John Martin, Senior Director, Production Engineering, Edmunds.com
Collaboration between Dev and Ops is a critical part of how Edmunds.com manages its 30 critical web application. Development requires hard data from Operations so they can fully understand how to improve application performance. In this session John will discuss the key drivers for DevOps at Edmunds.com,  how Dev and Ops collaborate using AppDynamics to solve production incidents, and his top 5 tips for implementing a DevOps culture in your organization.

Slides:

AppJam, DevOps, DevOps AppDynamics, DevOps Culture, Edmunds.com

Kevin Siminski, Director of Infrastructure Operations, ExactTarget
As a global Software-as-a-Service leader serving the world’s top brands, ExactTarget maintains an extensive .NET platform of several thousand nodes. In this session, Kevin will provide insight into how ExactTarget ramped up a full APM production deployment in approximately four weeks and added an entire new dimension of visibility for his Global Operations organization. Kevin will also share stories from the trenches on how difficult problems were brought to light quickly, allowing development and operations to focus on solving problems, rather than pointing fingers at each other, while leveraging AppDynamics.

Slides:

AppJam, Deploying APM, ExactTarget AppDynamics

Bob Hartley, Principle Engineer from Family Search
Family Search’s distributed platform generates over 1.5 terabytes of data every day, servicing a user base of 3 million (and growing). Furthermore, Family Search’s application environment is highly dynamic, with code release cycles as short as 40 minutes. In this session Bob will discuss common challenges associated with managing big data in a dynamic and distributed environment, as well as his own technologies, methodologies and processes for maintaining uptime and availability in Family Search’s applications.

Slides:

Big Data, Big Data Monitoring, FamilySearch, FamilySearch AppDynamics, SOA, SOA monitoring

Ariel Tseitlin, Director of Cloud Solutions, Netflix
As an early adopter of many cloud technologies and the record-holder of the largest public cloud deployment, Netflix is often seen as a leading innovator in cloud computing. In this session Ariel will discuss the key drivers, challenges and design principles behind Netflix’s journey to the cloud. Ariel will also cover how Netflix operates in the cloud, including which tools and mechanisms they use to manage the performance and availability of their highly distributed applications.

Slides:

AppJam 2012, AppJam Americas, Netflix, Netflix AppDynamics, Netflix monitoring