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CMG 2007 in San Diego

What happened in San Diego. Well, a lot apart from the fact that I was fortunate enough to have two distinguished speakers speak for the network track, namely Peter Sevcik from Netforecast, a world renowned consultant that knows his stuff and whose opinions are often against the current but proven to be correct after. His pet peeve these days is the application performance index or APDEX (see Apdex Alliance). My good friend Neil Gunther (Neil's blog) and I presented a new visualization for the Apdex index which we believe has a lot of potential. The other distinguished speaker is Raj Jain, a well known academic whose performance book The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis: Techniques for Experimental Design, Measurement, Simulation, and Modeling (Hardcover) has been the bible for many old timer performance analyst. Raj current interest is in participating in the design of the Internet 3.0 (I don't know where I was but I don't recall Internet 2.0 but heck, that's just me).

The other really interesting point is that my other good friend Adrian Cockcroft from Netflix (Adrian's blog) was awarded the A.A. Michelson Award which is a great honor and I am very proud for Adrian (see blog entry for details).

Well I could get into why Neil was rolling in laughter on the floor but that would be another full blog entry. All in all, I gave 3 talks, 1 BOFs which had the most attendance in a bof (never seen 30-40 people before). I think the whole conference was a great success. I wished I had reported on it earlier but I am like that, delinquent at updating my blog. Till next post enjoy.
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