Some Highlights of Performance and Capacity 2013 Conference by CMG
The Performance and Capacity 2013 Conference by CMG will be held November 4th through 8th in La Jolla, CA. The program is outstanding this year.
The conference has five tracks (subject areas): Application Performance Management, Performance Engineering and Testing, Capacity Planning, IT Service Management, and Hot Topics. Also there are numerous invited speaker sessions on all these subjects and CMG-T sessions (usually 3-hour tutorials on a specific topic).
Below is a short summary for the track I was responsible for:
The number of great papers in the Performance Engineering and Testing track is really impressive: Sometimes, you will have to make the hard choice of selecting from several great alternatives. And it is not only sessions that officially belong to that track – several invited speakers and CMG-T sessions cover these topics too.
We get this started with Monday’s workshops ‘What Every Performance Engineer Should Know’ and ‘Application Profiling – Telling a Story with Your Data’. This is followed by dozens of great sessions during three days of the conference (covering such diverse areas as cloud, mobile, real time and embedded systems, web performance optimization, NoSQL, agile, and many others by leading world experts – too many to list here, check the program yourself).
The conference finally culminates in free (FREE!) technical forums (a.k.a. advanced workshops) on Friday – where the choice between ‘Web Application Performance by Design: A Performance Engineering Approach’ by Mark Friedman, ‘Model-Based Performance Engineering’ by Dr. Connie Smith, the founder of Software Performance Engineering, and ‘Software Performance Engineering Maturity Model’ by Kevin Mobley which will be difficult to choose which to see.
We also have scheduled three great panels about hot topics in our industry: ‘Performance Requirements: What? When? How?’, ‘Is Load Testing in Crisis?’, and ‘Performance Engineering Body of Knowledge’. The list of panelists is really impressive – and everybody is invited to actively participate.
