[Orca-announce] Orca talk at ISI in Los Angeles

[Blair Zajac]

Good evening,

Sorry for the late notice here, but I thought you would
want to know about this.

I am giving a talk in Los Angeles on Thursday, October 28,
1999 at 1:30 PM at ISI, the Information Sciences Insitute
associated with USC located in Marina del Rey, on some work
I did developing a data gathering and monitoring tool named
Orca while I was at GeoCities.  In addition, I will probably
spend some time on discussing what it takes to serve one of
the largest web sites in the world and what my new company does.

I hope to see you at the talk.

Blair

http://www.isi.edu/divisions/div7/networking_seminar.html
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Blair Zajac, Ph.D.
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Technical Yahoo!
      Yahoo!/GeoCities
 Thursday October 28, 1999 1:30 PM


 Monitoring Extremely Large Web Sites


Abstract:
What does it take to serve one of the web largest web sites?  According to Media Metrix, GeoCities had the fourth largest reach of all domains on the web in August 1999.  I will discuss Orca, a MRTG like tool, that I built to monitor short term and long term system statistics.  This tool proved to be invaluable in diagnosing system performance problems.

Bio:
Blair Zajac is an Technical Yahoo! at Yahoo!/GeoCities, where he focuses on Web site architecture and performance issues, including networking hardware, content storage, international distribution, server operating systems, and Web server software. He is the author of the Orca monitoring system and was a key developer of the freely available Amanda backup software system. Before moving to Yahoo!/GeoCities, he received a Ph.D. in geophysics from Caltech, where he applies genetic algorithms and other numerical techniques to analyze the stress state in the earth.

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