When wicked fast still isn’t fast enough
No matter how fast and available your site is, there’s a constant demand to make it run even faster, all of the time. How do you keep up? With this complete video compilation of O’Reilly’s Velocity 2014 Conference, you’ll learn how the latest tools, skills, and ideas in web performance and operations can help get up to speed. You’ll get a front row seat to every keynote, …
When wicked fast still isn’t fast enough
No matter how fast and available your site is, there’s a constant demand to make it run even faster, all of the time. How do you keep up? With this complete video compilation of O’Reilly’s Velocity 2014 Conference, you’ll learn how the latest tools, skills, and ideas in web performance and operations can help get up to speed. You’ll get a front row seat to every keynote, workshop, session, and lightning demo in this year’s conference.
Download these videos or view them through our HD player, and learn what works (and what doesn’t) in real world web applications. More than 130 speakers, including Guy Podjarny (Akamai), Stoyan Stefanov (Facebook), Sarah Novotny (NGINX), and Jeff Dean (Google) offer different pieces of the puzzle.
Tracks at Velocity 2014 focused on:
Keynotes
Achieving Rapid Response Times in Large Online Services - Jeff Dean
Lowering the Barrier to Programming - Pamela Fox
Building on a Bedrock of Failure - Rodney Mullen
Responsive Web Performance in the Wild - Mark Zeman
Virtual Machines, JavaScript and Assembler - Scott Hanselman
Test Driven Mobile Development with Appium, Just Like Selenium - Jonah Stiennon
Mobile Web is Not (Just) a Technical Challenge - Lara Swanson
Thursday Lightning Demos - Kent Alstad, Peter Hedenskog, and Eric Lawrence
Mobile
Extreme Web Performance for Mobile Devices - Maximiliano Firtman - Part 1
Extreme Web Performance for Mobile Devices - Maximiliano Firtman - Part 2
Debugging and Tuning Mobile Web Sites with Modern Web Browsers - Troy Miles - Part 1
Debugging and Tuning Mobile Web Sites with Modern Web Browsers - Troy Miles - Part 2
Building a Device Lab - Lara Swanson and Destiny Montague - Part 1
Building a Device Lab - Lara Swanson and Destiny Montague - Part 2
Mobile Performance: All Questions Answered - Lyza Gardner, Tammy Everts, Guy Podjarny, and Lara Swanson - Part 1
Mobile Performance: All Questions Answered - Lyza Gardner, Tammy Everts, Guy Podjarny, and Lara Swanson - Part 2
Using Hypermedia APIs to Drive Interactive Mobile Applications - Benjamin Greenberg
Mobile Web Stress: Understanding the Neurological Impact of Poor Performance - Tammy Everts
How YouTube Performance is Improved in T-Mobile Network - Jie Hui, Kevin Lau, Ankur Jain, Andreas Terzis, and Jeff Smith
What Makes Mobile Websites Tick? How Do We Make Them Faster? Insights from WebPagetest and HTTPArchive - Doug Sillars and Andy D
The Natives are Getting Restless: A Survey of Native RUM Solutions - Buddy Brewer and Cliff Crocker
UA Strings Are Terrible: Adventures in Server-side Device Characterization for Site Performance - Alec Heller
Scale and Adapt - How We Built Responsive BBC News - John Cleveley
Testing Your Mobile App for Real-World Network Conditions - Doug Sillars and Jennifer Leong
Responding to RWD A Case Study of Managing Change within the Enterprise - Nicole Harris and Brian Greene
Delivering Optimal Images for Phones and Tablets on the Modern Web - Joshua Marantz
Smooth Animation on Mobile Web: From Kinetic Scrolling to Cover Flow Effect - Ariya Hidayat
Making Web Fonts Fast(er) - Ilya Grigorik
Performance
WebPagetest Power Users - Patrick Meenan - Part 1
WebPagetest Power Users - Patrick Meenan - Part 2
Advanced Image Compression Techniques - Tobias Baldauf - Part 1
Advanced Image Compression Techniques - Tobias Baldauf - Part 2
RUM: Getting Beyond Page Level Metrics - Buddy Brewer and Philip Tellis - Part 1
RUM: Getting Beyond Page Level Metrics - Buddy Brewer and Philip Tellis - Part 2
Browser Performance Tools - Paul Irish - Part 1
Browser Performance Tools - Nick Fitzgerald - Part 2
Browser Performance Tools - Tobin Titus - Part 3
Third Party Performance: Don’t Let Others Get You Down - Guy Podjarny
Upgrading the Web - Driving Support For New Standards - Jonathan Klein
GPU and Web UI Performance: Building an Endless 60fps Scroller - Diego Ferreiro
Look, Ma, No Image Requests! - Pamela Fox
Making Frontend Performance Testing a Part of Continuous Integration - PerfJankie - Parashuram Narasimhan
Lessons Learned from Building a CSS Minifier - Stoyan Stefanov
Performance and Maintainability with Continous Experimentation - Seth Walker
Making YouTube Fast - Rick Viscomi, Alex Nicksay, and Steven Robertson
Speed Kills: When Faster Pages Mean Less Revenue - Eddie Canales
Is TLS Fast Yet? - Ilya Grigorik
Assembly at the Edge - Gamaiel Zavala and Pushkar Sachdeva
Chasing Waterfalls - Resource Timing Data in the Wild - Mike McCall and Mark Holland
Operations
Battle-tested Code Without the Battle - Security Testing and Continuous Integration - James Wickett and Gareth Rushgrove - Part
