If you didn't see Doug Nottage's great scaling talk at FuseBox FUN
2000 last month he will be talking again on how to scale your site and
optimize your code at CF_Scale http://www.cfconf.com/cf_scale/
Saturday 11/4/00 in Bethesda MD (just before the nearby Allr Dev Con
on Monday).
We had to cut Doug's talk down to one hour for the Fusebox conf but he
has more tips and tricks to share with us and will speak for 2 hours
this time! He will be joined by CF gurus Robi Sen, Jeff Tapper,
Matt Liotta and Steve Nelson.
After the tech talks we will be having CF_Fun at Dave and Busters -
and if possible "Foosball II - the rematch" will be played. There will
also be CF_Beer mugs for all attendees - provided by Steve Nelson's
SecretAgents.com - thanks Steve! And free beer to fill them will be
provided by Robi Sen's Granularity and TeraTech.
- Michael Smith, TeraTech http://www.cfconf.org/
MDCFUG http://www.cfug-md.org/
Sign up here ----->>>> http://www.cfconf.com/cf_scale/
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Here is the conf news.
Here is the Draft content of the talks:
1. Doug - (High-Level View) Hardware scalability, major issues you'll
encounter as you scale, suggestions of multiple tiers, proxy servers
(static elements) - the theory why that's so valuable but not the
details of you you would integrate them, some session "warnings" and a
few other things. I also cover business and financial justifications
for the various steps in the timeline of an organzation. What you
need at each step, what to expect cost-wise, how to justify it, etc.
2. Matt - (enterprise strategy) - The high-level view sounds good, but
as a CF developer, I'm used to writing one application. How do I
design an architecture with multiple layers and proxies? What are the
methods to take what Doug mentioned and actually make a plan out of
it?
I show a very basic application framework and enterprise
communication module code. This would mean that I would be showing
code the allows specific functionality to communicate, but not
actually any functionality. The framework would just be a suggestion
on how to organize code that integrates well with the
architecture I propose. I talk about the performance and security
benefits of proxies, but stay away from application level caching as
this is coverd by Jeff.
3. Robi - (application strategy) - Ok, now I understand how to design
an enterprise plan, but I'm just developing one application in the set
and don't have anything to do with hardware. But I want to make sure
I built my application with the enterprise strategies given by Doug
and Matt. Show me some code. What does something like this look
like? What are the inner-workings like? What really is EJB, COM,
etc. from a code-level? Let me leave feeling I understand the plan
from the highest level but also have something I can take away and
start using in my designs tomorrow. How does an average CF developer
learn more about these areas so they can become an
enterprise-level developer.
I talk about application data caching (as opposed to application
caching.. i.e. cf servers caching of p code).
4. Jeff (caching stragegies)
Doug's talk covers caching more in theory than practice. I talk
about how valuable it is that once you get an answer, that you cache
it so you won't have to do it again and use valuable resource. I also
say that your network bandwidth is critical and very expensive and
that images should be proxied outside of this network to save CF
resources, IIS resources, network resources and all costs included. I
also mention Akamai. But I usually don't have time to go deeper.
Jeff will talk in detail about query caching, proxy servers,
page caching, etc. I'm sure people would like to learn more about
exactly how this is done. Data layering cacheing.. i.e. client,
session, application var stored queries or data, and datalayer cache
in the db product.
What is caching? Caching at theDATA layer in the application server
(CF server page caching) or on the DB base. Caching queries at the
application level or the database level, using ODBC? Caching
application level data (like p code using XCACHE) for super fast
performance.
------------ Bonus ------------
Also we have some CF_Scale bonuses!!
1. Mike Prince of CF Logviewer will be at CF_Scale to show how viewing
the CF logs can help you with optimization and scaling problems
http://www.logviewer.com/home/
2. A CF_Scale t-shirt is planned. The draft text is below. Email
improvements to me ASAP.
A SCALABLE PROGRAM
[CFLOOP CONDITION="AM I STILL SOBER"]
[CF_BEER
FLAVOR="ALE"
COLOR="LIGHT"
HEAD="YES"
AUTOREFILL="ON"]
[CFIF "ALL MEMBERS OF THE OPPOSITE
SEX LOOK GOOD TO YOU"]
[CF_ABORT]
[/CFIF]
[/CFLOOP]
[CF_NAP]
Please tell your friends about CF_Scale as seats are going fast!
http://www.cfconf.com/cf_scale/
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Learn how to optimize and scale your CF apps from the Pros. Both Doug
and Robi have write sites that have successfully scaled to millions of
hits per day and will be sharing practical tips and tricks on what you
can do to your site to improve both performance today and scaling in
the future...
What Does Scalability Mean?
Examples of Scalability
Getting Started
Growing Quickly
Round Robin DNS
NT/SQL Clustering
Bandwidth Limits and Costs
Creating a "Staged" Environment
What Servers to Buy?
Cold Fusion Administrator
Cold Fusion Scalability Issues
CF-Session Variables
Database Suggestions
Web Log Analysis
How to Monitor Your Systems
There will be a detailed talk on a Scalable, Extensible Cold Fusion
Application Architecture:
What is the problem
Transport methods
Process architecture
Application framework
Introduction to proxies
Finally get YOUR scaling and optimization questions answered by the
pros:
Q&A panel
The speakers at CF_Scale are national CF scaling and optimizing gurus:
Doug Nottage of http://www.Autobytel.com/
- the biggest auto buying website (all in CF!)
Robi Sen of Granularity
- expert in using EJB for B2B scaling
Jeff Tapper of G.Triad
- worked on Toys "R" Us 100 Million hits/day site
Matt Liotta of TeamToolz
- author of the CF Scaling Architecture
There will also be a panel discussion which will consist of all the
speakers above plus Leon Chalnick of SCCFUG and Steve Nelson of
Fusebox fame.
Saturday, November 4, 2000
Time: 11am - 10pm
Location: Dave and Busters in Whiteflint Mall, 3rd floor, Bethesda, MD
Save on airfare and hotels - If you are coming to the Allaire DevCon
this is near by metro and is happening on the weekend before the
DevCon.
For discount hotels near the conference try VisitDC
https://www.washingtondchotels.com/cr_secure/index.cfm?aff_id=a504
Cost: $99.00
One tip you learn could save your 10 times in this in saved site
downtime and avoiding unnecessary servers in your cluster...
This covers the lectures on ColdFusion Scalability and related
topics from 11am - 5pm and food, fun and drinks from 5pm - 10pm. In
case you don't know Dave and Busters has pool, bars and arcade games
and even foosball! Plus you will get an exclusive CF_Beer glass!
Places are limited - register now at:
http://www.cfconf.com/cf_scale/
and speed up your CF apps and make ready for scaling up!
--
Michael Smith, TeraTech Inc
VB, CF , SQL, Math programming
100 Park Ave Ste 360, Rockville MD 20850 USA
Voice: +1-301-424-3903, 800-447-9120 Fax:301-762-8185
Web: http://www.teratech.com/sig/
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