Velocity Santa Clara 2015
2015-05-27..2015-05-29
Santa Clara, United States
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Securing Organizations Through Bad Behavior | Laura Bell | 18m |
Organizations face mostly simple, opportunistic attacks that target passwords, misconfigured internet-facing systems, and human helpers rather than exotic zero… | ||
| Lessons Learned for Large-Scale Apps... | Dana Quinn | 10m |
Intuit moves nonproduction build environments and load test generation to public cloud first, then shifts decoupled production pieces like marketing sites and… | ||
| Addressing Operational Challenges... | Dave McCrory | 05m |
Claims that managing polyglot data stores creates integration and operational pain, cites 4.4 zettabytes now, 44 by 2020 and "90% of data created in the last… | ||
| Maintaining Performance and Reliability on the Edge | Robert Peters | 06m |
Verizon Digital Media Services builds a tool called Coal Mine to manage canary releases across a global CDN, with a live dashboard that links to server… | ||
| Engineering for the Long Game | Astrid Atkinson | 19m |
A roadmap for making a large distributed service sustainable: aim for exponential scaling with sublinear team growth by offloading machine ops to orchestration… | ||
| Not Your Parents' | Jessica DeVita, Jennelle Crothers | 05m |
Microsoft presents itself as a developer-first cloud: Azure runs in 19 regions worldwide, treats Linux as a first-class citizen with 21% Linux workloads, and… | ||
| Prevent, Rather than Fix: Scaling to Enable Customers | Jason Ding | 06m |
Choose simulation over reactive fixes by running high-fidelity simulation of a large customer before go-live, using representative data and configs and scripts… | ||
| A Practical Type of Empathy | Indi Young | 27m |
Argues that cognitive empathy — mapping the inner voice, guiding principles and concrete reasoning people use to achieve intents — is the reliable, repeatable… | ||
| Great, You're Now a Software Company. Now What? | Patrick Lightbody | 11m |
Argues that winning companies become software businesses by instrumenting apps to turn user actions into revenue signals, cites an Apple Watch burrito button… | ||
| Reflections on Mountain Moving: The First Year of USDS | Mikey Dickerson | 20m |
Launched August 2014 and grown from ~130 people to a planned 500–600 with $20M then a $105M request, the team takes on immigration, VA, Social Security and… | ||
| 20,000 Leagues Inside the Optical Fiber | Ariya Hidayat | 10m |
Shows how lasers plus silica fiber trap light inside an 8 µm glass core and use coherence to encode data by amplitude, frequency and especially phase… | ||
| Beyond the Hype Cycle | Shane Evans | 06m |
Enterprise survey of ~1,500 customers shows only 28% automated testing today with a target of 40%, and QA investment rising to ~30% of a $3.6T IT spend; SWIFT… | ||
| Overcoming the Challenges of Image Delivery | Mohammed Aboul-Magd | 06m |
Web images now require scale and decision logic: the web delivers three quarters of a trillion JPEGs per day and a responsive e-commerce page can need 108… | ||
| Ensuring a Performant Web for the Next Billion People | Bruce Lawson | 19m |
Opera reports 350 million users and 120k transactions per second, compressing 23 petabytes last month; Opera Mini uses a server-rendered binary format that… | ||
| Measurement is Not Enough: Rise of Performance Analytics | Buddy Brewer | 06m |
Argues that raw measurements alone don't change outcomes and shows how to link real‑user timing (for example navigation timing and resource timing and mPulse… | ||
| Recruiting for Diversity in Tech | Laine Campbell | 16m |
Argues that diversity measurably improves outcomes: 75% of companies with two-dimensional diversity more likely to implement marketable ideas, 70% more likely… | ||
| Launches Digital Operations Center (DOC) | Mike Hendrickson | 12m |
Soasta unveils a command center that correlates business, performance and security metrics in real time, built after two years of work and testing across 100… | ||
| on their new analytics platform | Patrick Lightbody | 10m |
New Relic describes an analytics platform that stores application and business events, runs complex queries in New Relic Insights and processes over a billion… | ||