Battle-tested Code Without the Battle - Security Testing and Continuous Integration - James Wickett and Gareth Rushgrove - Part
Introduction to Docker: Containerization Is the New Virtualization - James Turnbull - Part 1
Introduction to Docker: Containerization Is the New Virtualization - James Turnbull - Part 2
Monitoring with Ganglia - Vladimir Vuksan - Part 1
Monitoring with Ganglia - Vladimir Vuksan - Part 2
The Practical Gamemaster: Design and Execution of IT Emergency Operations Drills - Adele Shakal - Part 1
The Practical Gamemaster: Design and Execution of IT Emergency Operations Drills - Adele Shakal - Part 2
Source of Truth: Using Open Source Tools to Manage and Monitor Large Deployments in Multiple Datacenters - Dale Hamel - Part 1
Source of Truth: Using Open Source Tools to Manage and Monitor Large Deployments in Multiple Datacenters - Dale Hamel - Part 2
Understanding Slowness - Theo Schlossnagle
Smoke Alarms, Car Alarms, and Monitoring - Dan Slimmon
A Look at Looking in the Mirror: PostMortems - J. Paul Reed
Mean Time to Sleep: Quantifying the On-Call Experience - Ryan Frantz and Laurie Denness
How to be Great at Operations - Adam Jacob
Some Simple Math to get Some Signal out of Your Ops Data Noise - Toufic Boubez
Days in Green (DIG): Forecasting the Life of a Healthy Service @Twitter - Vibhav Garg and Arun Kejariwal
Were Not Ready for the Internet of Things: How Current Technology Must Adapt First - Bryan Cantrill
Instagration - Mike Krieger
Self-Repairing Deployment Pipelines: What We Ought to Mean by Distributed Orchestration - Mark Burgess
5 Things You Didn’t Know NGINX Could Do - Sarah Novotny
Human Confirmation Bias in Monitoring of Systems - Chris Baker
Culture and Organizational Change
How Did Your Organizational Learning Game Come Up? - Andrew Shafer - Part 1
How Did Your Organizational Learning Game Come Up? - Andrew Shafer - Part 2
How Did Your Organizational Learning Game Come Up? - Andrew Shafer - Part 3
Making Your Dream a Reality: Raising Money for Your Web Operations or Web Performance Idea - Kyle Redinger - Part 1
Making Your Dream a Reality: Raising Money for Your Web Operations or Web Performance Idea - Kyle Redinger - Part 2
Growing the Site Reliability Team at LinkedIn: Hiring is Hard - Greg Leffler
Minimum Viable Bureaucracy - Laura Thomson
Kicking Down Silos for Fun and Profit - Katherine Daniels
From Hero to Zero - Jennifer Davis
Encouraging Girls in IT: A How-To Guide - Doug Ireton and Jane Ireton
DevOps Means Business - Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Nigel Kersten, and Nicole Forsgren Velasquez
Case Study: How Shifting to a DevOps Culture Enabled Performance and Capacity Improvements - Greg Burton and Ori Rawlings
Living with OCD - Seth Vargo
Operational Costs of Technical Debt - Kurt Andersen
The W’s of Diversity: An Exploration of Systemic Problems in Technology - Julia Ferraioli
Sponsored Sessions
Chef Hack - Nathen Harvey
Performance In Context Is Good Good Enough? - Ben Rushlo
Exponential Load Testing: Multiply the Power, Multiply the Results - Saurabh Bajaj
How to Adapt and Innovate for 2018 - Cheryl Ainoa
Make Your Data Talk: Analytic Techniques for Identifying Hidden Performance Issues - Steve Fox and Rob Dickinson
Dynamic User Experiences for Mobile - Desiree Gosby
Caching the Uncacheable: Leveraging Your CDN to Cache Dynamic Content - Hooman Beheshti
Get Responsive Website Performance with a Dual Sided Architecture - Peter Blum and Mehrdad Reshadi
DevOps by Design, or How APIs and Cats are Both Awesome - Stephen Fishman, Robert Tanzola, and Abelardo Gonzalez
Dont Sell it Short. How to Maximize Load Testing Capacity, Control, and Analysis - Matt Rodriguez
Why Application Delivery Belongs in the Cloud - Marc Gaffan
The Continuous Delivery Tool Chain: So Many Choices! - Mark Sigler
Why You Can’t Buy DevOps in a Box - John Martin and Dustin Whittle
Measurement Maturity Model - Rob Peters
Leveraging a Cloud Architecture for Fun, Ease, and Profit! - Phil Jackson
Top 10 Lessons Learned Building PageSpeed and trying to Make The Web Fast - Joshua Marantz
Web Performance, Why it Really Matters - Hala Al-Adwan
Responsive and Fast Pseudo Book Reading: A Tale of Mobile Waiting - Guy Podjarny
Software Analytics for Performance Nerds - Patrick Lightbody
Building Self-Adaptive Autonomous Infrastructure with an Advanced Monitoring Architecture - James Colgan
A 5 Minute Checklist for Application Monitoring - Ernest Mueller
Accelerate Your User Experience with Client-side JavaScript - Joe Wells
Content Acceleration Beyond Caching, Understanding Dynamic Content - John McIlwain
Making the Web POSH - Jan-Willem Maessen
Mobilizing Your Website: Performance and Protection in a More Mobile World - Doug McCausland
EdgeCast/Verizon’s Ghostfish: How to Replay Production Traffic in Real-time - Amir Khakpour
Cracking the Code on Big Data with CA APM - Matt LeRay and Anand Akela
Look inside the Dropbox - Andrew Fong
Pub Side Chat: Beers and DNS - Using our Old Friend DNS to fix Security and Performance Problems - Sean Leach