Velocity 2012 Schedule

Below are the confirmed and scheduled talks at Velocity 2012 (schedule subject to change).

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Mission City B1

9:00am Understanding and Optimizing Web Performance Metrics Bryan McQuade (Google)

11:00am A Web Perf Dashboard: Up & Running in 90 Minutes Aaron Kulick (@WalmartLabs), Cliff Crocker (SOASTA)

1:45pm Dev vs. Prod: Optimizing Your Site Without Making Your Build Process Suck Ian White (Neustar)

3:45pm The 90-Minute Mobile Optimization Life Cycle Hooman Beheshti (Strangeloop Networks)

Mission City B4

9:00am Mobile Web Application Performance Estelle Weyl (Standardista.com)

11:00am Taming the Mobile Beast Matt Welsh (Google), Patrick Meenan (Google)

1:45pm 11 Ways to Hack Puppet For Fun and Productivity Luke Kanies (Puppet Labs)

3:45pm Develop and Test Configuration Management Scripts with Vagrant Mitchell Hashimoto (Kiip)

Ballroom ABCD

9:00am Scaling Typekit: Infrastructure for Startups Paul Hammond (Typekit)

11:00am Michelin Starred Cooking with Chef Jon Cowie (Etsy)

1:45pm How to Walk Away From Your Outage Looking Like a HERO Teresa Dietrich (WebMD), Derek Chang (WebMD)

3:45pm Benchmarks, Performance, Scalability, and Capacity: What's Behind the Numbers? Baron Schwartz (VividCortex Inc)

Ballroom EF

11:00am Turning Operational Data into Gold at Expedia Eddie Satterly (Splunk)

1:45pm Develop, Deploy and Manage Tomorrow’s Applications…Today Shahar Erez (VMware), Komal Mangtani (Vmware)

3:45pm Introducing juju: Service Orchestration for the Cloud Jorge Castro (Canonical Ltd. / Ubuntu), Juan Negron (Canonical)

7:30pm Sponsored by GoDaddy
Room: Mission City Ballroom
Ignite Velocity, Sponsored by GoDaddy

12:30pm Lunch
Room: Pool Area

5:30pm Plenary
Room: Pool Area
Poolside Welcome Reception, Sponsored by Akamai

10:30am Break
Room: Ballroom Foyer

3:15pm Break
Room: Ballroom Foyer

9:00am-10:30am (1h 30m) Web Performance

Understanding and Optimizing Web Performance Metrics

Bryan McQuade (Google)

Come learn about the factors that influence web performance metrics such as onload, time to first byte, and above the fold time, as well as which web performance best practices can be applied to optimize each metric. We'll spend time doing deep dive analyses of example web pages to see which factors influence these metrics as well as what can be done to speed them up.

11:00am-12:30pm (1h 30m) Web Performance

A Web Perf Dashboard: Up & Running in 90 Minutes

Aaron Kulick (@WalmartLabs) et al

We (Cliff Crocker & Aaron Kulick) will take the audience through a working session that will leave them with a functional Web Performance Dashboard that they can customize to their individual needs. We will cover some of the available open source projects and tools as well as discuss the importance of synthetic vs real user monitoring (R.U.M.) and how they can be combined in a single pane.

1:45pm-3:15pm (1h 30m) Web Performance

Dev vs. Prod: Optimizing Your Site Without Making Your Build Process Suck

Ian White (Neustar)

Tools like YSlow and PageSpeed have popularized the notion that we can dramatically optimize the performance of our websites. But actually implementing those recommendations often puts a heavy burden on the development and deployment process. Come learn about real-world techniques using open source software to increase your website performance without drastically changing the way you develop.

3:45pm-5:15pm (1h 30m) Mobile Performance

The 90-Minute Mobile Optimization Life Cycle

Hooman Beheshti (Strangeloop Networks)

Two years ago, Velocity attendees watched as an unsuspecting website was subjected to automated optimization before their eyes in the workshop "The 90-Minute Optimization Life Cycle", rated one of the top 10 sessions of Velocity 2010. This year, Hooman Beheshti is back - this time to demonstrate the impact of advanced _mobile_ optimization techniques on another unsuspecting website.

9:00am-10:30am (1h 30m) Mobile Performance

Mobile Web Application Performance

Estelle Weyl (Standardista.com)

While perceived download speed is vital to web application performance, mobile brings additional concerns to the table. Mobile devices have limited bandwidth, limited storage, limited memory and limited battery life. With mobile device constraints in mind, use best mobile practices to develop responsive, effective web applications that perform regardless of OS or device.

