Schedule: Velocity - O'Reilly Conferences, 06/23/2008

Schedule

Below are the confirmed and scheduled talks at Velocity 2008 (schedule subject to change).

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Salon E

1:00pm Session
Measuring Performance Steve Souders (SpeedCurve), Ryan Breen (Gomez Inc. ), Bill Scott (PayPal), Ernest Mueller (Bazaarvoice), Scott Ruthfield (Rooster Park Consulting)

1:45pm Session
Actionable Logging for Smoother Operation and Faster Recovery Rachel Walls (Opscode)

2:15pm Session
Stress, Load, and Performance Testing in Quality Assurance Goranka Bjedov (Google)

2:30pm Incident Command for IT: What We Can Learn from the Fire Department Brent Chapman (Great Circle Associates, Inc.)

3:45pm Session
Getting into the Cloud(s) Jesse Robbins (Orion Labs), Ezra Zygmuntowicz (EngineYard), Jeff Barr (Amazon Web Services), Jason Hoffman (Joyent, Inc.), Peter Nickolov (3TERA), Jonathan Bryce (Mosso, a division of Rackspace), Paul Colton (Aptana, Inc.)

4:30pm Session
Windows Live Search Infrastructure: Windows at Web-Scale Ken Cao (Microsoft Corporation)

4:45pm Session
Vertebra: Cloud Computing/Distributed Application Platform Ezra Zygmuntowicz (EngineYard), Jayson Vantuyl (Engine Yard)

5:00pm Session
LinkedIn Communication Architecture Sean Dawson (LinkedIn), Ruslan Belkin (LinkedIn)

5:15pm Performance Metrics John Rauser (Snapchat), Peter Sevcik (NetForecast, Inc.), Eric Goldsmith (AOL), Eric Schurman (Amazon), Vik Chaudhary (Keynote)

Salon A-D

1:00pm Session
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About CDNs (But Were Afraid to Ask) Jacob Rosenberg (AOL), Michael Gordon (Limelight Networks), Keith Oslakovic (Akamai Technologies), Laird Popkin (Pando Networks), Patrick Harr (Nirvanix)

1:45pm Session
Hotmail's Performance Tuning Best Practices Aladdin Nassar (Microsoft - Outlook.com)

2:00pm Session
Lessons Learned in Live Search Moving to and then Away from Ajax Eric Schurman (Amazon)

2:15pm Session
Mobile Browser Performance Factors Jason Grigsby (Cloud Four)

2:30pm High-performance Ajax Applications Julien Lecomte (Yahoo!)

3:45pm Session
Cadillac or Nascar? A Non-religious Investigation of Modern Web Technologies Akara Sucharitakul (Sun Microsystems Inc.), Shanti Subramanyam (Orzota, Inc.)

4:30pm Session
Improving Netflix Performance Bill Scott (PayPal)

4:45pm Session
What’s New in Firefox 3 Mike Connor (Mozilla Corporation)

5:00pm Session
IE 8 What's Coming Christian Stockwell (Microsoft Corporation)

5:15pm Panel
Wikipedia Domas Mituzas (Facebook)

12:00pm Lunch
Room: Bayside

8:00am Continental Breakfast
Room: Salon Foyer

10:30am AM Break
Room: Salon Foyer

3:15pm PM Break
Room: Salon Foyer

9:00am Plenary
Room: Salons E-F
Welcome Steve Souders (SpeedCurve), Jesse Robbins (Orion Labs)

9:15am Keynote
Room: Salons E-F
Green Data Centers Bill Coleman (Cassatt Corporation)

9:30am Plenary
Room: Salons E-F
Keynote Systems Launches KITE Vik Chaudhary (Keynote), Abelardo Gonzalez (Keynote Systems)

9:45am Plenary
Room: Salons E-F
Jiffy: Open Source Performance Measurement and Instrumentation Scott Ruthfield (Rooster Park Consulting)

10:00am Plenary
Room: Salons E-F
Importance of Operations and Performance Artur Bergman (Fastly)

10:15am Diamond 1
Room: Salons E-F
Innovation That Drives Opportunity for the Web Infrastructure John Fowler (Sun Microsystems)

11:00am Plenary
Room: Salons E-F
Energy Efficient Operations: Some Challenges and Opportunities Luiz Barroso (Google)

11:45am Diamond 2
Room: Salons E-F
Clouds Are No Substitute for Competence Javier Soltero (Hyperic, Inc.)

