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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…