After John Allspaw and Steve Souders caper about in fake muscles, we get started with the keynotes. Building for a Billion Users (Facebook) Jay Parikh, Facebook, spoke about building for a billion users. Several folks yesterday warned with phrases like…
Hello all! The Velocity cadre grows as the agile admins spread out. I’m here with Chris, Larry, and Victor from Bazaarvoice and our new friends Kevin, Bob, and Morgan from Powerreviews which is now Bazaarvoice’s West Coast office; Peco is…
Peco and I split up to cover more ground. I went to four workshops and here’s the details… Peco will have to chime in on his. First, Adrian Cockroft, Director of Cloud Architecture for Netflix, spoke on Netflix in the…
Two of the agile admins, Ernest and Peco, are in Santa Clara this week for our fourth Velocity conference! We’ve been to all of them and always get a lot out of them. It’s the first conference focused on Web performance…
Two of the three agile admins – myself and Peco – will be in Santa Clara for Velocity next week, and DevOpsDays following in Mountain View. If you’re going to be there (or lurk in the Silicon Valley area) feel…
O’Reilly’s Velocity conference is the only generalized Web ops and performance conference out there. We really like it; you can go to various other conferences and have 10-20% of the content useful to you as a Web Admin, or you…
Besides all the sessions, which were pretty good, a lot of the good info you get from conferences is by networking with other folks there and talking to vendors. Here are some of my top-value takeaways. Aptimize is a New…
After a hearty trip to Gordon Biersch, Peco went to the Ignite battery of five minute presentations, which he said was very good. I went to two Birds of a Feather sessions, which were not. The first was a general…
OK, I’ll be honest. I started out attending “Metrics that Matter – Approaches to Managing High Performance Web Sites” (presentation available!) by Ben Rushlo, Keynote proserv. I bailed after a half hour to the other one, not because the info…
Hadoop Operations: Managaing Big Data Clusters (see link on that page for preso) was given by Jeff Hammerbacher of Cloudera. Other good references – book: “Hadoop: The Definitive Guide“ preso: hadoop cluster management from USENIX 2009 Hadoop is an Apache…
