Velocity Keynote Videos

• Bill Coleman, "Green Data Centers"
  13:08

• Sean Quinlan, "Storage at Scale"
  14:30
• John Fowler, "Innovation that Drives Opportunity for the Web Infrastructure"
  16:08
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About Velocity

Experience Velocity | Who Should Attend | Program Committee

Join us at Velocity, the O'Reilly conference dedicated to helping people build a better Internet.

Web companies, big and small, face the same challenges. Our pages must be fast, our infrastructure must scale up (and down) efficiently, and our sites and services must be reliable... without burning out the team. Velocity is the best place to learn from peers, exchange ideas with experts, and share best practices and painful lessons learned.

Why Attend

Build Faster Web Apps
Want to speed up your web site by 25% or more while reducing costs? At the Velocity Conference, you'll learn best practices for optimizing your web pages, specifically the performance of Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, and images. Even sites that had already been optimized can benefit, making for both a better customer experience and bottom line.

Quality Time with Experts
Take advantage of this rare opportunity to meet face to face with a cadre of industry leaders who are taking web performance and operations to the next level. Share ideas and get your toughest questions answered from the experts. Bring your team and your laptops, and leave with new insights.

Three Intense Days Devoted to Web Performance and Operations
Velocity packs a wealth of big ideas, know-how, and connections into three concentrated days. You'll be able to apply what you've learned immediately for high impact results and you'll come away prepared for what's ahead.

Experience Velocity

• Two tracks covering the key aspects of Web Performance and Operations in depth
• Inspirational keynote presentations that bring clarity to thorny issues
• Over 600 web developers and experts under one roof
• An Exhibit Hall featuring dozens of the latest tools and products
• Ignite, a rapid-fire showcase of amazing projects and ideas
• Fun evening events, Birds of a Feather sessions, and plenty of networking opportunities

Who Should Attend

• Developers, engineers, and managers from companies of all sizes
• Technical executives looking out for the bottom line
• CTOs and CIOs seeking to streamline operations
• Technology evangelists and entrepreneurs pushing their enterprise boundaries
• Researchers and academics

Velocity 2008 brought people from companies and organizations like: Adobe, Akamai, 4INFO, Inc., Alert Logic, Amazon Web Services, AOL, Ask.com, BitTorrent, BlueArc, Career Builder, Boeing, CNET Networks, Comcast, Cordiant, DeviceAnywhere, EngineYard, FirstRain, Inc., Flickr, Google, Hyperic, Innovative Interfaces, Intel, IT Structures, Keynote Systems, LinkedIn, Medallia, Inc., Microsoft, Mozilla Corporation, MySQL, Netflix, OpSource, photobucket.com, Rediff.com, RightScale, Salesforce.com, Serena, Shopzilla, Six Apart, Spurkle Ltd., StumbleUpon, Sun Microsystems, Ticketmaster, Tucows, Verizon Business, WhitePages.com

Velocity 2008 sponsors and exhibitors included: Akamai, Google, Hyperic, Sun Microsystems, 3Tera, Cordiant, Keynote Systems, Limelight Networks, Inc., OpSource, Amazon Web Services, BlueArc, ControlTier, DeviceAnywhere, RightScale, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Webmetrics

2008 Velocity Program Committee

Program Chairs

Jesse Robbins is CEO of OpsCode and a recognized expert in Infrastructure, Web Operations, and Emergency Management. He serves as co-chair of the Velocity Web Performance & Operations Conference and contributes to the O'Reilly Radar. Prior to co-founding OpsCode, he worked at Amazon.com with a title of “Master of Disaster” where he was responsible for Website Availability for every website bearing the Amazon brand. Jesse is a volunteer Firefighter/EMT and Emergency Manager, and he led a task force deployed in Operation Hurricane Katrina.

Steve Souders Steve Souders works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. His book High Performance Web Sites explains his best practices for performance along with the research and real-world results behind them. Steve is the creator of YSlow, Cuzillion, and Hammerhead. He is co-chair of Velocity and co-founder of the Firebug Working Group. He teaches CS193H High Performance Web Sites at Stanford, and frequently speaks at conferences including OSCON, The Ajax Experience, SXSW, and Web 2.0 Expo.

Committee Members

John Allspaw is currently Operations Engineering Manager at Flickr and the author of "The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources". Prior to Flickr, he's worn infrastructure and web ops hats at Friendster, Salon.com, InfoWorld, and MacWorld. In a previous life, he was a modeling and simulation engineer in the field of vehicle crashworthiness research. This means he's seen lots of things crash, not all of them servers and routers.

Artur Bergman, hacker and technologist at-large, is the director of engineering at Wikia, supporting its mission to compile and index the world's knowledge. He is also an enthusiastic apologist for federated identity and a board member of the OpenID Foundation. His current interests include semantic search, large scale infrastructure, open source development, federated instant messaging, neurotransmitters, and the future of cyborgs.

Scott Ruthfield is the founder of Rooster Park Consulting, focusing on executive technology consulting in the Seattle area, and is currently the interim VP of Development at Virtuoso, a luxury travel services and supply chain provider. Prior to that, he was the VP of Engineering & Technology at WhitePages.com, the world’s most popular people search engine, and led the development of Jiffy, an open-source package for real-world web page instrumentation and measurement. Before joining WhitePages, Scott was at Amazon.com, where he led technology and business strategy in areas including customer reviews, employee blogs, e-mail marketing and the (current) Gold Box.

Eric Schurman is currently a Principal Development Lead at Microsoft's Live Search, where he is responsible for making the site feel as responsive as possible to customers. Prior to that he's written books, written training software, worked for Adobe and Aldus, and run development for Microsoft's home page, Download Center, and various other properties.

Mandi Walls is a Principal System Administrator at AOL, where she is currently responsible for the daily care and feeding of AOL.com. She has also been involved with AOL's Channels, Video, News, and Travel sites. Prior to joining AOL, Mandi supported bioinformatics systems for the National Human Genome Research Center, and taught IT classes in systems management and security. Mandi holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from George Washington University and is pursuing an MBA at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School. In her spare time, Mandi is a technology tutor for the Fairfax County Library in Reston, Virginia, and is a member of Kiwanis International.