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Velocity 2009 – The Web Performance and Operations Conference
You’re in luck! Peco and I are attending Velocity 2009 and we’ll be taking notes and blogging about the conference. You can see what to expect by going back and reading my coverage of Velocity 2008!...
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The Velocity 2009 Conference Experience
Velocity 2009 is well underway and going great! Here’s my blow by blow of how it went down. Peco, my erstwhile Bulgarian comrade, and I came in to San Jose from Austin on Sunday. We got situated at...
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Velocity 2009 – Death of a Web Server
The first workshop on Monday morning was called Death of a Web Server: A Crisis in Caching. The presentation itself is downloadable from that link, so follow along! I took a lot of notes though...
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Velocity 2009 – Introduction to Managed Infrastructure with Puppet
Introduction to Managed Infrastructure with Puppet by Luke Kanies, Reductive Labs You can get the work files from git://github.com/reductivelabs/velocity_puppet_workshop_2009.git, and the...
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Velocity 2009 – Hadoop Operations: Managing Big Data Clusters
Hadoop Operations: Managaing Big Data Clusters (see link on that page for preso) was given by Jeff Hammerbacher of Cloudera. Other good references - book: “Hadoop: The Definitive Guide“ preso: hadoop...
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Velocity 2009 – Scalable Internet Architectures
OK, I’ll be honest. I started out attending “Metrics that Matter – Approaches to Managing High Performance Web Sites” (presentation available!) by Ben Rushlo, Keynote proserv. I bailed after a half...
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Velocity 2009 – Monday Night
After a hearty trip to Gordon Biersch, Peco went to the Ignite battery of five minute presentations, which he said was very good. I went to two Birds of a Feather sessions, which were not. The first...
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Velocity 2009 – Best Tidbits
Besides all the sessions, which were pretty good, a lot of the good info you get from conferences is by networking with other folks there and talking to vendors. Here are some of my top-value...
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