00:01That’s me. I'm going to talk about strategies that we did for our Travel Information Map for Wyoming.

00:06We got some interesting weather in Wyoming, if you didn't know that.

00:11We don't have many residents, if you don't count the antelope, but a lot of traffic…

00:15…particularly on the major transportation corridors like I-80.

00:18Our goal is to provide the best information we can to a traveling public so they can make decisions about whether to go out.

00:26Bad weather is when we see the most traffic; when the weather's nice, we got nothing. Bad weather, we get hammered.

00:32That's when we need to get our information out the most, so we need to handle, or plan for the worst-case scenario.

00:39We've targeted high throughput, primarily because that improves or increases our capacity.

00:45Secondarily, it provides a better user experience. So, basic strategies…

00:51…make the map service fast; I'll talk more about that in a minute.

00:55Get somebody else to serve your basemap. We use Google; Esri can do it.

01:00We do a lot of other stuff without ArcGIS Server, which I'll talk about, in order to reserve service capacity…

01:05…to generate our maps as fast as possible. And finally, make the web application itself fast.

01:12Make the map service fast. There was a talk earlier today about performance strategies.

01:16I'm not going to talk about any of that and do all of that.

01:20What we've done above and beyond that is, our data's dynamic, so we can't do tiled. We have to do dynamic service.

01:26We use the Analyze tool in ArcMap to get through all those humps. We use the optimized map service…

01:31…from the MSDs. We found that choosing your Join syntax can be crucial. We had a case of…

01:37…a map service that was taking four seconds to render. We changed the syntax to the join…

01:41…got it down to a hundred milliseconds.

01:44Finally, test, test, test, which really should be measure, measure, measure.

01:48We've used an internally developed tool called Hammer. Lately we've been using JMeter.

01:52You can do all kinds of tests with JMeter. Other stuff. We have a number of things on our map.

01:59Alerts and closures, web cameras, weather stations, all that stuff. Those are all served JSON. None of it hit…

02:05None of it hits ArcGIS Server. Again, reserve Server for generating maps.

02:11They're all georeference points that are precomputed, so no geometry involved to them...

02:16…other than just serving up lat-longs. The Google interface will plop in the map for us.

02:21Finally, make the web application itself fast.

02:25You want to minimize the number of files you load by combining files, things into single files.

02:30I'd bundle all the CSS and JavaScript I can into a single file. I actually work with them as separate files…

02:36…during development, but at deployment, combines into one big load.

02:40Put your styles at top so things look pretty fast. Put your scripts at the bottom, and then your scripts are going to run…

02:46…until everything is loaded anyway, so make it look pretty first, and then get your script-based functionality.

02:52Finally, we serve our static content with the Apache web server. We do our dynamic stuff with Tomcat.

02:58Tomcat's fast, but Apache web server is faster. References...

03:05A book by Steve Souders. Highly recommend it. It's got a lot of tips. It's not thick, but it's got good stuff.

03:11And Apache JMeter. It's very useful. Thanks.