OK we’re wrapping up the programming on Day 1 of Velocity 2013 with a Hands-on Web Performance Optimization Workshop. Velocity started as equal parts Web front end performance stuff and operations; I was into both but my path lead me…
OK we’re wrapping up the programming on Day 1 of Velocity 2013 with a Hands-on Web Performance Optimization Workshop. Velocity started as equal parts Web front end performance stuff and operations; I was into both but my path lead me…
Hi all! My new job’s been affording me few opportunities for blogging, but I’m getting into the groove, so you should see more of me now. Releasing All The Time! Continuous integration is the bomb. We can all generally agree…
Welcome to the second installment in Scrum for Operations, a series where I talk about (and go through) the process of doing systems work as part of a DevOps team according to the Scrum methodology. Last time, I introduced the…
Agile It’s not a mandatory part of DevOps, but I believe that DevOps works a lot better if operations teams adopt Agile. But all that most systems teams know about Agile is that “it’s that thing that makes the development…
How do you make your Web site secure? “SSL!” is the immediate response. It’s a shame that there are so many pain points surrounding using SSL. It slows things down. On ni.com we bought a hardware SSL accelerator, but in…
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…
Next weekend, Jan 30 2009, there’s a Web Ops get-together here in Austin called OpsCamp! It’ll be a Web ops “unconference” with a cloud focus. Right up our alley! We hope to see you there.
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…
