At the September 2010 Providence Geek Dinner, Spiros Eliopoulos, Chris Erway, and Dan Kuebrich gave us the low-down on Tracelytics, which helps you figure out why the heck your web site is running so slow. We caught up with them after their presentation to learn more. [Video link]

Photo credit: Brian Jepson

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010, 5:30 – 8:30pm
AS220, 115 Empire Street, Providence, RI
FREE (buy your own food and drink – it’s cheap)

In September, two things happen: deciduous leaves start turning color, and Providence Geeks reassemble after their self-imposed August hiatus. It is a glorious time of year.

Founded by 3 Brown Computer Science graduates, Spiros Eliopoulos (‘07, MS ‘10), Chris Erway (PhD ‘10), and Dan Kuebrich (‘08)- Providence-based Tracelytics aims to answer that eternal, burning question – “why is my web application running so slow?”

Tracelytics provides SaaS-based performance analysis and diagnostic services for web applications. Their key technology traces requests as they travel through each component of an website?s infrastructure, up and down the software stack and across machines, resulting in intelligent, actionable insights that help find bugs and pinpoint performance bottlenecks.

At the September Geek Dinner, the Tracelytics team will give the first public sneak peak ever of their exciting technology and business strategy.

Full disclosure: Tracelytics (yes, like Manpacks before them) is a member team of the 2010 class of Betaspring, a Providence-based startup accelerator, in which I am a proud partner.

Please RSVP at Facebook – and while you’re there please join our Facebook group. And if you want to join our very-low-volume email announcement send an email to Jack Templin, jtemplin@gmail.com with your name and affiliation.

As always, for first-timers here are the details on the Geek Dinners:

• The event itself is FREE! Beverages and food are for sale at AS220’s bar and new restaurant.


• It’s totally casual. Wear whatever, bring whoever, arrive and take off whenever! And don’t worry about eating or not – come famished or full – eating is optional, and frankly, the least of the festivities (that’s not say the food isn’t good – it’s actually great)


• Topics of conversation will vary as they will at any gathering of geeks, but many of us will be talking about AJAX, mash-ups, start-ups, new devices, innovative business models, interaction design, social computing, digital art, web services, etc. etc. etc.


• There is Wi-Fi so bring your connected device of choice.