8:45pm Event
Room: Salons E-F
Ignite Velocity

6:00pm Velocity Exhibit Hall Reception
Room: Junior Ballroom
Velocity Sponsor Gallery Reception

1:00pm-1:45pm (45m) Performance

Measuring Performance

Steve Souders (SpeedCurve), Ryan Breen (Gomez Inc. ), Bill Scott (PayPal), Ernest Mueller (Bazaarvoice), Scott Ruthfield (Rooster Park Consulting)

Fast web pages are critical to a good user experience, but what is "response time" and how should it be measured? This panel discusses what parts of page loading should be measured and the importance of perceived versus instrumented speed.

1:45pm-2:15pm (30m) Operations

Actionable Logging for Smoother Operation and Faster Recovery

Rachel Walls (Opscode)

This talk focuses on tips for making application logs more useful to operations staff, particularly after a pager goes off at 3 a.m. We'll look at methods for managing logs, separating problems from metrics, and working with developers with a goal toward faster recovery after problems and automation of simple fixes.

2:15pm-2:30pm (15m) General

Stress, Load, and Performance Testing in Quality Assurance

Goranka Bjedov (Google)

What exactly are the differences between stress testing, load testing, and performance testing? Are there more things that can and should be done, and who should be responsible for doing them? This talk will attempt to answer these questions.

2:30pm-3:15pm (45m) Operations

Incident Command for IT: What We Can Learn from the Fire Department

Brent Chapman (Great Circle Associates, Inc.)

Have you ever wondered how fire departments organize themselves on the fly to deal with a major incident? How they effectively coordinate the efforts of multiple agencies? How they evolve the response as the incident changes? Brent Chapman will introduce the Incident Command System (ICS), and discuss how it can be applied to IT events, such as security incidents and service outages.

3:45pm-4:30pm (45m) Operations

Getting into the Cloud(s)

Jesse Robbins (Orion Labs), Ezra Zygmuntowicz (EngineYard), Jeff Barr (Amazon Web Services), Jason Hoffman (Joyent, Inc.), Peter Nickolov (3TERA), Jonathan Bryce (Mosso, a division of Rackspace), Paul Colton (Aptana, Inc.)

Moving into the Cloud is easy... if you know how to get off the ground. In this panel the leading providers of Infrastructure & Software-as-a-Service will discuss their similarities and unique advantages. The focus will be on which platforms are best suited to particular problems, what is required to get started, and what to expect as you grow..

4:30pm-4:45pm (15m) Operations

Windows Live Search Infrastructure: Windows at Web-Scale

Ken Cao (Microsoft Corporation)

You’ve seen how Google and Yahoo keep running 24/7, now it’s time to learn how Microsoft pulls it off…running Windows. This session will spill the beans on Microsoft’s Autopilot datacenter automation system and let you in on some of our future plans for running our ever-expanding server clusters

4:45pm-5:00pm (15m) Operations

Vertebra: Cloud Computing/Distributed Application Platform

Ezra Zygmuntowicz (EngineYard), Jayson Vantuyl (Engine Yard)

Vertebra is a next generation Cloud Computing Platform built with Erlang/Ruby and centered around Ejabberd and XMPP. Vertebra can be used for automating the cloud as well as for distributed real time application development.

5:00pm-5:15pm (15m) Operations

LinkedIn Communication Architecture

Sean Dawson (LinkedIn), Ruslan Belkin (LinkedIn)

The LinkedIn Communication Platform is built 100% on top of Java technologies and is responsible for handling all user communications and the distribution of network events. Learn about the architecture, implementation, and scalability challenges in building the communication platform for the world's largest and fastest growing professional networking service.

5:15pm-6:00pm (45m) Performance

Performance Metrics

John Rauser (Snapchat), Peter Sevcik (NetForecast, Inc.), Eric Goldsmith (AOL), Eric Schurman (Amazon), Vik Chaudhary (Keynote)

Sharing performance data across an organization is challenging. People want one number or one color (green or red), but often the key issues are only revealed when you look deeper. The panel of experts reviews examples of correlating performance metrics with business metrics, critical to anyone evangelizing better performance within their company.

1:00pm-1:45pm (45m) Operations

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About CDNs (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Jacob Rosenberg (AOL), Michael Gordon (Limelight Networks), Keith Oslakovic (Akamai Technologies), Laird Popkin (Pando Networks), Patrick Harr (Nirvanix)

Most major web sites use Content Delivery Networks to deliver their experience but there is quite a bit of mystery and misinformation about how they work, how they differ, and why they’re so key to performance. This discussion brings together a panel of several experts in the technology, both vendors and major users, to address some of the misconceptions.

1:45pm-2:00pm (15m) Performance

Hotmail's Performance Tuning Best Practices

Aladdin Nassar (Microsoft - Outlook.com)

How does Hotmail balance between the demands of a rich UI that is also performant? This presentation covers the lessons learnt, how to measure performance, and the trade-offs between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.

