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Schedule: Velocity - O'Reilly Conferences, June 23 - 24, 2008, Burlingame, CA
1:00pm
Session
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About CDNs (But Were Afraid to Ask) Jacob Rosenberg (AOL)
2:30pm
Incident Command for IT: What We Can Learn from the Fire Department
Brent Chapman (Great Circle Associates, Inc.)
1:00pm
Session
Measuring Performance Steve Souders (Google), Ryan Breen (Gomez Inc. ), Bill Scott (Netflix)
2:00pm
Session
Lessons Learned in Live Search Moving to and then Away from Ajax Eric Schurman (Microsoft)
3:45pm
Session
Cadillac or Nascar? A Non-Religious Investigation of Modern Web Technologies Akara Sucharitakul (Sun Microsystems Inc.), Shanti Subramanyam (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
5:15pm
Panel
Performance Metrics Steve Souders (Google), Ernest Mueller (National Instruments Corporation), Peter Sevcik (NetForecast, Inc.), Eric Goldsmith (AOL, LLC), Eric Schurman (Microsoft), Vik Chaudhary (Keynote Systems, Inc.)
11:00am
Plenary
Room: Salons A-F
Energy Efficient Operations: Some Challenges and Opportunities Luiz Barroso (Google)
11:45am
Diamond 2
Room: Salons A-F
Clouds Are No Substitute for Competence Javier Soltero (Hyperic, Inc.)
Schedule
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Salon E
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About CDNs (But Were Afraid to Ask) Jacob Rosenberg (AOL)
5:00pm
Session
TBC
TBC
5:15pm
Panel
TBC
TBC
Salon F
Measuring Performance Steve Souders (Google), Ryan Breen (Gomez Inc. ), Bill Scott (Netflix)
Lessons Learned in Live Search Moving to and then Away from Ajax Eric Schurman (Microsoft)
Cadillac or Nascar? A Non-Religious Investigation of Modern Web Technologies Akara Sucharitakul (Sun Microsystems Inc.), Shanti Subramanyam (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Performance Metrics Steve Souders (Google), Ernest Mueller (National Instruments Corporation), Peter Sevcik (NetForecast, Inc.), Eric Goldsmith (AOL, LLC), Eric Schurman (Microsoft), Vik Chaudhary (Keynote Systems, Inc.)
12:00pm
Lunch
Room: Bayside
Room: Bayside
8:00am
Continental Breakfast
Room: Salon Foyer
Room: Salon Foyer
10:30am
AM Break
Room: Salon Foyer
Room: Salon Foyer
3:15pm
PM Break
Room: Salon Foyer
Room: Salon Foyer
9:15am
Keynote
Room: Salons A-F
TBC
Room: Salons A-F
TBC
9:45am
Plenary
Room: Salons A-F
TBC
Room: Salons A-F
TBC
TBC
Room: Salons A-F
Energy Efficient Operations: Some Challenges and Opportunities Luiz Barroso (Google)
Room: Salons A-F
Clouds Are No Substitute for Competence Javier Soltero (Hyperic, Inc.)
1:00pm–1:45pm
(45m)
Operations
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About CDNs (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Jacob Rosenberg
(AOL)
Most major web sites use Content Delivery Networks to deliver their experience but there is quite a bit of mystery and misinformation about how they work, how they differ, and why they’re so key to performance. This discussion brings together a panel of several experts in the technology, both vendors and major users, to address some of the misconceptions.
1:45pm–2:15pm
(30m)
Operations
Actionable Logging for Smoother Operation and Faster Recovery
Mandi Walls
(AOL)
This talk focuses on tips for making application logs more useful to operations staff, particularly after a pager goes off at 3 a.m. We'll look at methods for managing logs, separating problems from metrics, and working with developers with a goal toward faster recovery after problems and automation of simple fixes.
2:15pm–2:30pm
(15m)
Operations
LinkedIn Communication Architecture
Sean Dawson
(LinkedIn) et al
The LinkedIn Communication Platform is built 100% on top of Java technologies and is responsible for handling all user communications and the distribution of network events. Learn about the architecture, implementation, and scalability challenges in building the communication platform for the world's largest and fastest growing professional networking service.
2:30pm–3:15pm
(45m)
Operations
Incident Command for IT: What We Can Learn from the Fire Department
Brent Chapman
(Great Circle Associates, Inc.)
Have you ever wondered how fire departments organize themselves on the fly to deal with a major incident? How they effectively coordinate the efforts of multiple agencies? How they evolve the response as the incident changes? Brent Chapman will introduce the Incident Command System (ICS), and discuss how it can be applied to IT events, such as security incidents and service outages.
