Below are the confirmed and scheduled talks at Velocity 2009 (schedule subject to change).
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Go beyond the case study and watch a real-time crash, analysis, repair and recovery of a web site under load. In this workshop Richard brings an actual web farm to the stage, load tests it to failure, diagnoses the problem and repairs it.
11:00am-12:30pm (1h 30m)
Operations
Introduction to Managed Infrastructure with Puppet
Luke Kanies (Reductive Labs)
This workshop provides a simple, working introduction to Puppet. It covers basic design guidelines, best practices for building your own Puppet installation, and all of the tools you'll use in the course of using Puppet.
1:45pm-3:15pm (1h 30m)
Operations
Hadoop Operations: Managing Big Data Clusters
Jeff Hammerbacher (Cloudera, Inc)
Do you manage big data for hungry users? Do you, or have you considered, using Hadoop? Come join the Cloudera team as we show you the tips and tricks we use to manage some of the largest Hadoop clusters in the world. We'll go over setup, upgrades, monitoring and optimization. Managing petabytes doesn't have to be hard - we'll show you how.
3:45pm-5:15pm (1h 30m)
Operations
Scalable Internet Architectures
Theo Schlossnagle (OmniTI)
Internet traffic spikes aren't what they used to be. It is now evident that even the smallest sites can suffer the attention of the global audience. This presentation dives into techniques to avoid collapse under dire circumstances. Looking at some real traffic spikes, we'll pinpoint what part of the architecture is crumbling under the load; then, walk though stop-gaps and complete solutions.
9:00am-10:30am (1h 30m)
Web Performance
Website Performance Analysis
Steve Souders (Google)
In this workshop, Steve Souders explains the rules he developed as part of YSlow, as well as new best practices he's developed while at Google. With those in mind, he analyzes several of today's popular websites to see how well they follow, or don't follow, this advice.
11:00am-12:30pm (1h 30m)
Web Performance
Writing Efficient JavaScript
Nicholas Zakas (Yahoo!)
The way that you write JavaScript can greatly affect the perceived performance of your page. Learn the coding techniques to keep your code running as fast as possible.
1:45pm-3:15pm (1h 30m)
Web Performance
The Fast and the Fabulous: 9 ways engineering and design come together to make your site slow.
Nicole Sullivan (Consultant)
You've got a sneaking suspicion that design impacts performance. What next? Your engineers know nothing about design and your designers know nothing about performance. How can you get everyone on the same page? Which design flaws must you absolutely avoid? How do engineers slow designs with poor CSS? This presentation covers the best practices in design and OO CSS for fast, maintainable sites.
3:45pm-5:15pm (1h 30m)
Web Performance
Metrics that Matter - Approaches To Managing High Performing Websites
Ben Rushlo (Keynote Systems Inc.)
Managing the technical quality of your website has become extremely complex and the number of metrics you collect has skyrocketed.
Faced with potentially hundreds of candidate metrics, how do you select those that are most meaningful? In this session you will learn which technical quality metrics are key for successfully managing your site.
8:00pm-9:00pm (1h)
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? We'll find out this year at Ignite Velocity.
10:30am-11:00am (30m)
Break: Morning Break
12:30pm-1:45pm (1h 15m)
Break: Lunch
3:15pm-3:45pm (30m)
Break: Afternoon Break
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