Personal schedule for Joel Weierman
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Theo Schlossnagle (OmniTI/Circonus)
Average rating:
(4.38, 40 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.
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Maximiliano Firtman (ITMaster Professional Training)
Average rating:
(3.62, 72 ratings)
For the last five years, we´ve talk, discuss and test all the web techniques for high performance. What about mobile web? How mobile web browsers do request and page rendering? How to optimize to the maximum the mobile web experience?
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Tom Hughes-Croucher (Jetpacks for Dinosaurs)
Average rating:
(3.54, 63 ratings)
I have made a map of everything involved in getting from your computer, via your ISP, to a web site and back to your eye balls. It's exhaustive, but that's the point. Where the heck should we optimize? This talk explores the important features of the web and where we should optimizes. Learn about the different ways people are optimizing the different pieces of the puzzle.
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Matt Sweeney (Yahoo!)
Average rating:
(1.96, 50 ratings)
For many developers, the modern web site has evolved into something more like an application, requiring more specialized tools to measure performance. This workshop will provide an overview of some of these tools. You will learn how to profile the loading and running of a web page in various browsers, identify performance bottlenecks, and examine ways to optimize the overall user experience.
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Steve Souders (Google),
Jesse Robbins (Opscode)
Jesse Robbins and Steve Souders welcome you to Velocity Conference 2010.
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James Hamilton (Amazon Web Services)
Average rating:
(4.17, 54 ratings)
This talk inventories high-scale service infrastructure costs and some of the innovations driven by optimizing for work done by joule and work done per dollar.
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Urs Hölzle (Google)
Average rating:
(4.11, 61 ratings)
It is possible that, working together, browsing the Web can be as fast as turning the pages in a book. This session describes initiatives for achieving this including faster browsers and improvements in TCP, DNS, SSL, and HTTP.
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Vik Chaudhary (Keynote Systems, Inc.),
Nisheeth Mohan (Keynote Systems)
Average rating:
(2.54, 50 ratings)
Keynote’s demos at Velocity demonstrate how you can improve your end-user’s experience for the next generation of Internet content, applications and services – the “Next Web”.
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Andreas Grabner (dynaTrace Software),
John J. Barton (IBM),
Stoyan Stefanov (Facebook),
Bryan McQuade (Google)
Average rating:
(3.58, 45 ratings)
Demos from dynaTrace, Firebug, YSlow, and Page Speed.
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Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.64, 55 ratings)
Tim O'Reilly shares his insights into the world of emerging technology, presenting his take on what matters most - and what will be most disruptive - to the tech community.
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Arvind Jain (Google),
Michael Kleber (Google)
Ads, widgets and other third-party content bring many benefits to your web pages and users. However, they often slow down your pages. We’ll share data on how page speed is affected by such content. We’ll also discuss recent work at Google to make ads as fast as possible, and what site owners and third-party content providers can do to make sure pages are not slowed down by them.
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Mark Nottingham (Akamai)
Average rating:
(4.00, 29 ratings)
You probably already set Expires headers, and maybe you use a CDN or have put an accelerator in front of your static images. But that's not all that Web intermediaries have to offer -- if you know where to look. Come along for a grab bag of techniques, tools and ways to (ab)use HTTP to the best (and occasionally worst) advantage.
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Leif Hedstrom (Cisco)
Average rating:
(3.21, 14 ratings)
Apache Traffic Server is an Open Source project implementing a caching HTTP proxy server, donated to the Apache Foundation by Yahoo! We will examine the technical details behind TS, and three ways TS is used to speed pageload times for a very large website.
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Stoyan Stefanov (Facebook)
Average rating:
(3.40, 48 ratings)
Running PageSpeed - all checks. YSlow - A. So what's next to do? Well, you can cheat! You know that time is relative - one hour with your mother-in-law feels much longer than one hour on the beach. The same way you can bend the perception of the page loading time and make the page feel faster, even though the RTT is the same.
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Nicholas Zakas (Box)
Average rating:
(4.57, 37 ratings)
In 2009, Yahoo! introduced an overhaul of its flagship site, www.yahoo.com. The move saw a shift from a mostly-static page to a dynamic, customizable, highly interactive page. What didn't change? Perceived performance by users. Learn the techniques that allowed a smooth transition for 100 million monthly users.
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Sergey Chernyshev (truTV (Turner))
Average rating:
(3.41, 29 ratings)
Featured by Steve Souders at Velocity Fall 2009, Show Slow is an open source tool that helps keeping track of performance metrics gathered over time using Yahoo’s YSlow and Google's Page Speed Firefox extensions using web-based *ESTful beacons. It provides easy to understand graphical representation of metric changes over time that makes decision making quick and easy.
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Andy Martone (Google)
Average rating:
(4.16, 31 ratings)
Google web search sees a lot of requests from modern browsers with a missing or mangled Accept-Encoding header. Google now tests these browsers' ability to understand compressed content, and if successful, sends gzipped responses back, resulting in a better user experience.
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Thorsten von Eicken (RightScale, Inc)
Average rating:
(3.56, 9 ratings)
This session will focus on best practices for scaling websites on the cloud using real-world case studies, including examples of how some of the top social games on the Web have used cloud computing to enable rapid, cost-effective growth.
