Schedule
Below are the confirmed and scheduled talks at Velocity 2008 (schedule subject to change).
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Monday, 06/23/2008
8:00am
Monday, 06/23/2008
Location: Salon Foyer
Continental Breakfast
(1h)
9:00am
Location: Salons E-F
Steve Souders (Google),
Jesse Robbins (Opscode)
Welcome
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9:15am
Location: Salons E-F
Bill Coleman (Cassatt Corporation)
More information coming soon
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9:30am
Location: Salons E-F
Vik Chaudhary (Keynote Systems, Inc.),
Abelardo Gonzalez (Keynote Systems)
Get an early look at KITE - the Keynote Internet Testing Environment. KITE tests and analyzes the performance of web applications from your desktop and locations around the world. KITE allows advanced scripting, detailed network performance and DOM analysis, and the ability to gather data from hundreds of geographic locations worldwide.
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9:45am
Location: Salons E-F
Scott Ruthfield (Rooster Park Consulting)
Jiffy is a new open-source end-to-end system built by the WhitePages.com team for instrumenting your web pages, capturing client-side timings for any event that you determine, and storing and reporting on those timings. Learn about the motivations, goals, lessons learned, and how to participate.
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10:00am
Location: Salons E-F
Artur Bergman (Wikia/Fastly)
Importance of Operations and Performance.
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10:15am
Location: Salons E-F
John Fowler (Sun Microsystems)
More information coming soon
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11:00am
Location: Salons E-F
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.
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11:45am
Location: Salons E-F
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.
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1:00pm
Steve Souders (Google),
Ryan Breen (Gomez Inc. ),
Bill Scott (Meebo),
Ernest Mueller (National Instruments Corporation),
Scott Ruthfield (Rooster Park Consulting)
Fast web pages are critical to a good user experience, but what is "response time" and how should it be measured? This panel discusses what parts of page loading should be measured and the importance of perceived versus instrumented speed.
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Jacob Rosenberg (AOL),
Michael Gordon (Limelight Networks),
Keith Oslakovic (Akamai Technologies),
Laird Popkin (Pando Networks),
Patrick Harr (Nirvanix)
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.
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1:45pm
Mandi Walls (Opscode)
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.
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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.
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2:00pm
2:15pm
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.
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Jason Grigsby (Cloud Four)
The Mobile Web is the wild west when compared to desktop browsers. There is little information about how mobile browsers handle the factors that impact performance. Learn about the tests that Cloud Four has conducted on mobile browsers and our conclusions about how to build fast-loading mobile web pages.
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2:30pm
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.
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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.
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3:45pm
Jesse Robbins (Opscode),
Ezra Zygmuntowicz (EngineYard),
Jeff Barr (Amazon Web Services),
Jason Hoffman (Joyent, Inc.),
Peter Nickolov (3TERA),
Jonathan Bryce (Mosso, a division of Rackspace),
Paul Colton (Aptana, Inc.)
Moving into the Cloud is easy... if you know how to get off the ground. In this panel the leading providers of Infrastructure & Software-as-a-Service will discuss their similarities and unique advantages. The focus will be on which platforms are best suited to particular problems, what is required to get started, and what to expect as you grow..
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Akara Sucharitakul (Sun Microsystems Inc.),
Shanti Subramanyam (self.com)
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.
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4:30pm
Ken Cao (Microsoft Corporation)
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
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Bill Scott (Meebo)
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.
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4:45pm
Ezra Zygmuntowicz (EngineYard),
Jayson Vantuyl (Engine Yard)
Vertebra is a next generation Cloud Computing Platform built with Erlang/Ruby and centered around Ejabberd and XMPP. Vertebra can be used for automating the cloud as well as for distributed real time application development.
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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.
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5:00pm
Sean Dawson (LinkedIn),
Ruslan Belkin (LinkedIn)
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.
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Christian Stockwell (Microsoft Corporation)
More information coming soon
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5:15pm
John Rauser (Amazon),
Peter Sevcik (NetForecast, Inc.),
Eric Goldsmith (AOL),
Eric Schurman (Amazon),
Vik Chaudhary (Keynote Systems, Inc.)
Sharing performance data across an organization is challenging. People want one number or one color (green or red), but often the key issues are only revealed when you look deeper. The panel of experts reviews examples of correlating performance metrics with business metrics, critical to anyone evangelizing better performance within their company.
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6:00pm
Location: Junior Ballroom
Visit the exhibitors, mingle with other attendees, and enjoy great refreshments and drinks at the evening reception.
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8:45pm
Location: Salons E-F
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 16 Ignite presentations. To sign up and for more information see:
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Tuesday, 06/24/2008
9:00am
Location: Salons E-F
Steve Souders (Google),
Jesse Robbins (Opscode)
Announcements
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9:15am
9:30am
Location: Salons E-F
Rich Wolski (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB))
In this talk, we will present Eucalyptus - an open source
implementation of cloud computing that is interface compatible with
Amazon.com's EC2.
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10:00am
Location: Salons E-F
Harald Prokop (Akamai Technologies)
Since 1999, Akamai has built a large-scale distributed system with 30,000+ servers spread across 1000+ networks and 70+ countries. Akamai's technology-at its core, applied mathematics and algorithms-manages the distribution of large content libraries and intelligently optimizes routes to accelerate dynamic sites and applications.
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11:00am
Location: Salons E-F
Simon Perkins (Simtec Limited)
HttpWatch is a commercial HTTP viewer and debugger for Internet Explorer.
It displays page level time charts allowing performance problems to be
quickly pinpointed. Trace files can be recorded manually, automatically or
using a programmatic interface. These file can then reviewed at a later date
using a stand-alone viewer.
