Velocity Conference Amsterdam 2015
2015-10-28..2015-10-30
Amsterdam, Netherlands
who it's for
web performance engineers, site reliability engineers, devops engineers, frontend developers, security engineers, platform engineers, product managers
topics
Bluetooth Low Energy integration; Eddystone URL beacons; JavaScript Bluetooth APIs; real user monitoring to robot crawl; continuous performance measurement; dependency vulnerability scanning (npm); WebPageTest on mobile networks; Terraform and AWS migration; chatops for incident response; threat modeling and adversary modeling; self-service government PaaS (Suru); conversational voice-based interfaces
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Physical Web is a Speed Issue | Scott Jenson | 18m |
Physical Web reduces friction by broadcasting URLs from devices so a phone can discover a web page for a parking meter or toy and complete actions with a tap… | ||
| Continuous Performance | Stijn Polfliet | 05m |
Conference claims show 17% deploy daily and argues continuous performance needs three concrete things: monitor business KPIs alongside front-end and back-end… | ||
| Stranger Danger: Tracking Vulnerabilities in Your Third Party Code | Guy Podjarny, Assaf Hefetzz | 14m |
A live demo runs Snyk Stranger against a Node app (npm ~200,000 packages, 2.5B monthly downloads) and immediately reports five vulnerabilities; one outdated… | ||
| From RUM to Robot Crawl Experience | Klaus Enzenhofer | 06m |
Monitoring often excludes robots; after enabling bot visibility, discovery shows 500,000–1,000,000 requests/day from Googlebot and similar crawlers, often… | ||
| Performance Voice in Your Head | Steve Souders, Mark Zeman | 07m |
Chrome DevTools and WebPageTest reveal a large background IMG uses a data-src attribute so JavaScript controls when it appears, and the image finishes… | ||
| Seeing the Invisible: Discovering Operations Expertise | John Allspaw | 20m |
Argues that expertise comes from studying everyday successful work rather than failures, based on a Lund University human factors master’s project and field… | ||
| A PaaS for Government | Anna Shipman | 15m |
Team prototypes a PaaS for UK government, evaluates Deis, Cloud Foundry and Suru prototype and uses Suru to stand up an initial platform; Suru runs about 400… | ||
| Designing for Security Outcomes | Eleanor Saitta | 18m |
Argues that security is about human outcomes, not just code, and prescribes concrete practices: use threat modeling early to catch requirement-level… | ||
| A Day in the Life: An Immersive Data Experience | David Boloker | 10m |
A working prototype of conversational computing replaces keyboard commands with voice and ties together cloud services to run a morning routine demo: checks… | ||
| Thinking about Thinking (About People) | Courtney W. Nash | 10m |
Shows that removing signs in Dutch shared space experiments actually cut objective crashes but some towns reversed changes because residents felt less safe… | ||
| Genesis: Terraforming a New Home for Firefox Crash Reporter | JP Schneider, Daniel phrawzty Maher | 23m |
Migrates the Socorro Firefox crash-reporter off a single datacenter into AWS, builds an automated continuous delivery pipeline with peer review, infra-as-code… | ||
| Can Monitoring Tools Pass the Turing Test? | Alois Reitbauer | 06m |
Claims a monitoring system can behave like a virtual teammate, using natural-language chatops to surface actionable incidents. A prototype wired to ruxit and… | ||
| Ensuring a High Performing Web for the Next Billion People | Bruce Lawson | 24m |
Opera Mini is a proxy browser used by 350 million people that renders sites server‑side, compresses pages about 90% compression, and served 23 PB last month at… | ||
| WebPageTest using real mobile networks | Steve Souders | 07m |
WebPageTest integrates with Headspin.io so tests run from real mobile networks in places like Bangalore, Rio and São Paulo instead of simulated throttling. The… | ||
| David Boloker Wants to Replace Keyboards with Voice Commands | David Boloker | 10m |
Claim is to replace the keyboard by using voice to capture intent and change actions in real time, demonstrated as three linked proofs of concept: a morning… | ||
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