News of The Damned

History of Black Friday
How did we get here
Pre Black Friday sales, why?
Let's look at some crashes!

What happens when things go south

Big Themes for this year

Common Antipatterns with Mark and Scott

USA Outages

With Scott Moore
Shifting your load
How to measure your user experience

Rest of the world, History of Black Friday, Mobile

On June 25, 2009 Michael Jackson passed away. In the 24 hours which followed traffic on the internet surged by up to 20% worldwide. Twitter failed after reaching a volume of over 5000 tweets per minute about the event. TMZ crashed and burned, as did the LA times. Dozens of more sites failed under the load. This was the largest single celebrity driven event on the internet in terms of load, but it defined a path that others have followed.


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SaaS, The final Frontier. A buffet of services, from helpdesk ticketing to eCommerce. No hardware. No dedicated resources. Pay as you go by user. A Miracle of the modern I.T age. What could possibly go wrong?

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Today’s story boys & girls begins at a place filled with adventure, travels, monsters, heroes, tomes filled with ancient knowledge, from the center of the earth to the furthest reaches of the galaxy. On this dark & rainy night, our story takes us to the strand bookstore at the corner of Broadway and E 12th street in the heart of of island of Manhattan, in the city of Gotham