Conference on Software Quality
The International Conference on Software Quality was the first conference I have ever spoke at. The next conference will be February 25-26, 2014 just North of Dallas. The theme is "Achieving Safe, Effective and Reliable Software"
The Call for Presentations just opened. Submissions need to be made by May 31, 2013. Highly recommended.
Video Notes – Robert Johnson interviewed at Velocity 2010
Robert Johnson interviewed at Velocity 2010
Robert Johnson, Director of Engineering, Facebook
2010 O’REILLY Velocity – Web Performance and Operations Conference
June 22 – 24, 2010
7 min, 4 sec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXTCPnuDGbg
My Notes:
- User expectations of mobile in terms of optimization
- Very little data to answer scientifically
- Long term need desktop and mobile site performance to come together
- Need to collect the data before setting benchmarks
- Acceleration and Business Benefits Research
- Huge payback for performance improvement
- Initial thing that a company should do
- Set benchmarch and understand how user sees the site
- Keep alives on
- Compression on
- Workshop
- Analyzed Velocity home page
- Made worse than reality and brought it to current then improved