2:00pm-2:15pm (15m) Performance

Lessons Learned in Live Search Moving to and then Away from Ajax

Eric Schurman (Amazon)

More information coming soon

2:15pm-2:30pm (15m) Performance

Mobile Browser Performance Factors

Jason Grigsby (Cloud Four)

The Mobile Web is the wild west when compared to desktop browsers. There is little information about how mobile browsers handle the factors that impact performance. Learn about the tests that Cloud Four has conducted on mobile browsers and our conclusions about how to build fast-loading mobile web pages.

2:30pm-3:15pm (45m) Performance

High-performance Ajax Applications

Julien Lecomte (Yahoo!)

Taking off from where the Yahoo! Exceptional Performance rules leave off, find out what it takes to design, implement, and test high performance Ajax applications, including common (and less common) techniques and patterns, and a case study.

3:45pm-4:30pm (45m) Performance

Cadillac or Nascar? A Non-religious Investigation of Modern Web Technologies

Akara Sucharitakul (Sun Microsystems Inc.), Shanti Subramanyam (Orzota, Inc.)

Deciding which web technology is right for you and your new web application? You don't want to miss this session. We'll provide our experiences creating and testing a social networking application using three technologies: PHP, Ruby on Rails, and Java. All implementations are tested with components commonly used in large scale web sites, i.e., MySQL and Memcached.

4:30pm-4:45pm (15m) Performance

Improving Netflix Performance

Bill Scott (PayPal)

At Netflix we have implemented round trip tracing to get an accurate measure of the end user performance experience. With this data in hand we are marching through the set of YSlow recommendations + others and tracking the measured improvements.

4:45pm-5:00pm (15m) Performance

What’s New in Firefox 3

Mike Connor (Mozilla Corporation)

In this session, Mike Connor, lead developer for Mozilla Firefox, will discuss the major performance improvements to Firefox 3, including speed, memory usage, and reliability.

5:00pm-5:15pm (15m) Performance

IE 8 What's Coming

Christian Stockwell (Microsoft Corporation)

More information coming soon

5:15pm-6:00pm (45m) Operations

Wikipedia

Domas Mituzas (Facebook)

More information coming soon

12:00pm-1:00pm (1h)

Break: Lunch

8:00am-9:00am (1h)

Break: Continental Breakfast

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

Break: AM Break

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

Break: PM Break

9:00am-9:15am (15m) Keynote

Welcome

Steve Souders (SpeedCurve), Jesse Robbins (Orion Labs)

Welcome

9:15am-9:30am (15m) Keynote

Green Data Centers

Bill Coleman (Cassatt Corporation)

More information coming soon

9:30am-9:45am (15m) Keynote

Keynote Systems Launches KITE

Vik Chaudhary (Keynote), Abelardo Gonzalez (Keynote Systems)

Get an early look at KITE - the Keynote Internet Testing Environment. KITE tests and analyzes the performance of web applications from your desktop and locations around the world. KITE allows advanced scripting, detailed network performance and DOM analysis, and the ability to gather data from hundreds of geographic locations worldwide.

9:45am-10:00am (15m) Performance

Jiffy: Open Source Performance Measurement and Instrumentation

Scott Ruthfield (Rooster Park Consulting)

Jiffy is a new open-source end-to-end system built by the WhitePages.com team for instrumenting your web pages, capturing client-side timings for any event that you determine, and storing and reporting on those timings. Learn about the motivations, goals, lessons learned, and how to participate.

10:00am-10:15am (15m) General

Importance of Operations and Performance

Artur Bergman (Fastly)

Importance of Operations and Performance.

10:15am-10:30am (15m) Keynote

Innovation That Drives Opportunity for the Web Infrastructure

John Fowler (Sun Microsystems)

More information coming soon

11:00am-11:45am (45m) Operations

Energy Efficient Operations: Some Challenges and Opportunities

Luiz Barroso (Google)

Managing the energy-related costs of computing operations has become a first order concern for many organizations. In this talk Luiz Barroso will outline some of the important energy cost and usage trends in datacenter operations, and describe a few of the key areas where there is significant potential for efficiency improvements.

11:45am-12:00pm (15m) Keynote

Clouds Are No Substitute for Competence

Javier Soltero (Hyperic, Inc.)

Just as people are beginning to understand the difference between web ops and IT, we are entering a period where clouds promise “Ops-Free” computing. We’ll talk about the emergence of web operations as a discipline, and how cloud computing simply changes, instead of eliminating, the importance of web operations.

8:45pm-10:45pm (2h) Event

Ignite Velocity

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? This high-energy, fast-paced event will feature up to 16 Ignite presentations. To sign up and for more information see:

6:00pm-7:30pm (1h 30m) Event

Velocity Sponsor Gallery Reception

Visit the exhibitors, mingle with other attendees, and enjoy great refreshments and drinks at the evening reception.