Hanselminutes Podcast 114 - Website Scaling War Stories with Richard Campbell
My one-hundred-and-fourteenth podcast is up. In this slightly unusual episode, I sit down with my good friend Richard Campbell and we share stories about scaling large websites over the years. I thought this was a really good show, if a little long and I'm thinking to have Richard on as a regular thing, if he's interested.
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Guess I need to open that argument up again.
I would very much like to hear more war stories like the ones in the show.
It gives us relative newbies, compared to you guys, some knowledge how you solved real life problems in software development - and its fun to hear too.
Maybe shows are just best, when they go a little out of control? :)
Keep up the good work, and I am, as always look forward to the next episode.
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I remember using the old commerce server at job I had 8 years ago, wow that thing was nasty to debug.
At my previous job we developed a tool that was a godsend for debugging performance issues on our production web site (altiris notification server)
Imagine SQL profiler with stack traces + much more which can run in production. It made diagnosing performance issues so much easier.
I have an old post about it on my blog
Scott, I would love to read any post you create based on the topics covered in this podcast. I particularly would love to see a posting detailing the code necessary for cache instrumentation that Richard mentioned. In the podcast, he talked about knowing when an item is cached, when it was destroyed and then recreated. Couldn't we the community build a module like ELMAH reporting real-world info from our caching strategy.
Thanks for hosting Richard. Please invite him again. I like that he is an IT (server) professional that knows and understands DEVs.
Seriously, it was both very entertaining, and incredibly informative
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