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11:10am
Location: Salons E-F
Eric Lawrence (Microsoft)
The Fiddler Web Debugger enables capture, measurement, replay, and modification of HTTP and HTTPS traffic from virtually any application, including all major browsers. A highly-customizable freeware platform, Fiddler is extensible using either Javascript or any .NET language.
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11:20am
Location: Salons E-F
Eric Goldsmith (AOL)
More information coming soon
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11:30am
Location: Salons E-F
John J. Barton (IBM)
Firebug is well known as a powerful, easy-to-use web-site inspector. Less well known are its performance analysis abilities. In addition to straightforward JavaScript code on web pages, some sites use dynamically loaded JavaScript or use JavaScript to interpret AJAX JSON strings.
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11:45am
Location: Salons E-F
Sean Quinlan (Google, Inc.)
At Google, we have built several large-scale storage systems on top
of commodity machines and networking. This talk will briefly
describe our storage infrastructure, highlight some of
the approaches we use to achieve reliability and availability,
and discuss future challenges.
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1:00pm
Adam Jacob (Opscode),
Shayan Zadeh (Zoosk, Inc. ),
Brian Moon (dealnews.com),
Don MacAskill (SmugMug),
John Allspaw (Etsy.com),
Michael Halligan (DatacenterJunkie),
Frank Mashraqi (Opportunities)
Success comes suddenly, and often means scaling from tens of servers to thousands in a few hours. This panel will explore what happens when you get TechCrunched, Dugg, Slashdotted, and even "Oprahed"... all at once. The focus will be on what the traffic looks like, how you can do to prepare in advance, and what to do when it happens.
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Steve Souders (Google)
Souders' book, "High Performance Web Sites," describes the 14 best practices he developed while working as the Chief Performance Yahoo!. YSlow, the Firebug extension he created, codified those best practices. Now working at Google, Souders discusses the next set of best practices he's discovered, including the best ways to load JavaScript and where to place (and where not to place) inline scripts.
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1:45pm
Adam Bechtel (Yahoo!)
As a web site scales, the plumbing (i.e., network) creates opportunities for performance gains. This session looks at evolving a web site's plumbing from a single location to a multinational network with anycast and caching services.
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Ben Livshits (Microsoft Research)
Modern Web 2.0 applications, such as GMail, Live Maps, Facebook, and many others, use Ajax to push page generation and content manipulation to the client web browser. This improves the responsiveness of these network-bound applications. We present Doloto, a system that analyzes application workloads and automatically performs code splitting of existing large Web 2.0 applications.
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2:00pm
David Ulevitch (OpenDNS)
For most operators, BGP is black magic. So is scaling past a single datacenter. Not anymore. Using OpenDNS' global network as a real example you will get a complete picture of what's required to build and run a global fault-tolerant network spanning multiple datacenters. This includes how to load balance using standard routing protocols like OSPF and BGP (Anycast).
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Stoyan Stefanov (Facebook)
Do you want to speed up your web pages and lower you hosting bills? Do you want to do this with little or no code changes while keeping the same beautiful UI? Come and learn about 7 simple steps to put your web images on a diet. Take off (and keep off) all the bytes you put on under the stress of chasing that next killer feature.
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2:15pm
Wei-Hsin Lee (Google, Inc. )
Shared Dictionary Compression over HTTP protocol (SDCH) aims at reducing data
redundancy across HTTP responses. The protocol is meant to work with current
schemes (gzip, deflate) to further compress the HTTP responses. This protocol is
different from original proposed rfc3229 (differential compression), as it does not
require the browser to cache the last version of pages.
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2:30pm
Adam Jacob (Opscode)
By utilizing a demonstration company running in EC2, we'll show you what all the components of an automated infrastructure are, how they work together to solve real problems, and why they provide an important competitive advantage.
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Eric Lawrence (Microsoft),
Mike Connor (Mozilla Corporation),
Christian Stockwell (Microsoft Corporation)
Learn how to wring the most performance out of Internet Explorer, taking advantage of caching, compression, and Ajax performance improvements; also how developers can use technologies available in Firefox to make web pages run at top speeds.
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3:45pm
John Allspaw (Etsy.com)
Planning and managing capacity for a fast-growing website can be a balancing act between buying too little/late, and too much/soon.
Your process of capacity planning should be *adaptive*, *adjustable*, and include more than just system statistics. Measurement, architecture, and economics are all equally important to having your site perform.
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Peter Zaitsev (Percona Inc)
As your web application grows, no matter how you optimize it, you will come to the point when a single MySQL server is unable to keep up. Sharding and Replication are powerful techniques that allow you to scale your application to use Multiple MySQL servers.
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4:30pm
Skye Rogers (UTi)
If your company is (or hopes to be) publicly traded, you're going to have to deal with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. This brief presentation will teach you how to use compliance requirements and process to improve existing operational issues.
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Artur Bergman (Wikia/Fastly)
Experiences of running cache front end servers and migrating from Squid to Varnish. Increasing speed, reducing cost and enabling flexibility.
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4:45pm
Steve Souders (Google),
Tony Ralph (Yahoo!),
Eric Goldsmith (AOL),
Artur Bergman (Wikia/Fastly),
Kai Hansen (Google Ireland Ltd.)
Advertising is a multi-billion dollar industry that supports many of the Web's most popular sites. And yet, ads are notorious for slowing down web pages. The experts on this panel discuss techniques you can deploy immediately to mitigate the impact of ads on your site's load times and efforts that are ongoing to establish a future where users, publishers, and advertisers surf in harmony.
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