3:45pm–4:30pm
(45m)
Operations
Launching Scalable Startups
More information coming soon (Steve)
4:30pm–4:45pm
(15m)
Operations
Windows Live Search Infrastructure: Windows at Web-Scale
Kevin Kaufmann
(Microsoft)
You’ve seen how Google and Yahoo keep running 24/7, now it’s time to learn how Microsoft pulls it off…running Windows. This session will spill the beans on Microsoft’s Autopilot datacenter automation system and let you in on some of our future plans for running our ever-expanding server clusters
4:45pm–5:00pm
(15m)
General
Stress, Load, and Performance Testing in Quality Assurance
Goranka Bjedov
(Google)
What exactly are the differences between stress testing, load testing, and performance testing? Are there more things that can and should be done, and who should be responsible for doing them? This talk will attempt to answer these questions.
5:00pm–5:15pm
(15m)
Session: Session
To be confirmed
5:15pm–6:00pm
(45m)
Session: Panel
To be confirmed
1:00pm–1:45pm
(45m)
Performance
Measuring Performance
Steve Souders
(Google) et al
More information coming soon
1:45pm–2:00pm
(15m)
Performance
Hotmail's Performance Tuning Best Practices
Aladdin Nassar
(Microsoft - Hotmail)
How does Hotmail balance between the demands of a rich UI that is also performant? This presentation covers the lessons learnt, how to measure performance, and the trade-offs between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.
2:00pm–2:15pm
(15m)
Performance
Lessons Learned in Live Search Moving to and then Away from Ajax
Eric Schurman
(Microsoft)
More information coming soon
2:15pm–2:30pm
(15m)
Performance
Incorporating Performance into Ad Serving
More information coming soon
2:30pm–3:15pm
(45m)
Performance
High-performance Ajax Applications
Julien Lecomte
(Yahoo!)
Taking off from where the Yahoo! Exceptional Performance rules leave off, find out what it takes to design, implement, and test high performance Ajax applications, including common (and less common) techniques and patterns, and a case study.
3:45pm–4:30pm
(45m)
Performance
Cadillac or Nascar? A Non-Religious Investigation of Modern Web Technologies
Akara Sucharitakul
(Sun Microsystems Inc.) et al
Deciding which web technology is right for you and your new web application? You don't want to miss this session. We'll provide our experiences creating and testing a social networking application using three technologies: PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Java. All implementations are tested with components commonly used in large scale web sites, i.e., MySQL and Memcached.
4:30pm–4:45pm
(15m)
Improving Netflix Performance
Bill Scott
(Netflix)
At Netflix we have implemented round trip tracing to get an accurate measure of the end user performance experience. With this data in hand we are marching through the set of YSlow recommendations + others and tracking the measured improvements.
4:45pm–5:00pm
(15m)
Performance
What’s New in Firefox 3
Mike Connor
(Mozilla Corporation)
In this session, Mike Connor, lead developer for Mozilla Firefox, will discuss the major performance improvements to Firefox 3, including speed, memory usage, and reliability.
5:00pm–5:15pm
(15m)
Performance
IE 8 What's Coming
More information coming soon
5:15pm–6:00pm
(45m)
Performance
Performance Metrics
Steve Souders
(Google) et al
Do people in your organization argue about the best way to measure response time? Is there confusion about the difference between availability and responsiveness? Do your tools not scale well? Why are things getting slower even though you keep adding resources? This panel of performance directors will discuss the challenges and successes in their work.
12:00pm–1:00pm
(1h)
Break: Lunch
8:00am–9:00am
(1h)
Break: Continental Breakfast
10:30am–11:00am
(30m)
Break: AM Break
3:15pm–3:45pm
(30m)
Break: PM Break
9:00am–9:15am
(15m)
Keynote
Welcome
Steve Souders
(Google) et al
Welcome
9:15am–9:45am
(30m)
Plenary: Keynote
To be confirmed
9:45am–10:00am
(15m)
Plenary
To be confirmed
10:00am–10:15am
(15m)
General
Keynote
Artur Bergman
(Wikia)
Artur Bergman
10:15am–10:30am
(15m)
Plenary: Diamond 1
To be confirmed
11:00am–11:45am
(45m)
Operations
Energy Efficient Operations: Some Challenges and Opportunities
Luiz Barroso
(Google)
Managing the energy-related costs of computing operations has become a first order concern for many organizations. In this talk Luiz Barroso will outline some of the important energy cost and usage trends in datacenter operations, and describe a few of the key areas where there is significant potential for efficiency improvements.
11:45am–12:00pm
(15m)
Keynote
Clouds Are No Substitute for Competence
Javier Soltero
(Hyperic, Inc.)
Just as people are beginning to understand the difference between web ops and IT, we are entering a period where clouds promise “Ops-Free” computing. We’ll talk about the emergence of web operations as a discipline, and how cloud computing simply changes, instead of eliminating, the importance of web operations.
6:00pm–7:30pm
(1h 30m)
Event
Velocity Sponsor Gallery Reception
Visit the exhibitors, mingle with other attendees, and enjoy great refreshments and drinks at the evening reception.
8:45pm–10:45pm
(2h)
Event
Ignite Velocity
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Would you pitch a project? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? This high-energy, fast-paced event will feature up to 20 Ignite presentations. Sign up information and event details will be posted soon.
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