Picture by Adewale Oshineye, licensed under CC.
Some readers will undoubtedly enjoy this 8/9/2006 hour-long talk by Google's Goranka Bjedov, about performance testing of big ICT systems. In fact one, who runs a large-scale e-learning delivery infrastructure, and to whom I sent the link just after writing this post said:
"Yes, just watched half of it, she hits all my hot spots, such a nice person, very interesting to hear that Google has similar issues to every other organisation regarding performance, capacity and testing. I love some of her stories and I liked her delivery style."
Thanks Seb! Seriously if you are interested in some of the issues associated with running big systems, Goranka's talk identifies and addresses quite a few of them. I particularly liked her love hate relationship with developers and finance people. Not often that one of these chats makes me laugh out loud but this one did it for me at least 5 times.
Lots of stuff to think about here for any organisation that runs a public facing website.
Dick Moore
Director of Technology Ufi learndirect
Posted by: Dick Moore | 21/09/2006 at 20:22