Performance

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Performance is one of the characteristics of the system that usually defines speed of operation. Usually comes hand-in-hand with Scalability.

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Contents 1 Conference Series about Performance 2 Recent and Upcoming Conferences about Performance 3 Presentations about Performance 4 Standards related to Performance

Conference Series about Performance

• New York Web Performance Group
• SpeedGeeks L.A.
• Velocity

Recent and Upcoming Conferences about Performance

	Location	Start date	End date
The New York Web Standards Meetup (March 2009)	New York, NY	245491019 March 2009	2454910.999305619 March 2009 23:59:00
Tools of the trade (NY WebPerf, May 2009)	New York, NY	245496412 May 2009	2454964.999305612 May 2009 23:59:00
Web Performance for PHP Developers (NY WebPerf, Jun 2009)	Brooklyn, NY	245499916 June 2009	2454999.999305616 June 2009 23:59:00
Velocity 2009	San Jose, CA	245500522 June 2009	2455007.999305624 June 2009 23:59:00
DUI.Stream and MXHR (NY WebPerf, Jul 2009)	New York, NY	245502714 July 2009	2455027.999305614 July 2009 23:59:00
JavaScript Performance (NY WebPerf, Aug 2009)	New York, NY	245506218 August 2009	2455062.999305618 August 2009 23:59:00
Saving traffic and money (NY WebPerf, Sep 2009)	New York, NY	245509015 September 2009	2455090.999305615 September 2009 23:59:00
Building your own CDN using Amazon EC2 (NY WebPerf, Oct 2009)	New York, NY	245511914 October 2009	2455119.999305614 October 2009 23:59:00
SpeedGeeks L.A. (October, 2009)	Los Angeles, CA	245513126 October 2009	2455131.999305626 October 2009 23:59:00
Meetup.com Web Performance Story (NY WebPerf, Nov 2009)	New York, NY	245515317 November 2009	2455153.999305617 November 2009 23:59:00
How to make cache work for you (NY WebPerf, Dec 2009)	New York, NY	245517610 December 2009	2455176.999305610 December 2009 23:59:00
Google Page Speed and other Google Technologies (joint meetup with NYC-GTUG, Jan 2010)	New York, NY	245521720 January 2010	2455217.999305620 January 2010 23:59:00
Velocity 2010	Santa Clara, CA	245537022 June 2010	2455372.999305624 June 2010 23:59:00

Presentations about Performance

• Google Page Speed (at NY Web Performance Group) given by Sergey Chernyshev at Google Page Speed and other Google Technologies (joint meetup with NYC-GTUG, Jan 2010) on 20 January 2010
• How to make cache work for you given by Sergey Chernyshev at How to make cache work for you (NY WebPerf, Dec 2009) on 10 December 2009
• Meetup Performance given by Greg Whalin, Justin Cataldo, Will Howard at Meetup.com Web Performance Story (NY WebPerf, Nov 2009) on 17 November 2009
• Warning - Extreme JavaScript Performance given by Thomas Fuchs at JSConf.EU 2009 on 7 November 2009
• In Search of Speed given by Steve Souders at SpeedGeeks L.A. (October, 2009) on 26 October 2009
• Building your own CDN using Amazon EC2 given by Rusty Conover at Building your own CDN using Amazon EC2 (NY WebPerf, Oct 2009) on 14 October 2009
• Saving Traffic and Money given by Sergey Chernyshev at Saving traffic and money (NY WebPerf, Sep 2009) on 15 September 2009
• JavaScript Performance in the Browser given by Ning Zhou at JavaScript Performance (NY WebPerf, Aug 2009) on 18 August 2009
• JavaScript Performance on the network given by Sergey Chernyshev at JavaScript Performance (NY WebPerf, Aug 2009) on 18 August 2009
• Experimental Web Optimization given by Scott Trudeau at DUI.Stream and MXHR (NY WebPerf, Jul 2009) on 14 July 2009
• In Search of... A better, faster, stronger Web given by Marissa Mayer at Velocity 2009 on 24 June 2009
• Shopzilla's Site Redo - You Get What You Measure given by Philip Dixon at Velocity 2009 on 24 June 2009
• Frontend Performance Engineering in Facebook given by David Wei, Changhao Jiang at Velocity 2009 on 24 June 2009
• Performance Related Changes and their User Impact given by Eric Schurman, Jake Brutlag at Velocity 2009 on 23 June 2009
• MySQL and PHP – State of the Union given by Hans Zaunere at Web Performance for PHP Developers (NY WebPerf, Jun 2009) on 16 June 2009
• PHP code profiling using XDebug given by Gennady Feldman at Web Performance for PHP Developers (NY WebPerf, Jun 2009) on 16 June 2009
• Front-end performance testing and optimization for PHP Developers given by Sergey Chernyshev at Web Performance for PHP Developers (NY WebPerf, Jun 2009) on 16 June 2009
• Speed Up Your JavaScript given by Nicholas Zakas at Google Tech Talks on 4 June 2009
• Websites on Speed given by Philip S Tellis at Yahoo!7 Open Session (May 2009) on 25 May 2009
• Tools of the trade given by Sergey Chernyshev at Tools of the trade (NY WebPerf, May 2009) on 12 May 2009
• Even Faster Web Sites (at Web2.0 conference) given by Steve Souders at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008 on 2 April 2009
• Web Performance given by Sergey Chernyshev at The New York Web Standards Meetup (March 2009) on 19 March 2009
• Even Faster Web Sites given by Steve Souders at SXSW 2009 on 14 March 2009
• Life is Too Short, Write Fast Code (part 2) given by Steve Souders at Google Tech Talks on 5 March 2009
• Ajax Performance given by Douglas Crockford at on 23 December 2008
• Design Fast Websites given by Nicole Sullivan at on 17 December 2008
• YSlow 2.0 early preview in China given by Stoyan Stefanov at on 6 December 2008
• Web Performance Tools Demos given by Simon Perkins, Eric Lawrence, Eric Goldsmith, John J. Barton at Velocity 2008 on 24 June 2008
• APC at Facebook (at PHP Tek 2008) given by Brian M. Shire at PHP Tek 2008 on 23 May 2008
• Facebook Performance Caching given by Lucas Nealan at PHP Tek 2008 on 21 May 2008
• High Performance Web Pages given by Stoyan Stefanov at 2008 PHP Quebec Conference on 13 March 2008
• High Performance Web Sites and YSlow given by Steve Souders at Google Tech Talks on 13 November 2007
• High Performance Widgets given by Steve Souders at Widget Summit 2007 on 16 October 2007
• Behind the Scenes at LiveJournal: Scaling Storytime (at USENIX 2007) given by Brad Fitzpatrick at USENIX 2007 on 21 June 2007
• APC at Facebook given by Brian M. Shire at PHP Tek 2007 on 17 May 2007
• Behind the Scenes at LiveJournal: Scaling Storytime (at Linuxfest NW 2007) given by Brad Fitzpatrick at LinuxFest Northwest 2007 on 29 April 2007
• Capacity planning for LAMP given by John Allspaw at MySQL Conference and Expo 2007 on 26 April 2007
• Interconnect Matters for Scalability and Performance given by Einar Rustad at MySQL Conference and Expo 2007 on 26 April 2007
• InnoDB Performance Optimization given by Heikki Tuuri, Peter Zaitsev at MySQL Conference and Expo 2007 on 26 April 2007
• The 7 Stages of Scaling Web Apps - Strategies for Architects given by John Engates at MySQL Conference and Expo 2007 on 26 April 2007
• Xdebug (presentation) given by Derick Rethans at PHP Tek 2007 on 26 April 2007
• 15 Ways to Kill Your MySQL Application Performance given by Jay Pipes at PHP Tek 2007 on 26 April 2007
• PHP and Performance given by Ilia Alshanetsky at PHP Tek 2007 on 26 April 2007
• MySQL Performance CookBook given by Peter Zaitsev at MySQL Conference and Expo 2007 on 25 April 2007
• MySQL Server Settings Tuning given by Peter Zaitsev at MySQL Conference and Expo 2007 on 24 April 2007
• Implementing Performant Databases for Multi-Play Service Architectures given by David Shepherd at MySQL Conference and Expo 2007 on 24 April 2007
• Geographic Distribution for Global Web Application Performance given by Jacob Rosenberg at Web 2.0 Expo 2007 on 17 April 2007
• Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches given by Cal Henderson at Web 2.0 Expo 2007 on 15 April 2007
• High Performance Webpages given by Steve Souders, Tenni Theurer at Web 2.0 Expo 2007 on 15 April 2007
• Behind the Scenes at LiveJournal: Scaling Storytime given by Brad Fitzpatrick at YAPC Asia 2007 on 5 April 2007
• … further results

