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…
Pipelining, Progressive Enhancement, and More: Making Facebook Twice as Fast by Jason Sobel (Facebook), Changhao Jiang (Facebook) It’s the last session of Velocity already! The companies are tearing down their booths, people are escaping to the airport. Today went really,…
Always Ship Trunk: Managing Change In Complex Websites by Paul Hammond (Typekit) No rest for the wicked. More sessions to write up. Let’s find out how to do feature switches, Flickr-style. My comments are in italics. Use revision control. Branching…
Common Sense Performance Indicators in the Cloud by Nick Gerner (SEOmoz) SEOmoz has been EC2/S3 based since 2008. They scaled from 50 to 500 nodes. Nick is a developer who wanted him some operational statistics! Their architecture has many tiers…
Protecting “Cloud” Secrets With Grendel by Sam Quigley (Square, Inc) and Coda Hale (Yammer, Inc.) Everyone stores private data. Passwords, credit cards, documents, etc. But also personal conversations, personal histories, usage patternns – that’s all private too. So you store…
After lunch, we start off with Hidden Scalability Gotchas in Memcached and Friends by Neil Gunther (Performance Dynamics Company), Shanti Subramanyam (Oracle Corporation), and Stefan Parvu (Oracle Finland). Scaling up versus scaling out. Bigger or more. There is no “best…
Check out the Velocity 2010 flickr set! And YouTube channel! Time for lightning demos. HTTPWatch A HTTP browser proxy that does the usual waterfalls from your Web pages. Version 7 is out! You can change fonts. They work in IE…
