Schedule: Velocity Culture sessions

Over the past three years of the Velocity Conference, we’ve increasingly focused on the organizational culture required to succeed at scale. This track includes sessions targeted at the growing DevOps Movement, Agile Infrastructure & Operations, and more.

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1:00pm Wednesday, 06/23/2010
Performance Impact, Part Two: More Findings from the Front Lines of Web Acceleration
Ballroom AB
Joshua Bixby (Strangeloop Networks)
Last year at Velocity, Hooman Beheshti presented the findings from phase one of Strangeloop’s long-term research into the relationship between web performance and business benefits. The results were also published in Watching Websites. Since then, we’ve received a barrage of questions from the web performance community, which fueled phase two of our study. Read more.
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1:45pm Wednesday, 06/23/2010
A Day in the Life of Facebook Operations
Ballroom AB
Tom Cook (Quora)
A look at the tools and practices used at Facebook to support the #2 site in the world. Read more.
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2:30pm Wednesday, 06/23/2010
Psychology of Performance
Ballroom AB
Stoyan Stefanov (Facebook)
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. Read more.
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3:50pm Wednesday, 06/23/2010
Change Management: A Scientific Classification
Ballroom AB
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. Read more.
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4:35pm Wednesday, 06/23/2010
The Upside of Downtime: How to Turn a Disaster Into an Opportunity
Ballroom AB
Lenny Rachitsky (Webmetrics/Neustar)
The only sure thing about your site is that it will someday go down. More importantly, thanks to Twitter the news of that downtime will not stay a secret for long. What matters now is how you respond to that downtime. A little preparation up front, a focus on transparency, and authentic communication are the keys to surviving downtime with your reputation intact. Read more.
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5:20pm Wednesday, 06/23/2010
Removing the Human SPOF
Ballroom AB
Justin Huff (Google, Inc), Tim Wilfong (Google Inc)
The story of how Picnik removed a single point of failure by doubling it's operations staff from one person to two. We'll talk about when we made the move and how it worked out. Read more.
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1:00pm Thursday, 06/24/2010
Firefox
Ballroom CD
Chris Blizzard (Mozilla Foundation)
Details coming soon. Read more.
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1:25pm Thursday, 06/24/2010
Chrome Fast.
Ballroom CD
Mike Belshe (Google)
Find out what the Chrome team is working on to make the world's fastest browser even faster. Read more.
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1:50pm Thursday, 06/24/2010
Internet Explorer 9
Ballroom CD
Jason Weber (Microsoft)
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. Read more.
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2:30pm Thursday, 06/24/2010
Browser Panel
Ballroom CD
Steve Souders (Google), Chris Blizzard (Mozilla Foundation), Mike Belshe (Google), Jason Weber (Microsoft) Moderated by: Steve Souders
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. Read more.
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3:50pm Thursday, 06/24/2010
Ops Meta-Metrics: The Currency You Use to Pay For Change
Ballroom CD
John Allspaw (Etsy.com)
Change to production environments can cause a good deal of stress and strain amongst development and operations teams. More and more organizations are seeing benefits from deploying small code changes more frequently, for stability and productivity reasons. But how can you figure out how much change is appropriate for your application or your culture? Read more.
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4:35pm Thursday, 06/24/2010
Always Ship Trunk: Managing Change In Complex Websites
Ballroom CD
Paul Hammond (Typekit)
The challenges of running a website are different to managing downloadable software or an open source project, and require different approaches to version control. This session will take a look at the counterintuitive idea of shipping trunk and branching in code, which allows your developers to rapidly iterate in production without upsetting your operations team. Read more.
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5:20pm Thursday, 06/24/2010
Pipelining, Progressive Enhancement, and More: Making Facebook Twice as Fast
Ballroom CD
Jason Sobel (Facebook), Changhao Jiang (Facebook Inc.)
In 2009 the Facebook Engineering team set out to make the site twice as fast. This presentation will describe the technical innovations we made achieving that goal. It will specifically highlight two technologies: BigPipe, which pipelines the process for generating a webpage, and Primer, a simple JavaScript API that enables progressive enhancement. Read more.

For Velocity China sponsorship information for companies outside China, contact Yvonne Romaine at yromaine@oreilly.com.

  • Google
  • Strangeloop
  • Yahoo! Inc.
  • Dyn Inc.
  • Facebook
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • Tilera
  • AlertSite
  • AppDynamics
  • Aptimize
  • CDNetworks
  • Circonus
  • Cloudscaling
  • Clustrix
  • Coradiant
  • Dell
  • DTO Solutions
  • MaxiScale
  • Neustar
  • Nokia
  • NorthScale, Inc.
  • Shopzilla
  • Splunk
  • Virident
  • Zoompf
  • Neustar

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