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"I educated hundreds of people here at Time Inc., after the [Velocity] conference. The knowledge I gained and passed to others, impacted the way our business clients perceive their sites as successful. Of course, I'll send the endorsement for Velocity 2009!" —Alla Gringaus, Time, Inc.
"Velocity is the conference I always wanted. Instead of focusing on one particular product or technology, it focuses on the true problem of keeping websites fast and available, which a lot of us have to deal with" —Peter Zaitsev, CEO Percona Inc., co-author of High Performance MySQL
"I was an attendee and speaker at Velocity 2008, and was quite impressed. More than 600 people attended, and the folks I met ran the gamut from those wanting to learn from the experts, to the experts themselves. Velocity 2009 promises even more. This year it's a day longer, providing for more sessions and greater depth. There's not a better place to meet your peers in the Web Performance and Operations community." —Eric Goldsmith, AOL.
"Velocity '08 was the first conference dedicated to Internet and Web operators. I was extremely impressed by the technical depth of the tracks, presenters, and attendees. Velocity is now one of my three 'must go' yearly events even though it is only in its second year of operation. I'm very excited for this year's event and look forward to further engaging With other web scale players." —Randy Bias, GoGrid.
"Velocity 2008 was an event that gathered together top performance experts from companies such as Google, Yahoo!, Mozilla, AOL, Microsoft, Netflix and the developers of tools and applications like HTTPWatch, Fiddler, Firebug, and, of course, Firefox and IE. It was a great learning and networking experience and I'm looking forward to more of the same in 2009!" —Stoyan Stefanov, Yahoo!.
The Velocity conference is the best ops focused event I've been to, the content was highly technical and not just teaser." —Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Engine Yard.
"O'Reilly's Velocity conference is the intersection of a Venn diagram for web services and operations, and it demonstrates that both are getting more interesting as they gain in importance. If you're looking for the best topics and experts in these spaces or their confluence, this is the conference for you." —Luke Kanies, Reductive Labs, Creator of 'Puppet'
"Performance is one of the difficult frontiers that web developers must push against. Velocity is a good forum for exchanging sightings and explorations." —Douglas Crockford, Yahoo!, Author of JavaScript: The Good Parts
"The knowledge and contacts I picked up at Velocity 2008 have been of tremendous value throughout the year. Most interesting were the talks that had never-before printed information about internal performance characteristics of Internet Explorer. I can't wait for another dose from Velocity 2009." —Tony Gentilcore, Software Engineer, Google, Creator of 'Fasterfox'
"I personally found the Velocity summit one of the most practical conferences I attended all year. I took home a number of ideas that translated into improving performance on the Netflix site. One thing that really made the difference was all of the speakers were experienced practitioners. The other great thing was the abundance of short talks. By having more speakers the information was served up in a nice condensed manner." —Bill Scott, Netflix, co-author of Designing Web Interfaces
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Building a Better Internet
Velocity is the O'Reilly conference for developers and engineers building at internet scale, happening on June 22-24, 2009 in San Jose, California.
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 must be reliable without burning out the team.
The Velocity conference is where to learn how to build websites and services that are fast, scalable, efficient, and reliable. We're bringing together people from around the world who are doing the best performance and operations work to improve the experience of web users worldwide. Pages will be faster. Sites will have higher up-time. Companies will achieve more with less. The next cool startup will be able to scale more quickly and globally to serve a larger audience. Velocity is the key for crossing over from cool Web 2.0 features to sustainable websites.
Velocity 2009 will take place at The Fairmont San Jose in San Jose, CA.
Important Dates
Early registration opens in March 2009.
Standard registration begins May 2009.
Look Who's Coming to Velocity 2009
"I educated hundreds of people here at Time Inc., after the [Velocity] conference. The knowledge I gained and passed to others, impacted the way our business clients perceive their sites as successful. Of course, I'll send the endorsement for Velocity 2009!" —Alla Gringaus, Time, Inc.
"Velocity is the conference I always wanted. Instead of focusing on one particular product or technology, it focuses on the true problem of keeping websites fast and available, which a lot of us have to deal with" —Peter Zaitsev, CEO Percona Inc., co-author of High Performance MySQL
"I was an attendee and speaker at Velocity 2008, and was quite impressed. More than 600 people attended, and the folks I met ran the gamut from those wanting to learn from the experts, to the experts themselves. Velocity 2009 promises even more. This year it's a day longer, providing for more sessions and greater depth. There's not a better place to meet your peers in the Web Performance and Operations community." —Eric Goldsmith, AOL.
"Velocity '08 was the first conference dedicated to Internet and Web operators. I was extremely impressed by the technical depth of the tracks, presenters, and attendees. Velocity is now one of my three 'must go' yearly events even though it is only in its second year of operation. I'm very excited for this year's event and look forward to further engaging With other web scale players." —Randy Bias, GoGrid.
"Velocity 2008 was an event that gathered together top performance experts from companies such as Google, Yahoo!, Mozilla, AOL, Microsoft, Netflix and the developers of tools and applications like HTTPWatch, Fiddler, Firebug, and, of course, Firefox and IE. It was a great learning and networking experience and I'm looking forward to more of the same in 2009!" —Stoyan Stefanov, Yahoo!.
The Velocity conference is the best ops focused event I've been to, the content was highly technical and not just teaser." —Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Engine Yard.
"O'Reilly's Velocity conference is the intersection of a Venn diagram for web services and operations, and it demonstrates that both are getting more interesting as they gain in importance. If you're looking for the best topics and experts in these spaces or their confluence, this is the conference for you." —Luke Kanies, Reductive Labs, Creator of 'Puppet'
"Performance is one of the difficult frontiers that web developers must push against. Velocity is a good forum for exchanging sightings and explorations." —Douglas Crockford, Yahoo!, Author of JavaScript: The Good Parts
"The knowledge and contacts I picked up at Velocity 2008 have been of tremendous value throughout the year. Most interesting were the talks that had never-before printed information about internal performance characteristics of Internet Explorer. I can't wait for another dose from Velocity 2009." —Tony Gentilcore, Software Engineer, Google, Creator of 'Fasterfox'
"I personally found the Velocity summit one of the most practical conferences I attended all year. I took home a number of ideas that translated into improving performance on the Netflix site. One thing that really made the difference was all of the speakers were experienced practitioners. The other great thing was the abundance of short talks. By having more speakers the information was served up in a nice condensed manner." —Bill Scott, Netflix, co-author of Designing Web Interfaces
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