| on the Trends HP Sees in Mobile | Silvia Siqueira | 07m |
HP claims rapid mobile growth plus device-driven complexity that breaks front‑to‑back interactions and strains backends; HP positions software tools to manage… | ||
| on the State of Distributed Computing | Kelsey Hightower | 07m |
Argues that public cloud readiness plus freely available projects like Kubernetes make large-scale deployment practical today, not just theory; shows… | ||
| on Whether DevOps Needs a Manifesto | Katherine Daniels | 05m |
Argues that DevOps is not a tool — the common mistake is equating it with configuration management, Docker or the cloud — and shows that those technologies can… | ||
| on Performance Affecting Business Decisions | Adam Wray | 08m |
Argument that performance now changes business decisions, backed by concrete examples: a distributed-database platform that combines cluster management with… | ||
| on modern web perfomance | Tim Kadlec | 06m |
Describes running Radio Free Europe where users face poor connectivity, low‑power devices, blocked sites and life‑risking censorship so performance equals… | ||
| on unrealistic expectations in DevOps | Jennifer Davis | 11m |
Argues that the biggest misconception is DevOps is not about individuals — pressure to become a mystic full‑stack or “DevOps engineer” creates burnout and… | ||
| Interview with SOASTA's Gamiel Gran | Gamiel Gran | 09m |
SOASTA announces a cloud platform called the Digital Operations Center that stitches continuous load testing, functional testing and monitoring into a single… | ||
| on the data behind diversity in tech | Ann Sung Ruckstuhl | 09m |
Claims that companies with higher female senior-management percentages outperform peers, citing a Credit Suisse study that maps performance across 20%–35%… | ||
| Explains the Role of Verizon Digital Media Services | Robert Peters | 06m |
Verizon Digital Media Services runs a CDN plus video platform (Edgecast + Uplink) focused on performance and availability, and it mostly builds its own… | ||
| Is Trying to Fix the Web's Increasing Data Levels | Peter Blum | 08m |
A cloud client architecture adds a JavaScript nanovisor client-side component to users’ browsers that intercepts and redirects third‑party resources back into… | ||
| on the Shifting Culture of Web Performance | Alois Reitbauer | 08m |
Company Ruxit is about 2.5 years old, releases its product six months ago and claims rapid uptake—cites over 100 customers while also mentioning 69 in one… | ||
| on What to Avoid in Public Clouds | Dana Quinn | 09m |
Intuit begins cloud adoption with nonproduction mission-critical workloads—build environments and load-test generation—then scales production only after… | ||
| Discusses the "Candy Store" of IBM Emerging Technologies | David Boloker | 13m |
Bluemix runs on Cloud Foundry with a service catalog that already plugs in Watson (Alchemy APIs), BlazeMeter, New Relic and IBM’s own performance tooling, and… | ||
| on their Application Insights tools | Thomas Dohmke | 06m |
Application Insights is a real-time Azure service that combines APM + usage + availability + diagnostics so apps send telemetry and developers see crashes… | ||
| on Picking the Right Analytics Metrics | John Feminella | 04m |
Argues that a good performance metric meets four concrete criteria and offers how to apply them: simple, reproducible, credible, actionable is the proposed… | ||
| on Optimizing the Web for Emerging Economies | Bruce Lawson | 13m |
Five billion future users arrive on low-end $100 Android/Nokia phones over slow, patchy networks (India islands, Himalayan ranges) and often use proxy browsers… | ||
| Outlines the Risks Surrounding Distributed Systems | Astrid Atkinson | 07m |
Outlines that the biggest risk is unchecked complexity as distributed systems scale, recommends carving regular time to reduce overhead rather than hoping for… | ||
| Web performance, mobile app development, microservices: just part of the excitement | 01m | |
Velocity Santa Clara 2015 (May 27–29) focuses on applying web performance, mobile app development and microservices to business outcomes, with sessions and… | ||
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