Velocity Conference New York 2015
2015-09-28..2015-09-30
New York City, United States
who it's for
web performance engineers, site reliability engineers, operations engineers, devops engineers, engineering managers, frontend developers, performance analysts, platform engineers
topics
undersea optical fiber capacity; coherent optical modulation; responsive images with Client Hints; image transcoders and WebP; cdn and cloud availability limits; BGP and transit routing resilience; continuous delivery ship-sense-respond; consumer performance index and SLAs; monitoring tool evaluation techniques; auto-healing remediation engines; workforce diversity and training programs; conversational assistants with Bluemix and Hadoop
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| 20,000 Leagues Inside the Optical Fiber | Ariya Hidayat | 09m |
Historical milestones and concrete numbers explain how undersea networks move terabytes: glass fibers use 8 μm silica core and total internal reflection to… | ||
| Performance Engineering: We the people have spoken | Todd DeCapua | 12m |
Survey of ~400 US organizations finds 70% say importance is increasing, with 50% report significant outages tied to traffic and an average cost $5M per hour… | ||
| The Darker Side of Tech | Bryan Liles | 18m |
Argues cognitive bias in operations causes good tech to lose out, showing FreeBSD and Plan 9 were technically strong yet missed adoption while Docker gains… | ||
| Evolution of ＜img＞ | Colin Bendell | 06m |
History of the <img> tag moves from Netscape lowsrc to responsive images and modern formats but the practical claim is that sending the right file means you… | ||
| BDPA: From the Classroom to the Boardroom | Pamela Mathews | 07m |
Founded 40 years ago to broaden IT diversity, BDPA runs youth programs teaching web and mobile app development, project presentation and research skills to… | ||
| Is the Internet Reliable Yet? | Robert Peters | 11m |
Claim: global CDN and cloud delivery peak at ~99% (~3 days/year) availability, so the web behaves more like spaceflight than utilities (~1.5 hours/year for… | ||
| Lisa Gelobter Keynote - Velocity New York 2015 | Lisa Gelobter | 19m |
Private sector engineers join government teams and deliver measurable fixes: a seven-person rescue team in six weeks raises enrollments from 150 to 150,000 per… | ||
| Technology As If People Mattered | Dylan Richard | 11m |
Argues that effective tech starts by matching existing processes: replaces naive mobile app rush with paper-first workflows, adds small automated pieces on… | ||
| A Day in the Life: An Immersive Data Experience | David Boloker | 12m |
A runnable “day in my life” demo stitches about 50–100 components into a conversational assistant that handles calendar, email scanning, portfolio display… | ||
| Ship, Sense, and Respond: A Culture of Continuous Learning | Jeff Gothelf | 17m |
Argues that continuous deployment plus DevOps creates a repeatable ship sense and respond loop: deploy small changes, measure behavioral impact, then iterate… | ||
| Beyond Apdex: Defining a Precise SLA for Performance | Buddy Brewer | 08m |
Introduces a replacement for Apdex called the Consumer Performance Index that grades sites 0–100 based on how well load times match real user expectations… | ||
| Seeing the Invisible: Discovering Operations Expertise | John Allspaw | 18m |
Argues that understanding operations expertise requires studying everyday work not just failures, drawing on a masters in Human Factors and System Safety at… | ||
| Can Monitoring Tools Pass the Turing Test? | Alois Reitbauer | 08m |
A monitoring prototype uses AI and knowledge‑based anomaly detection to chat like an ops teammate, live‑connecting to a production cluster and found… | ||
| Escaping tabs with progressive (web) apps | Ilya Grigorik | 10m |
A live airhorner demo shows a website that sidesteps app-store friction: instead of an install flow that loses ~20% of users per step, loading airhorner.com… | ||
| Small Teams vs Big Teams | Bridget Kromhout | 07m |
Argues that modern open source tooling like Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos and Cloud Foundry democratizes production so a five-person Ops team can run an internet… | ||
| their Automation Products | Rich Bourdeau | 07m |
VMware shows two automation products: VRealize Automation for provisioning full multi‑tier application environments and Code Stream for automating the… | ||
| on the Emerging Technologies He's Working On | David Boloker | 08m |
Prototype ties calendar email and personal documents to real time news and social feeds and drives devices by voice so a single query triggers analytics… | ||
| Interview – Michael Sage | Michael Sage | 04m |
BlazeMeter claims to make load testing cheap and continuous by shipping an open source project called Taurus project that wraps JMeter with human editable… | ||
| Interview – Todd DeCapua | Todd DeCapua | 06m |
A 2015 survey of about 400 respondents finds 70% recognize an increased need for performance engineering and 65% use cloud load testing, and respondents… | ||
| Interview – Diane Mueller | Diane Mueller | 06m |
Red Hat rearchitects OpenShift around container orchestration by upstreaming and distributing Kubernetes distribution after partnering with Google, running an… | ||
| Interview with | Tom Lounibos | 11m |
Company launches the Digital Operation Center, a shared dashboard that aggregates user data into a single view usable on a wall, phone or laptop and meant to… | ||
| Interview with | Tammy Everts | 11m |
Performance measurement centers on a concrete metric: the Consumer Performance Index at consumerperformanceindex.com which combines synthetic and Pulse… | ||
| Interview with | Pete Cheslock | 05m |
Continuous delivery now integrates security testing into CI with tools that run static and aggressive runtime tests during the pipeline, and teams increasingly… | ||
| Interview with | Aaron Weaver, Matt Tesauro | 15m |
AppSec now covers web, APIs and IoT and focuses on keeping company data private and avoiding breaches; typical staffing is tiny—ops to dev ~2:1 and 100 to 1… | ||
| Interview with | Ariya Hidayat | 03m |
A walkthrough of how bits travel down to the particle level and why undersea fiber backbone and optical links are the core infrastructure, with emphasis on the… | ||
| Interview with | Dan McKinley | 09m |
Argues for preferring proven tools over hype and gives a concrete vetting process: ask what problem we're solving, prove you can do it without new tech, then… | ||
| Interview with | Ilya Grigorik | 14m |
Browsers are becoming app platforms: service worker lets a web app live on the home screen, run offline and receive push notifications and companies like eBay… | ||
| Interview with | Ashish Kuthiala | 08m |
HPE is consolidating a DevOps portfolio that mixes HP products, third‑party and open‑source tools and offers consulting, cloud and software integrations to… | ||
| Explains Ruxit Managed | Alois Reitbauer | 08m |
Ruxit reports 250 customers and adds about one new customer per day, targeting dynamic cloud and container stacks including Docker with Mesos/Marathon as well… | ||
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