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X-WR-CALNAME:Metrics-driven engineering at LonelyPlanet.com at Leadenhall Market, London - Engineering on Plancast
X-WR-CALDESC:Inspired by this talk at Velocity 2011 (http://velocityconf.com/velocity2011/public/schedule/detail/17776) the guys from Lonelyplanet.com (the online...
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SUMMARY:Metrics-driven engineering at LonelyPlanet.com
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by this talk at Velocity 2011
 (http://velocityconf.com/velocity2011/public/schedule/detail/1777
 6) the guys from Lonelyplanet.com (the online companion to the
 Lonely Planet travel books and now part of the BBC) decided to
 apply these principals to their own website.\n
 \n
 This presentation will offer a &quot\;warts and all&quot\; view
 of trying to use open-source tools like Statsd\, Graphite (and
 their own bespoke Ruby Gem they build for the data collection) to
 move web engineering from &quot\;guess work&quot\; to
 &quot\;science&quot\;.\n
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 1830 - registration and drinks\n
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 1900 - presentation\n
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 2000 - Drinks &amp\; Snacks (TBC)\n
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 Presenting will be:\n
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 - Dave Nolan\n
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 - Marc Watts\n
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 - Mark Barger\n
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 - Mark Jennings\n
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 Mark B. has worked at Lonely Planet for about 4 years in the
 Linux team. His primary responsibilities are site reliability and
 operational support. Mark relocated to London a year ago with
 Lonely Planet and is trying to see as much of the world as
 possible while here.\n
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 Dave N. I&#039\;ve been a Rubyist for 6 years in London\,
 Prague\, and Brussels. I&#039\;ve built technical teams and
 custom software in sectors from financial services to
 voluntary sector. Now I&#039\;m tech lead at Lonely Planet
 where we&#039\;re creating a high performance travel platform.
 http://kapoq.com\n
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 Marc W: Marc has worked in web design and development for 5
 years\, from graphics and front-end development to operations and
 deployment\, and everything in-between. Marc has written in many
 software languages\, but now specialises in Ruby to develop and
 ship scalable applications at Lonely Planet. Marc is the creator
 of the Fozzie gem that is an integral part of Lonely
 Planet&#039\;s metrics driven engineering\n
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 Mark Jennings started with the Digital team at Lonely Planet in
 2008 during their last large website relaunch. Mark came to
 London as part of setting up a new Online team in London a little
 over 12 months ago. As Technical Operations Manager\, Mark leads
 leads the Lonely Planet Online DevOps team and has been driving
 for metrics driven engineering since attending Velocity
 Conference in June 2011.\n
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 When: Wednesday\, August 15\, 2012 at 7:00 PM\n
 Where: The Lamb Tavern\n
 Attendees: 1 http://plancast.com/p/c6ox
URL:http://plancast.com/p/c6ox
CATEGORIES:Engineering,PHP,Web Design,CSS,JavaScript,Internet Professionals,Web Technology,Internet & Technology,Web Performance,Web Development,Browsers,AJAX,Website Optimization,Web Hosting,Testing Web Site Performance
LOCATION:The Lamb Tavern
DTSTAMP:20120717T100208Z
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