KITE Talks

KITE Talks are a series of informal conversations with Web performance experts from Keynote. Please register once below to view pre-recorded sessions.

Date/Time	Title	Your Host	Action
On-Demand	A Different Look at Caching	Dave Karow, Max Robbins
	In this session we discuss caching on the server end. More powerful than juicing up a database with memcached or maxing out the RAM on your systems, the approach we describe places a large RAM-based proxy in front of your entire current infrastructure. Even if the content is set to expire in just a few seconds, this approach can offload 90% or more of the hits on your web, application and database servers. A very disruptive technology and a very lively conversation.
On-Demand	Developing High Performing Web Applications - How to Overcome Front-End Challenges and Automate Optimization	Ben Rushlo, Bob Buffone
	According to Steve Souders, Google’s Web Performance guru and author of the book “High Performance Websites”, only 10-20 percent of the end-user response time is spent on the backend, yet that is where most of us spend their time on looking for improving Web performance. 80-90% of the response time occurs on the front end during component downloads of a page. In this Webcast, learn how to overcome the seven key front-end challenges and optimize your Web applications on the fly.
On-Demand	How to Optimize and Test Your Site for Returning Users	Abelardo Gonzalez
	Returning users represent the largest visitor population for many of the world's leading Web sites, so how do you optimize your Web application for your returning visitors? Using some of the advanced features in KITE, we'll test performance for returning visitors and identify which content is cached and spotlight areas for improvement.
On-Demand	Performance Testing Applications on the Internet Cloud	Vik Chaudhary
	Internet computing platforms are the way apps will be developed and deployed in the future. You may be considering using cloud computing platforms like Google App Engine, Amazon Web Services, or Salesforce Force.com to host and run your applications. How do these cloud platforms assure you that your application will perform well and meet your high expectations for your end users? Take a look at how various cloud platforms make it easy or hard for you to monitor the reliability and availability of your applications. We'll also take KITE for a test drive on an application running on a cloud platform and examine any performance bottlenecks so you can answer the question “Is it the cloud, the app, or just me?”
On-Demand	How to Use Virtual Profiles	Julie Serement
	Learn how to script a transaction that uses dynamic values when interacting with your site. KITE enables the creation of tables of user data to support variation of login or user data related to location. This is required when an application only allows a user to login one-at-a-time, but where monitoring from multiple agent locations is required. In this case, multiple user credentials can be entered as Virtual Profiles, and each entry matched to a specific agent location to guarantee that each agent uses different data.
On-Demand	Advanced Scripting: IF/THEN Scenarios	Mike Hagerty
	Are the transaction paths on your website consistent over time, or do they vary throughout the day based on specific user scenarios? For example, some retails sites include additional steps (typically, shipping-bases steps) after a specific time of day. If so, you may be facing a daunting task when it comes to scripting your site in order to obtain valuable performance-based metrics. You can solve these scripting dilemmas with KITE 2.0 using advanced “if/then” statements and your ingenuity. Join us for a cursory glimpse of advanced “if/then” scripting techniques necessary for navigating through some of these dynamic scenarios.
On-Demand	How to Get Your Questions Answered in the KITE Online Discussion Community	Dave Karow
	With KITE 2.0, we have launched an online community focused on Web performance, and it's accessible right from the KITE console. Whether you are new to online discussion communities or have already posted thousands of messages in them, you'll benefit from this quick orientation to the structure and tools we've assembled to facilitate your success with KITE.