Program chairs Jesse Robbins and Steve Souders have just unveiled the schedule for the second edition of Velocity, the web performance and operations conference. Building on the very successful premiere of the event last year, Velocity will feature some of the most talented experts in the business, giving all participants the skills and knowledge they need to raise their game and beef up the bottom line–critical functions in this down economy.
A sampling of the speakers and topics on the agenda include:
- Luke Kanies (Reductive Labs), Introduction to Managed Infrastructure with Puppet
- Mandi Walls (AOL), Migrating www.aol.com from a Proprietary Web Platform to Open Source
- John Allspaw and Paul Hammond (Flickr), 10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr
- Bill Scott (Netflix), Event Delegation: Speeding Up the Netflix Queue
- Douglas Crockford (Yahoo!), Ajax Performance
- Richard Campbell (Strangeloop Networks), Death of a Web Server: Crisis in Caching
- Jeremy Zawodny (Craigslist), MySQL Performance from Day #1
- John Adams (Twitter), Fixing Twitter: Improving Its Performance and Scalability
- Stoyan Stefanov (Yahoo!), YSlow 2.0
- Robert Johnson (Facebook), High Performance at Massive Scale - Lessons Learned at Facebook
- Nicole Sullivan, Nine Ways Engineering and Design Come Together to Make Your Site Slow
- Nicholas Zakas (Yahoo!), Writing Efficient JavaScript
New to Velocity 2009 is a full day of workshops, which will immerse participants more deeply into essential issues for making websites fast, scalable, efficient, and available.
Registration is also open; the early registration discount ends May 4.