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George Reese (enStratus Networks LLC)
Average rating:
(3.14, 7 ratings)
An examination of the issues that auto-scaling generates in the realm of enterprise cloud computing. This session will cover how the role of capacity planning changes, using multiple clouds to support cloud-bursting and cross-cloud scaling, and finally implementing financial controls into your autoscaling management.
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Exhibit Hall - Ballroom EF
Average rating:
(3.44, 9 ratings)
Visit the exhibitors, mingle with other attendees, and enjoy great refreshments and drinks at the evening reception.
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Napa 1, 2 or 3
Average rating:
(5.00, 1 rating)
Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions provide face to face exposure to those interested in the same projects and concepts. BoFs are happening Tuesday and Wednesday in the from 7:30p - 10:30p.
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Jesse Robbins (Opscode),
Steve Souders (Google)
Jesse Robbins and Steve Souders welcome you to day two of Velocity Conference 2010.
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John Rauser (Amazon)
Average rating:
(4.49, 61 ratings)
Many problems in web performance and operations are deeply cultural and only tangentially technical. Sadly, engineers are often very bad at creating cultural change. This talk presents four cases where clever people have created cultural change, and draws out the common lessons contained therein.
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John Adams (Twitter)
Average rating:
(3.60, 60 ratings)
Twitter has grown from a micro-blogging service to a real time communications system that is an underlying part of the web. With the rise of the service has come a scaling challenge, one that the operations and engineering team has met year after year. In this session, John will share some of their challenges from this year and to revisit the best practices that they've discovered along the way.
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Tim Morrow (Betfair)
Average rating:
(3.08, 48 ratings)
Shopzilla is one of the largest and most comprehensive comparison shopping networks on the planet. Delivering content to millions of users, thousands of times per second – FAST – is not just good for business, it's a competitive advantage. This talk will provide updated metrics on the value of performance for Shopzilla and our techniques for achieving, measuring and defaulting to high performance.
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Imad Mouline (Compuware)
Many developers wrongly assume Google.com- and Amazon.com-like performance and consistency when they enlist cloud computing services from these and other major cloud providers. But the truth is, developers must do the due diligence and insist on performance guarantees from the cloud provider.
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Average rating:
(3.87, 39 ratings)
Demos from HttpWatch, AOL Pagetest, Speed Tracer, and Fiddler.
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Robert Johnson (Facebook)
Average rating:
(3.42, 40 ratings)
Last year we made Facebook twice as fast, but it turns out that that's the easy part. The hard part is keeping it fast as things are constantly changing. I'll be talking about the code frameworks, tools, and engineering culture that come together to keep our site moving fast as our engineering team moves fast to build new products.
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Joshua Bixby (Strangeloop Networks)
Mobile web users are demanding. More than half say that they expect sites to download as quickly on their mobile devices as they do on their home computers. Three out of 5 say that poor performance will make them less likely to return to the site. And 40% say they'd likely visit a competitor's site next.
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Chris Blizzard (Mozilla Foundation)
Average rating:
(4.25, 16 ratings)
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Mike Belshe (Google)
Average rating:
(4.29, 17 ratings)
Find out what the Chrome team is working on to make the world's fastest browser even faster.
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Jason Weber (Microsoft)
Average rating:
(4.50, 22 ratings)
Internet Explorer 9 will fundamentally improve browser performance by taking full advantage of modern PC hardware. Learn how the new JavaScript compiler, new GPU powered graphics system, and new platform capabilities will make websites faster today while enabling the next generation of HTML5 applications through hardware acceleration.
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Steve Souders (Google),
Chris Blizzard (Mozilla Foundation),
Mike Belshe (Google),
Jason Weber (Microsoft)
Moderated by: Steve Souders
Average rating:
(4.14, 21 ratings)
Come hear from the Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome teams about what they're working on, and let them know what the next generation of browsers need to have to make web apps fast.
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Ben Livshits (Microsoft Research),
Ben Zorn (Microsoft Research)
Average rating:
(4.04, 24 ratings)
JavaScript is widely used in web-based applications and is increasing popular with developers. So-called ”browser wars” in recent years have focused on JavaScript performance, specifically claiming comparative results based on benchmark suites such as SunSpider and V8. We evaluate the behavior of JavaScript web applications from
commercial websites and compare this behavior with the benchmarks.
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Lindsey Simon (Twist)
Average rating:
(3.59, 17 ratings)
Browserscope is a crowd-driven test framework for profiling browsers. The goal is to track browsers becoming faster, safer and more consistent for both users and developers. This talk will dive into some of the progress we've seen as well as how you can use, and others are using, Browserscope to store and present their test data pivoting on the user agent.
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Philip Tellis (Yahoo!)
Average rating:
(3.47, 15 ratings)
Money can buy more bandwidth, but to improve latency, you need to increase the speed of light (or electricity). Latency is a problem that all network apps face, but web app designers need to worry a little more. Find out why and what you can do about it.
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Aladdin Nassar (Microsoft - Outlook.com)
Average rating:
(3.50, 14 ratings)
At this presentation, Hotmail will share with the Velocity Community its key findings surveying last-mile bandwidths and network latencies around the world.
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Ismail Elshareef (Edmunds, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.44, 9 ratings)
Ads are painful to deal with, but they pay the bills. Ismail Elshareef will share the lessons he learned on how to lessen the impact of third-party components, including ads, on site's performance. At Edmunds, they have iterated over multiple solutions until they found an optimal one that works and they'd like to share that with you.
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