November 1, 2011

Hosted by VSP

Address informaton is coming!

Sacramento, CA

 

Agenda

 


8:30 – 9:30         Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:30 – 10:00       Resizing the DB2 Buffer Pool for Performance Testing
                            Speaker:  Gary Dabb, VSP Vision Care

 Gary will present on techniques to temporarily resize the DB2 database buffer pool for performance testing to simulate production like cache hit rates. The goal is to provide a long running performance test with several hundred user sessions and accurately capture actual response times throughout the test to identify bottlenecks and performance defects.


10:15 – 11:15     Skills Transformation – From Performance Tester to Performance Engineer
                            Speaker:  Pat Crain, HP

 Justifying and standing up a performance engineering team is a well covered topic. There are ample experience reports that describe performance engineering implementations. What generally goes missing is the recipe for implementing performance engineering via the path of least organizational and technical friction.  That path is through the performance test team.  If you have a team dedicated to performance testing or an individual who tests performance as a hobby, you have the base ingredients to develop a performance engineering practice.  This presentation provides the step-by-step recipe to transform performance testers into performance engineers. Once the transformation starts, performance engineering becomes a de facto practice and can, with proper care and feeding, move into early SDLC phases.

11:30 – 12:00     The Devil is in the Details
                            Speaker:  Jay Sales, VSP Vision Care

What's required when performing a deep dive into a service layer part of a larger enterprise multi-tier implementation? What should you do besides load and stress testing? We will be looking into the benefits of a deep dive case study that exposed the atomic level of performance profiling.

12:00 ‑ 1:00       NCCMG Business Meeting/Elections/Lunch

1:00 – 2:00         File Systems and Various Approaches in Use Today

                           Speaker:  Tom Trainer, Gluster

 

Tom will be talking about file systems and various approaches in use today.  He will also be talking about the performance characteristics of a metadata-less file system.

 


Please pre-register by contacting Keith McAndrew at (916) 715-8352 or signing up through PayPal by Friday October 28, 2011. Registration is $25.

  

 

 

Report from the August 2011 meeting:

   Speakers:  Anton Niemand, Geetha Vallabhaneni, Fernando Martinez

 

Call for speakers in 2011. If you are interested in speaking, call Cathy Nolan at (925) 675-5308 or (925) 890-8390.

 

If you have not attended a meeting within the last two years, you will be deleted from the mailing list.  To remain on the mailing list, either attend one meeting or email cathy.nolan@bankofamerica.com by November 1, 2011. 

 

 


Reminders!  2012 REGIONAL NCCMG MEETINGS:

February 7

May 1

August 7

November 6