Personal schedule for Clint Byrum
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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.
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Bret Piatt (Rackspace Hosting)
This workshop will cover Cassandra design, deployment, and operations in both a theoretical best case target for those building their own facilities as well as an evaluation of how it can be deployed on various public cloud platforms.
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Adam Jacob (Opscode),
Joshua Timberman (Opscode, Inc.),
Christopher Brown (Opscode),
Aaron Peterson (Opscode, Inc.)
Infrastructure is code – the separation between how you manage your infrastructure and how you build your applications is disappearing. Adam Jacob, CTO of Opscode and primary author of Chef, will teach you what this means in practice – through showing how to deploy real-world applications with Chef on EC2.
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Ward Spangenberg (Zynga Game Network, Inc.)
Taking a look at security and privacy in the cloud. We’ll examine the new risks, and what tools can mitigate them. We’ll discuss governance, compliance, and what systems we need to use to access cloud resources securely. We’ll deal with identity, single-sign-on, and so on. The goal is to determine whether security can be accomplished in the cloud.
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Napa 1
Moderated by: Clint Byrum
Ubuntu Server includes a number of interesting features that users may be interested in. We'll do a brief demo of Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, run down some of the new things coming in Ubuntu Server 10.10, and respond to any questions/feedback that we can.
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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)
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)
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)
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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Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
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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Mark Nottingham (Yahoo!)
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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Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.)
Since the beginning, Rails has focused its energies on providing simple defaults for client-side performance. By embracing conventions, Rails has enabled users to gain the benefits of best practices without having to fully understand all the details. Learn how Rails has historically provided fast defaults, and how Rails 3 (and beyond) takes that to a new level.
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Andrew Shafer (Cloudscaling)
Change management is the combination of process and tools by which changes are made to production systems. Approaches range from cowboy style, making changes to the live site, to complex rituals with secret incantations, coming full circle to continuous deployment. This presentation will highlight milestone practices along this spectrum, establishing a matrix for evaluating deployment process.
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Thorsten von Eicken (RightScale, Inc)
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)
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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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)
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)
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)
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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Demos from HttpWatch, AOL Pagetest, Speed Tracer, and Fiddler.
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Robert Johnson (Facebook)
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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Neil Gunther (Performance Dynamics Company),
Shanti Subramanyam (self.com),
Stefan Parvu (Oracle Finland)
Much of the FOSS stack used for running webapps e.g., memcached, mysql, rails, has scalability limitations that are masked by the widespread adoption of horizontal scaleout. But as traffic growth forces the need for cheaper multicore servers, multithreading scalability becomes a real gotcha. This talk will show you how to see such issues ahead of time, quantify them, and improve on them.
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Nick Gerner (SEOmoz)
In this session you'll learn about measuring performance of cloud architectures. What simple off-the-shelf software is available? What performance indicators should you look at? What do those indicators tell you about cloud-based and traditional components? What kind of performance can you expect out of Amazon Web Services? Learn to measure, understand, and act on performance indicators.
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Sarah Novotny (Meteor Enterainment)
Different organizations mean different things when they talk about scaling. Sarah will offer some tips about a few different ways that this term is thrown around for MySQL databases. Each different dimension - data volume, read volume, and write volume - present different challenges to the operations and development staff working with the system.
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Adam Jacob (Opscode)
An interactive talk covering just the key points from 16 different topics, Infrastructure Automation, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management tools, the NoSQL movement, effective Monitoring, building Open Source Communities for Systems Administrators, Startup tips, and more. Come get your questions answered, hear the 5 minute version of the talk you missed - you choose your own adventure.
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