Complete Web Monitoring

Acknowledgments

This book wouldn’t have been possible without the patience and input of many people. We’d especially like to thank:

• The people at Networkshop, Coradiant, Bitcurrent, GigaOm, Techweb, FarmsReach, Syntenic, and Akoha (especially Austin Hill) for putting up with our constant distraction and midnight oil and for sharing monitoring data with us when needed.

• Technology conferences, blogs, and industry events where much of the material in this text was first presented and tweaked, including Interop, Web2Expo, Mesh, Enterprise 2.0, eMetrics, Podcamp, Democamp, and Structure.

• The restaurants, pubs, and coffee shops that let us linger and put up with heated discussions, particularly the staff at Lili & Oli, The Burgundy Lion, Brutopia, the Wired Monk, JavaU, Toi, Moi et Café, and Laïka.

• All the people who write free tools that help us build the Web. There are hundreds of plug-ins, sites, clients, search engines, and reporting platforms. We’ve covered many of them in this text. Without these tools, written and released into the wild or offered as free entry-level services, the Web would be a slower, less usable, less reliable place; these developers and companies have our gratitude.

• Many of the industry heavyweights who have given us their time and their thoughts, and who paved the way for a book like this, including Avinash Kaushik, Paul Mockapetris, Lenny Heymann, Steve Souders, Guy Kawasaki, Ross Mayfield, Hooman Beheshti, Imad Mouline, Bob Page, Cal Henderson, Jim Sterne, Bryan ...