11:59 p.m. Jan. 12 is the deadline to submit speaking proposals for Velocity, the O’Reilly conference on web performance and operations. The program committee is interested in presentations for a variety of skill levels around the following topics:
- How to tie web performance and operations to the bottom line
- Real-world incident management - getting “tight like a pit crew”
- Making websites as fast and reliable as desktop apps
- Networking, DNS, and load balancing
- Profiling’s not just on the backend: JavaScript, CSS, and the network
- Managing web services - flaming disasters you survived and lessons learned
- The intersection between performance and design
- Wicked cool (and actionable) metrics
- Ads, ads, ads - the performance killer?
- Troubleshooting in production
- How to scale and be fast on the social web
- Capacity planning and load testing
- Establishing performance and operations best practices within your organization
- Configuration management best (and worst) tools and practices
- Monitoring and instrumentation: Open Source, as a service, commercially supported solutions
- Using multiple CDNs to improve customer experience and reduce cost
A limited number of speaking opportunities are also available through conference sponsorship. Contact Sharon Cordesse at scordesse@oreilly.com for more information.