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Standards related to Performance

• RFC 4094 - Analysis of Existing Quality-of-Service Signaling Protocols by J. Manner, X. Fu (INFORMATIONAL / 1 May 2005)
• RFC 3723 - Securing Block Storage Protocols over IP by B. Aboba, J. Tseng, J. Walker, V. Rangan, F. Travostino (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 April 2004)
• RFC 2761 - Terminology for ATM Benchmarking by J. Dunn, C. Martin (INFORMATIONAL / 1 February 2000)
• RFC 2681 - A Round-trip Delay Metric for IPPM by G. Almes, S. Kalidindi, M. Zekauskas (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 September 1999)
• RFC 2679 - A One-way Delay Metric for IPPM by G. Almes, S. Kalidindi, M. Zekauskas (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 September 1999)
• RFC 2678 - IPPM Metrics for Measuring Connectivity by J. Mahdavi, V. Paxson (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 September 1999)
• RFC 2680 - A One-way Packet Loss Metric for IPPM by G. Almes, S. Kalidindi, M. Zekauskas (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 September 1999)
• RFC 2584 - Definitions of Managed Objects for APPN/HPR in IP Networks by B. Clouston, B. Moore (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 May 1999)
• RFC 2544 - Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices by S. Bradner, J. McQuaid (INFORMATIONAL / 1 March 1999)
• RFC 2498 - IPPM Metrics for Measuring Connectivity by J. Mahdavi, V. Paxson (EXPERIMENTAL / 1 January 1999)
• RFC 2416 - When TCP Starts Up With Four Packets Into Only Three Buffers by T. Shepard, C. Partridge (INFORMATIONAL / 1 September 1998)
• RFC 2353 - APPN/HPR in IP Networks APPN Implementers' Workshop Closed Pages Document by G. Dudley (INFORMATIONAL / 1 May 1998)
• RFC 2309 - Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet by B. Braden, D. Clark, J. Crowcroft, B. Davie, S. Deering, D. Estrin, S. Floyd, V. Jacobson, G. Minshall, C. Partridge, L. Peterson, K. Ramakrishnan, S. Shenker, J. Wroclawski, L. Zhang (INFORMATIONAL / 1 April 1998)
• RFC 2238 - Definitions of Managed Objects for HPR using SMIv2 by B. Clouston, B. Moore (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 November 1997)
• RFC 1944 - Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices by S. Bradner, J. McQuaid (INFORMATIONAL / 1 May 1996)
• RFC 1856 - The Opstat Client-Server Model for Statistics Retrieval by H. Clark (INFORMATIONAL / 1 September 1995)