Well, I’m finally home with a spare minute to write. I and the two guys who went to the conference with me (Peco and Robert) got a lot out of it. I apologize for the brevity of style of the conference writeups, but they were notes taken on a precariously balanced laptop, under [...]
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24 Jun, 2008 in
Application Performance Management, Automation, Conference, Velocity 2008 Conference by
Ernest
We’ve reached the last couple sessions at Velocity 2008. Read me! Love me!
We hear about Capacity Planning with John Allspaw of Flickr. He says: No benchmarks! Use real production data. (How? We had to develop a program called WebReplay to do this because no one had anything. [...]
After a tasty pseudo-Asian hotel lunch (though about anything would be tasty by now!), we move into the final stretch of afternoon sessions for Velocity. Everyone seems in a good mood after the interesting demos in the morning and the general success of the conference.
First, it’s the eagerly awaited Even Faster Web Sites. [...]
Welcome to the second (and final) day of the new Velocity Web performance and operations conference! I’m here to bring you the finest in big-hotel-ballroom-fueled info and drama from the day.
In the meantime, Peco had met our old friend Alistair Croll, once of Coradiant and now freelance, blogging on “Bitcurrent.” Oh, and also [...]
OK, now we’re to the final stretch of presentations for Day One.
“Cadillac or Nascar: A Non-Religious Investigation of Modern Web Technologies,” by Akara and Shanti from Sun.
Web20kit is a new reference architecture from Sun to evaluate modern Web technologies. It’s implemented in PHP, JavaEE, and Ruby. It’ll be open sourced in the fall.
It uses a [...]
23 Jun, 2008 in
Application Performance Management, Conference, High Availability, Velocity 2008 Conference by
Ernest
In the afternoon, we move into full session mode. There’s two tracks, and I can only cover one, but that’s what I have Peco and Robert around for! Well, that and to have someone to outdrink. (Ooo burn!) They’ll be posting their writeups at some point as well - you can go to the Velocity [...]
23 Jun, 2008 in
Application Performance Management, Conference, Green Computing, Velocity 2008 Conference by
Ernest
Just two more keynotes till lunch, but these are larger ones (the previous speakers were 15 minutes apiece; these are 45). I’ll try to take good notes; every conference always says they’re going to make all the slides available afterwards but at best they usually get a 50% success rate on that.
First, Luiz Barroso from [...]
I’m starting out the first year of Velocity, the new O’Reilly-sponsored Web Performance and Operations Conference, watching robots dance to Beck on a video screen. The conference’s tagline is “fast, scalable, resilient, available,” which is just about identical to our Web Systems’ team’s charter. (And our reputation with the ladies!)
For a long time, we’ve had [...]