Velocity conference co-chair Steve Souders recently participated in a webcast on “Even Faster Web Sites”:
Velocity is the new O'Reilly conference for people building at Internet scale for peak web performance.
Velocity conference co-chair Steve Souders recently participated in a webcast on “Even Faster Web Sites”:
Brady Forrest has posted an entry about one of the co-chairs of Velocity:
“Last week Steve Souders, the author of the O’Reilly book High Performance Web Sites and creator of Firefox plugin YSlow, presented his latest website performance findings at the Web 2.0 Expo.”
Steve Souders, co-chair of Velocity and author of High Performance Web Sites (at one point the #1 selling computer book on Amazon) will explain the Performance Golden Rule, review his performance best practices, and use YSlow to analyze the top web sites in the world. Introducing Steve will be Andy Oram, author, blogger, and senior editor for O’Reilly Media.
This is a free live event taking place Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 17:00 GMT for approximately 45 minutes. Attendance is limited, so register now. We’ll send you a reminder before the webcast. And please feel free to invite your friends and colleagues to join in!
Media partner Programmers Heaven has posted a summary of the conference.
We’ve just heard from program co-chairs Steve Souders and Jesse Robbins that more speakers have been added to the schedule for Velocity, our new web performance and operations conference, including Bill Scott from Netlix on Measuring Performance. The speaker list now includes folks from Microsoft, AOL, Amazon, Sun Microsystems, Mozilla, Farecast, LinkedIn, OpenDNS, plus many others sharing perspectives and expertise.
Brand new to the O’Reilly conference line-up this year is Velocity and we’re excited to be opening up a conversation in this space. Program chairs Steve Souders and Jesse Robbins have just unveiled the preliminary line-up of speakers and sessions, which follow two tracks: Performance and Operations. (Registering by May 5 saves you 350 bucks, too.)
A nice mention in the Config-mgmt mailing list blog regarding Velocity:
Looks like it’s pretty web-site focused, but it should be interesting
for others, too.
Here’s a mention for our latest conference: Velocity:
O’Reilly has announced a new conference called Velocity. From their front page:
Steve Souders, co-chair blogged about Velocity on Yahoo’s Developer Network:
Velocity conference co-chair, Jesse Robbins, posted the following:
Start your engines ladies and gentleman, Velocity 2008 call for participation is officially open!
Tim recently had an O’Reilly Radar post on high performance websites, which includes a discussion on our new conference: Velocity: