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9:00am Monday, 06/22/2009

Website Performance Analysis

Web Performance
Location: Regency 2

Steve Souders (Google)

Average rating:

(4.45, 22 ratings)

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. Read more.

1:45pm Monday, 06/22/2009

The Fast and the Fabulous: 9 ways engineering and design come together to make your site slow.

Web Performance
Location: Regency 2

Nicole Sullivan (Stubbornella)

Average rating:

(3.29, 17 ratings)

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. Read more.

3:45pm Monday, 06/22/2009

Scalable Internet Architectures

Operations
Location: Regency 1

Theo Schlossnagle (OmniTI/Circonus)

Average rating:

(4.57, 35 ratings)

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. Read more.

1:00pm Tuesday, 06/23/2009

10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr

Operations
Location: Regency 1

John Allspaw (Etsy.com), Paul Hammond (-)

Average rating:

(4.85, 41 ratings)

Communications and cooperation between development and operations isn't optional, it's mandatory. Flickr takes the idea of "release early, release often" to an extreme - on a normal day there are 10 full deployments of the site to our servers. This session discusses why this rate of change works so well, and the culture and technology needed to make it possible. Read more.

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