SXSW - Scaling Synchronous Web Apps

This presentation was a bit of an indulgence.  Synchronous web apps are services like web based chat where the multiple users are expecting to interact with the same content in real time.  There were plenty of questions about load testing, server monitoring, how to rollout new features, and the actual application stacks used.  It sounds like nagios is pretty popular along with keynote.

In the work I've done at CM, we've had expert release engineers who've taking care of all the servers.