Hi everybody,

tonite I thought I write about a nice project I was involved in. It’s about bringing the virtual platform for the Developer Kick-Off Meeting 2008 to life. Target of the project is/was to let users around the world participate in a large online event, and even if their where some caveats, we managed to get all the problems solved in time. Users were able to visit the virtual conference center, which was basically a flash application, and join live keynotes, recorded sessions, post comments, communicate via chat, etc.

To manage the expected load, parts of the platform like the videos etc. where distributed via a CDN. The rest of the platform used a mysql master, scale out master, many slaves setup, which performed very well, and of course a horde of apache servers.

Final load tests where done using Funkload. Funkload is a load testing tool I would clearly recommend, and is less bloated like The Grinder or the like.

All in all, our technical project manager Darren Hague of SAP did an exceptional job in this project, keeping track of the timelines and adressing the important issues first. Thanks a lot for this Darren, I really enjoy working with you. Of course, the rest of the team also played their parts very well to get the job done successfully. Thanks alot to you guys too, and hopefully we bring some more visions like this one to life in the future.

Okay, that’s it for tonite, I really need some sleep now

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