11:00am-12:30pm (1h 30m) Mobile Performance

Taming the Mobile Beast

Matt Welsh (Google) et al

Measuring mobile website performance is often pretty hairy, involving a lot of mobile-specific knowledge. This tutorial aims to demystify the process by offering a deep dive into the many issues that impact mobile web performance, and cover some of the tools for measuring and tuning the performance of mobile sites.

1:45pm-3:15pm (1h 30m) Operations

11 Ways to Hack Puppet For Fun and Productivity

Luke Kanies (Puppet Labs)

Puppet is a great tool for getting real work done shockingly quickly, but it's also fantastically and easily extensible. In this talk, Luke Kanies, the founder of Puppet, will discuss how Puppet has focused on extensibility and its resultant benefits, including easier integration with other tools.

3:45pm-5:15pm (1h 30m) Operations

Develop and Test Configuration Management Scripts with Vagrant

Mitchell Hashimoto (Kiip)

Whether you use Chef, Puppet, or just basic shell scripting, there seems to be no clear way to incrementally develop and test scripts to provision a system. In this talk I'll introduce using local virtual machines managed by Vagrant as a way to achieve this, shortening the feedback loop and increasing productivity and confidence of configuration management script development.

9:00am-10:30am (1h 30m) Operations

Scaling Typekit: Infrastructure for Startups

Paul Hammond (Typekit)

A team of just 4 people scaled Typekit from an idea to a service delivering fonts to hundreds of thousands of websites. In this talk, we'll discuss how cloud services and the right amount of thinking allow small teams to deliver huge websites without big headaches.

11:00am-12:30pm (1h 30m) Operations

Michelin Starred Cooking with Chef

Jon Cowie (Etsy)

I'll talk about how to make Chef a less intimidating learning experience for beginners and advanced users alike by getting under the hood, taking a critical approach and experimenting. I'll delve into the Chef source code with real world examples of writing Knife plugins. I'll show some best practices we adopt at Etsy and how we've made Chef an integral part of our Engineering team's workflow.

1:45pm-3:15pm (1h 30m) Operations

How to Walk Away From Your Outage Looking Like a HERO

Teresa Dietrich (WebMD) et al

Using Outage and Incident Analysis templates we have developed and refined at WebMD, we will walk you through conducting your own investigation. We will cover everything from which data to collect, meaningful metrics to calculate, and how to feed your findings back into impacting improvements for the next event. We want to help you turn the trauma of an outage into a operational triumph.

3:45pm-5:15pm (1h 30m) Operations

Benchmarks, Performance, Scalability, and Capacity: What's Behind the Numbers?

Baron Schwartz (VividCortex Inc)

If you've read "How to Lie with Statistics," are you immune to numerical tricks? Not a session for math geeks, this tutorial is instead about how to determine what matters and what doesn't, how to see what's missing as well as what you're shown, and how to turn numbers into knowledge

11:00am-12:30pm (1h 30m) Sponsored

Turning Operational Data into Gold at Expedia

Eddie Satterly (Splunk)

Join Expedia to learn how they achieve operational efficiencies by using Splunk to ensure uptime, improve service delivery, optimize SEO/SEM and improve dev/ops collaboration.

1:45pm-3:15pm (1h 30m) Sponsored

Develop, Deploy and Manage Tomorrow’s Applications…Today

Shahar Erez (VMware) et al

Make your applications cloud ready while gaining application framework and architecture freedom of choice. Learn how VMware is simplifying, automating and standardizing the process of building, deploying and managing applications on hybrid cloud environments.

3:45pm-5:15pm (1h 30m) Sponsored

Introducing juju: Service Orchestration for the Cloud

Jorge Castro (Canonical Ltd. / Ubuntu) et al

Come join Juju experts who will answer your questions about writing your own Juju Charms to to easily deploy scalable services in the cloud. These tutorials are geared to software developers who want to contribute charms to the wider devops community in order to make deploying in the public and private cloud easier.

7:30pm-9:00pm (1h 30m) Event

Ignite Velocity, Sponsored by GoDaddy

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? We’ll find out again this year at Ignite Velocity.

12:30pm-1:45pm (1h 15m)

Break: Lunch

5:30pm-7:30pm (2h) Event

Poolside Welcome Reception, Sponsored by Akamai

Akamai is serious about web performance and operations, but they still like to have fun. Join Akamai by the poolside to network with fellow Velocity attendees while enjoying great food, drink and entertainment.

10:30am-11:00am (30m)

Break

3:15pm-3:45pm (30m)

Break

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