Top Experts in Web Performance and Operations Draw High Turnout
O’Reilly Velocity Conference Shows How to Achieve Website Speed and Reliability

Sebastopol, CA, July 16, 2009—The second year of the O'’Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference drew more than 700 web developers and experts, a larger group than attended last year’s, to San Jose June 22-24, 2009. They came to Velocity to pose their toughest questions to the people doing the best performance and operations work in the world.

“The fact that attendance has surpassed last year says something about the growing importance of this new field,” said O’Reilly Media founder and CEO, Tim O’Reilly.

Conference co-chairs Steve Souders of Google and Jesse Robbins of OpsCode and O’Reilly Radar designed the three-day conference with dedicated tracks for both web performance and web operations. Among nearly 80 speakers were some of the most innovative minds at industry-leading companies.

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