A wonderful talk on the joys of unordinary load testing

thorben_schroder-load_testing_done_real/README.md

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+# Load testing done real
+
+## Abstract
+
+Imagine this:
+
+```
+Hey Joe, do you think we should make our app faster?
+No Bill, I think it's fine as it is, people can wait a little it's not a big deal.
+```
+
+Everyone who has had that conversation with their co-workers can leave the room. For the rest of you, I'm going to present some interesting ways to turn the tedious and boring work of load testing into something a lot more fun and with much better results in the end. Let's go!
+
+## Details
+
+In this talk I will give you a quick tour through existing load testing approaches and then give you some food for though on how to:
+
+* use scientific methods of Artifical Intelligence to create realistic load scenarios
+* build a distributed infrastructure to run your tests in a way normal traffic would hit your system
+* analyze the results and find bottlenecks in your system
+
+## Bio
+
+I am Thorben, former founder of “kopfmaschine”, a German Rails shop located in Bremen and now working at Engine Yard in San Francisco to make the cloud a better place for developers. I am living and breathing Ruby since my days at University where I graduated with my thesis on how to scale large Rails applications which is the scientific foundation of this talk.
+
+## Meta
+
+The talk can be between 25 and 45 minutes. The talk is suited for any audience with at least intermediate understanding of software engineering processes.
+
+Preferred presentation day: no preference
+
+Presentation language: English
+
+- [GitHub](http://github.com/walski)
+- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/#!/walski)