Velocity Conference Santa Clara 2014
2014-06-24..2014-06-26
Santa Clara, United States
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Virtual Machines, JavaScript and Assembler | Scott Hanselman | 22m |
Argues that JavaScript now behaves like an operating system virtual machine and shows real artifacts: Linux compiled to JS running an x86 emulator, a working… | ||
| Achieving Rapid Response Times in Large Online Services | Jeff Dean | 28m |
Describes concrete techniques that pull down 99th/99.9th-percentile latency in shared clusters: fine-grained partitioning (typically 10–100 pieces per… | ||
| Lowering the Barrier to Programming | Pamela Fox | 10m |
Khan Academy offers realtime interactive JavaScript with Processing.js so learners can code in a browser without local setup, addressing students stuck on… | ||
| Build on a Bedrock of Failure | Rodney Mullen | 13m |
Argues that deliberate exposure to repeated failure forges better risk judgment and recovery skills, supported by skate session footage showing… | ||
| Mark Zeman Lightning Demo Keynote - Velocity Santa Clara 2014 | Mark Zeman | 11m |
SpeedCurve runs WebPageTest on 250 sites across 17 viewports to measure responsive asset changes and finds worrying specifics: the 320px viewport is only 18%… | ||
| Jonah Stiennon Lightning Demo Keynote - Velocity Santa Clara 2014 | Jonah Stiennon | 07m |
Demo shows Appium as an HTTP server that sends JSON Wire Protocol commands to real and simulated devices, reusing native Apple/Google automation so the same… | ||
| Mobile Web at Etsy | Lara Swanson | 17m |
Etsy has >50% traffic from mobile and tries to move from a siloed 2011 mobile-web team that used user agent sniffing and separate templates to a culture where… | ||
| Thursday Lightning Demo Keynotes | Kent Alstad | 21m |
Three demos show concrete pipelines and measurable wins: a node.js wrapper on WebPagetest that spins Amazon AMIs, runs 30 tests vs 30 tests per build and flags… | ||
| Performance In Context | Ben Rushlo | 12m |
Argues that “good” performance means hitting business outcomes not just shaving milliseconds, and shows practical ways to do that: synthetic monitoring and RUM… | ||
| Exponential Load Testing... | Saurabh Bajaj | 12m |
Argues that moving from single-cloud to a multi‑cloud load testing platform produces clearer, more reliable results by generating traffic from AWS, Rackspace… | ||
| How to Adapt and Innovate for 2018 | Cheryl Ainoa | 10m |
Argues that every four years a new platform disrupts incumbents, citing PCs, web, social and mobile, and warns 2018 will bring something comparably momentous… | ||
| Top 10 Lessons Learned Building PageSpeed... | Joshua Marantz | 06m |
PageSpeed Insights and mod_pagespeed are shown working: server module auto-applies gzip, image recompression and URL signing so assets can be cached for a year… | ||
| Web Performance, Why it Really Matters | Hala Al-Adwan | 05m |
66% of internet traffic was IP video in 2013 and is projected to hit 79% by 2018 with CDNs carrying over half of video traffic, so the team converts expected… | ||
| Responsive & Fast Book Reading | Guy Podjarny | 06m |
A live book-reading style demo argues that slow mobile sites create real-world “waiting” moments (maps, reviews, ads) and shows fixes with concrete tools… | ||
| Software Analytics for Performance Nerds | Patrick Lightbody | 05m |
Traditional performance tuning that chases a 5% win often misses the customers who matter most so New Relic builds Insights, a database that queries over… | ||
| Building Self-Adaptive Autonomous Infrastructure | James Colgan | 05m |
Argues that web performance requires a closed feedback loop that collects real-time metrics, stores them in a scalable datastore, runs data‑science models and… | ||
| A 5 Minute Checklist for Application Monitoring | Ernest Mueller | 05m |
Advocates a lean, minimum viable monitoring approach: start with a global synthetic probe that verifies end‑user service availability, add actionable component… | ||
| Interview | James Turnbull | 08m |
Containers remove the hypervisor and run as OS‑level virtualization, making them very lightweight and allowing roughly 10x more instances per server; Google… | ||
| Interview | James Wickett, Gareth Rushgrove | 07m |
Teams explain how to move security into the delivery pipeline by adding fast, automated checks early, for example dependency scans against known CVE lists… | ||
| Interview | John Allspaw | 30m |
From the 2014 Velocity Conference in Santa Clara, CA: John Allspaw, conference co-chair and VP of Tech Operations for Etsy, sits down to discuss the guidelines… | ||
| Interview | J. Paul Reed | 16m |
Argues that productive post-mortems require separate facts from judgment rather than hunting a single root cause, citing aviation research that lists 191 root… | ||
| Interview | Sebastian Tiedtke | 07m |
A hosted testing platform integrates Selenium test suites with CI, adds mobile support via Appium on emulators, simulators and a coming real-device farm, and… | ||
| Interview | Tal Broda | 09m |
SOASTA explains a platform of three products—CloudTest for large-scale load testing, TouchTest for recording mobile functional tests without code, and… | ||
| Interview | Cheryl Ainoa | 10m |
Intuit builds an internal open source model so any engineer worldwide can assemble services in minutes, reusing a world's best tax software engine across teams… | ||
| Interview | Joe Loveless | 08m |
Neustar frames performance theft as lost revenue and quantifies it at about $1,600–$5,600 per minute, argues teams across dev, ops and marketing must be… | ||
| Interview | Ben Rushlo | 10m |
Keynote is turning millions of synthetic measurements a day into actionable analytics by building an analytics platform that generates a Health Report score… | ||
| Interview | Gene Kim | 05m |
The 2014 State of DevOps Report analyzes responses from over 14,000 organizations and shows high performers deploy code 30x more frequently, achieve production… | ||
| Interview | Rodney Mullen | 15m |
Skateboarding is framed as art and philosophy not a sport, with value placed on personal expression over contest rankings, and video parts that can take years… | ||
| Interview | Geir Magnusson | 03m |
AppNexus describes itself as the largest independent real‑time ad marketplace and relies on Aerospike to meet hard persistence and latency needs using SSDs… | ||
| Interview | Brian Bulkowski | 05m |
A key-value database claiming to be the fastest NoSQL engine, built as a clustered, high‑availability system that runs on commodity servers and supports both… | ||
| Interview | Mark Burgess | 19m |
Develops promise as an atom of policy to model distributed systems and CFEngine behavior, claiming promises are voluntary, non‑guaranteed commitments that… | ||
| Interview | Fred Simon | 03m |
Company builds a binary repository manager and related tools that treat artifacts like versioned objects, claiming Artifactory installed 20,000 times and a… | ||
| Interview | Kyle Gentry | 03m |
Instart Logic positions itself as an alternative to CDNs by shipping a software-defined application delivery layer that uses virtualization extending to the… | ||
| Interview | Rob Peters | 07m |
EdgeCast explains how the CDN focuses on practical fixes: building an end‑to‑end delivery platform around a core HTTP cache/proxy engine, absorbing Verizon… | ||
| Encouraging Girls in IT: A How To Guide | Doug Ireton, Jane Ireton | 31m |
Conference cites 1.4 million U.S. computing openings (2010–2020) but only ~30% can be filled by U.S. grads; women hold 25% of IT jobs (down from 36% in 1991)… | ||
| Velocity 2014 | 02m | |
Describes how a real production site scales its infrastructure to handle a billion users by redesigning request routing and load shedding, including the load… | ||
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