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Dan Bartow

SOASTA Inc.

Vice President



Dan Bartow is Vice President at SOASTA, the leader in load and performance testing from the cloud. Formerly he was Senior Manager of Engineering for TurboTax Online at Intuit, makers of TurboTax, Quicken and QuickBooks. During his career Dan has deployed high traffic sites for some of the web’s best known names, including AT&T Wireless, Best Buy, Neiman Marcus, Sony Online Entertainment, and many more. Some of Dan’s accomplishments include deploying the world’s largest stateful JBoss cluster and setting an industry precedent by using over 2200 cloud computing cores to generate load against a live website. Dan is a respected leader in the software industry as well as an accomplished public speaker. He has taught numerous training courses and has spoken at well known industry conferences such as the the ATG Insight user conference, the Software Test and Performance Conference, Amazon’s AWS Road Show, and Sys-Con’s Cloud Computing Expo. Dan lives in the SF bay area and in his spare time he can usually be found surfing, watching surf movies, listening to surf-inspired music… or… okay you get the point.

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Performance Testing Strategies for 3rd Party Interfaces

Wednesday July 27th 2011 10pm 3 1 Comment Performance Testing
Many online applications today rely on information or services external to the organization’s own development effort.

Stop Cheating in Your Performance Tests

Thursday November 18th 2010 9am 15 7 Comments Load Performance Web
There are two dangerous practices that are rampant in performance testing right now – shrinking or removing think times and extrapolation of test results. Collectively we need to work to put an end to these practices and start testing more realistically to deliver higher confidence. Let’s talk about each of these things and why they’re bad news.
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Harnessing the Cloud For Performance Testing

Tuesday September 1st 2009 7am 1 0 Comments Performance Cloud Testing Web
Cloud computing is changing the world of online applications.
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