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Analytics graph ruined by Dart announcement

Sunday, October 9th, 2011

The people over at http://gotocon.com/ like to keep an eye out for the Google Analytics graphs they’re harvesting when people visit the site.
However, on september 16th, when Helene logged into the dashboard, all meaningful information relating to all other dates than september 15th had been dwarfed by the surge in interest resulting from the announcement that on october 10th – that is tomorrow morning – the GOTO conference in Aarhus will host the announcement of the Dart programming language.

The lesson to take away from this: it seems the caches built into the system behind gotocon.com seems to work well enough to withstand a 10-fold increase in site traffic.

Preparations

Sunday, October 9th, 2011

The main GOTO Conference starts tomorrow.
But well over a 1000 lanyards with conference passes doesn’t magically assemble and sort themselves alphabetically to be ready for monday morning’s checkin frenzy. The stuff in the conference bags wasn’t there when the bags arrived in boxes with 100 bags each. When you arrive for the talks in Kammermusiksalen, be sure that days ago, there were no chairs lined up.

This is where the crew come into play. These hard working people have been here long before the fun part begins for the rest of us, working, sweating, perhaps even cursing a little bit. So when you pick up your conference bag, send a little nice thought towards the people in the “Crew” t-shirts.