Let’s say that you go to the same restaurant at least once a week for an entire year. The staff is always friendly, the menu always has something that sounds appealing, and the food is always good enough to keep you coming back for more. The only real drawback is that it usually takes a […]
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 can go here and have most of it be relevant! They’ve been doing some interim […]
Dave Artz has put together a simple Webcast tutorial on how to use webpagetest.org to measure and fix up your Web site. If all this talk about Web performance is a bit overwhelming, it’s a great novice tutorial. He walks through the entire process visually and explains each metric. Great job Dave!
We’ve reached the last couple sessions at Velocity 2008. Read me! Love me! We hear about Capacity Planning with John Allspaw of Flickr. He says: No benchmarks! Use real production data. (How? We had to develop a program called WebReplay to do this because no one had anything. We’re open sourcing it soon, stay tuned.) […]
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 […]
