O'Reilly Announces Velocity Conference

[Luke Kanies-2]

Hi all,

O'Reilly has just announced that they'll be running a conference next  
summer on operations:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/radar/atom/~3/185555323/ 
oreilly_launche_1.html

This year's program committee includes: Artur Bergman (O'Reilly Radar  
& Wikia), Cal Henderson (Flickr & author of 'Building Scalable Web  
Sites'), Jon Jenkins (Amazon.com), and Eric Schurman (Live.com  
Search). We're ready to create this incredible conference, and invite  
your proposals to lead conference sessions. We are especially  
interested in the following topics:

     * Scaling experiences: What works, what doesn't, and how to tell  
the difference
     * CDNs - Getting content closer to the customer
     * Networking, DNS, and load balancing
     * Managing web services and SOAs
     * Making RIAs that are fast!
     * Maximizing database performance and efficiency
     * Optimizing production for customer experience
     * Capacity planning and load testing
     * Configuration management & Software Deployment
     * Infrastructure management, Monitoring, and Instrumentation
     * Incident Management and Business Continuity Planning
     * Virtualization in Production: Challenges & Opportunities
     * Policy / Process / Compliance in distributed environments

Looks like it's pretty web-site focused, but it should be interesting  
for others, too.

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[Steve Loughran-2]

Luke Kanies wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> O'Reilly has just announced that they'll be running a conference next  
> summer on operations:
>
> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/radar/atom/~3/185555323/ 
> oreilly_launche_1.html
>
> This year's program committee includes: Artur Bergman (O'Reilly Radar  
> & Wikia), Cal Henderson (Flickr & author of 'Building Scalable Web  
> Sites'), Jon Jenkins (Amazon.com), and Eric Schurman (Live.com  
> Search). We're ready to create this incredible conference, and invite  
> your proposals to lead conference sessions. We are especially  
> interested in the following topics:
>
>      * Scaling experiences: What works, what doesn't, and how to tell  
> the difference
>      * CDNs - Getting content closer to the customer
>      * Networking, DNS, and load balancing
>      * Managing web services and SOAs
>      * Making RIAs that are fast!
>      * Maximizing database performance and efficiency
>      * Optimizing production for customer experience
>      * Capacity planning and load testing
>      * Configuration management & Software Deployment
>      * Infrastructure management, Monitoring, and Instrumentation
>      * Incident Management and Business Continuity Planning
>      * Virtualization in Production: Challenges & Opportunities
>      * Policy / Process / Compliance in distributed environments
>
> Looks like it's pretty web-site focused, but it should be interesting  
> for others, too.

This does look kind of  interesting. At other ORA conferences, their
maker demos have been kind of fun. Perhaps we should propose something
similar: a demo evening where people show their tools at work,
presumably with a farm of servers supplied on demand by amazon or similar.

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[Luke Kanies]

On Nov 19, 2007, at 6:00 AM, Steve Loughran wrote:

> This does look kind of  interesting. At other ORA conferences, their
> maker demos have been kind of fun. Perhaps we should propose something
> similar: a demo evening where people show their tools at work,
> presumably with a farm of servers supplied on demand by amazon or  
> similar.

Hmm, that would be really cool, and it'd be something that both ORA  
and Amazon could really get behind.  I'm sure Amazon would love to  
see someone build a couple hundred EC2 images.

I'll be at the Summit for the conference in January, and I assume the  
Summit will involve planning for things like this.

I've pinged the organizers with the idea; thanks.

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