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 technologies. It’s implemented in PHP, JavaEE, and Ruby. It’ll be open sourced in the fall. […]
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 posting their writeups at some point as well – you can go to the Velocity […]
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 but at best they usually get a 50% success rate on that. First, Luiz Barroso […]
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 Web Systems’ team’s charter. (And our reputation with the ladies!) For a long time, we’ve […]
