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…
Ohhh my aching head. Apparently this is a commonly held problem, as the keynote hall is much more sparsely attended at 8:30 AM today than it was yesterday. Some great fun last night, we hung with the Cloudkick and Turner…
Two cloud systems management suppliers talk about their bidness! My comments in italics. Cloud Autoscaling in Enterprise Computing by George Reese (enStratus Networks LLC) How the Top Social Games Scale on the Cloud by Michael Crandell (RightScale, Inc) I am…
Whew! This is a marathon. Next, we have John Willis and Damon Edwards on The Infrastructure Philharmonic: How Out of Tune are Your Operations? I really wanted to see Lenny’s talk as well but had to make a hard decision. …
Andrew “Dice” Clay Schafer of Cloudscaling on Change Management – A Scientific Classification. The Dunning-Kruger effect says we can’t always judge our own level of competence. Often we prefer confidence over expertise. You have probably confidently deployed a disaster. Premise: …
