The presentation has been given.
The slides are available as HTML or the source OpenOffice.org Impress file.
Thanks to everyone who attended, and thanks to the Open Source Bridge organizers for putting on an excellent conference!
I have a bzr repository full of my log files I’m considering uploading. Unfortunately the meanings of the log files are mostly in my head, so I think I should clean them up before unleashing them on the world. Ping me by tweet or e-mail.
My talk, Web Server Shootout, was accepted by the Open Source Bridge Conference! I’m terribly excited, but also nervous because there’s a lot I need to do between now and the conference. Expect regular updates on how my talk is progressing (always tagged with osbridge [feed]).
The full list of sessions is up (or here), and I’m very excited just to be attending the conference. Congratulations to all of the speakers!
Some of the sessions I’m particularly excited to attend are:
There are many many more sessions I’m excited about, but I’m too sick of copying and pasting to mention anymore right now.
So sign up to attend the Open Source Bridge Conference in Portland, OR this June!
I just posted my second talk proposal for the Open Source Bridge Conference:
Introduction to Django: The Who, What, and When
As with my other talk, Web Server Shootout, I’m not trying to convince anyone of anything. We’re all already inundated with plenty of senseless marketing and fanboyism.
I’d rather present my knowledge, experiences, mistakes, and opinions in an effort to help others make more intelligent decisions about the development platforms they choose to use.*
Let me know what you think!
*If that was dripping with too much sappy altruism, do remember I get into the conference free if either proposal gets selected. 
Update: Submitted my proposal, but please still leave me comments! I can still edit my proposal.
Web server performance has been a hot topic for some time now as Apache hasn’t been the only viable option for a few years.
I want to do a talk at OS Bridge doing practical comparisons between the popular web site hosting options available today. There’s plenty of requests per second comparisons between the major HTTP servers out there, so I want to go beyond and compare a wide variety of metrics in a wide variety of environments.
Here’s what I’m thinking so far, but I’d love your feedback! I’m really excited about the possibility of presenting at a large conference like OS Bridge and want to make my talk as exciting and useful as possible.
Metrics
Web Servers
The usual suspects (will definitely test):
Maybes:
Test Cases
This is where things become really complicated. I don’t want to just download static files from each server and pretend like thats a real world use case, but at the same time the various environments I could come up with are nearly limitless.
I want to strive to cover the most common environments** as well as a few variations that produce interesting results.
Conclusion
Wow, that seems like a lot to cover thoroughly, but I think the research will be a lot of fun to do.
Please let me know your thoughts either in the comments, on twitter (@schmichael), on IRC (schmichael again), or via e-mail.
