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…
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…
Introduction to Managed Infrastructure with Puppet by Luke Kanies, Reductive Labs You can get the work files from git://github.com/reductivelabs/velocity_puppet_workshop_2009.git, and the presentation’s available here. I saw Luke’s Puppet talk last year at Velocity 2008, but am more ready to start…
The first workshop on Monday morning was called Death of a Web Server: A Crisis in Caching. The presentation itself is downloadable from that link, so follow along! I took a lot of notes though because much of this was…
Velocity 2009 is well underway and going great! Here’s my blow by blow of how it went down. Peco, my erstwhile Bulgarian comrade, and I came in to San Jose from Austin on Sunday. We got situated at the fairly…
You’re in luck! Peco and I are attending Velocity 2009 and we’ll be taking notes and blogging about the conference. You can see what to expect by going back and reading my coverage of Velocity 2008! As Web Admins, we…
