Re: O'Reilly Announces Velocity Conference

> 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.