How did Twitter turn hundreds of services, tens of thousands of machines, and millions of requests per second into a unified, performant application? How does Instagram test and deploy code to a fleet of thousands of web servers in as little as 10 minutes forty times per day? How did GameStop migrate 12 ecommerce websites with millions of users from dedicated hardware to the cloud in three months? These are just a few of …
How did Twitter turn hundreds of services, tens of thousands of machines, and millions of requests per second into a unified, performant application? How does Instagram test and deploy code to a fleet of thousands of web servers in as little as 10 minutes forty times per day? How did GameStop migrate 12 ecommerce websites with millions of users from dedicated hardware to the cloud in three months? These are just a few of the stories told by 97 industry experts at the four intense days devoted to web operations, performance, and DevOps known as Velocity New York 2016. Want to see how Uber, Etsy, Netflix, HPE, Pivotal, Tumblr, SOASTA, Catchpoint, and more do it? Get this video compilation and you’ll enjoy watch-when-you-want access to each of the conference’s 10 tutorials (3.5 hours each), 50 sessions (40 minutes each), and 18 keynotes.
Velocity NY Keynotes
Don’t gamble when it comes to reliability - Tom Croucher (Uber)
DevOps, collaboration, and globally distributed teams - Ashish Kuthiala (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
Serverless is other people - Rachel Chalmers (Unitive)
We need a bigger goal than collecting data - Mehdi Daoudi (Catchpoint)
Situation normal: All fouled up - Richard Cook (Ohio State University SNAFUcatchers) and David Woods (Ohio State University SNAFUcatchers)
Data science: Next-gen performance analytics - Ken Gardner (SOASTA)
Two years in the US Digital Service - Mikey Dickerson (Federal Government | United States Digital Services Team)
Building bridges with DevOps - Katherine Daniels (Etsy)
Make performance data (and beyond) accessible - Alois Reitbauer (Dynatrace)
Web versus apps revisited - Ben Galbraith (Google) and Dion Almaer (Google)
Turning data into leverage - Ozan Turgut (SignalFx)
Is ad blocking good for advertisers? - Tony Ralph (Netflix)
Transforming how the world operates software - Andrew Shafer (Pivotal)
Security at the speed of innovation: Defensive development for a fast-paced world - Kelly Lum (Tumblr)
Infrastructure reimagined
Deployment and orchestration at scale with Docker - Jérôme Petazzoni (Docker) - Part 1
Deployment and orchestration at scale with Docker - Jérôme Petazzoni (Docker) - Part 2
Deployment and orchestration at scale with Docker - Jérôme Petazzoni (Docker) - Part 3
Deployment and orchestration at scale with Docker - Jérôme Petazzoni (Docker) - Part 4
Highly efficient container orchestration and continuous delivery with DC/OS and Jenkins - Roger Ignazio (Mesosphere) and Sunil Shah (Mesosphere) - Part 1
Highly efficient container orchestration and continuous delivery with DC/OS and Jenkins - Roger Ignazio (Mesosphere) and Sunil Shah (Mesosphere) - Part 2
Designing large-scale distributed systems - Andrea Spadaccini (Google)
Infrastructure as code might be literally impossible - Joe Damato (packagecloud.io)
Mitigating sprawl with microservices and containerization - Susan Fowler (Uber )
HTTP/2: What no one is telling you - Hooman Beheshti (Fastly)
A dystopian look at immutable infrastructure and other cloud security lies - Sam Bisbee (Threat Stack)
High-performance servers: Lessons from the real world - Samy Al Bahra (Backtrace I/O)
Load balancing at SoundCloud: A practical history - Matthias Rampke (SoundCloud LTD.)
The once and future layer 5: Resilient, Twitter-style microservices - Oliver Gould (Buoyant, Inc.)
Dropbox database infrastructure - Tammy Butow (Dropbox)
The inbetweeners: Cloud migration causing transformation - Rob Burke (GameStop, Inc.)
Implementing infrastructure as code - Kief Morris (ThoughtWorks)
Measuring the right things
Measuring real-user performance in the browser - Nic Jansma (SOASTA) and Philip Tellis (SOASTA) - Part 1
Measuring real-user performance in the browser - Nic Jansma (SOASTA) and Philip Tellis (SOASTA) - Part 2
Measuring real-user performance in the browser - Nic Jansma (SOASTA) and Philip Tellis (SOASTA) - Part 3
Measuring real-user performance in the browser - Nic Jansma (SOASTA) and Philip Tellis (SOASTA) - Part 4
Distributed tracing: How to do latency analysis for microservices-based applications - Reshmi Krishna (Pivotal)
I data scienced monitoring data, and so can you - Rob Claire (Pinterest)
The modern Linux tracing landscape - Sasha Goldshtein (Sela Group)
Using Chrome traces to measure rendering performance of web pages and mobile apps - Parashuram Narasimhan (Microsoft)
Anomaly detection at scale: How Uber continuously monitors 500 local businesses - Michael Hamrah (Uber) and Akshay Shah (Uber)
Performance for the people
Service workers and push notifications for web performance - Maximiliano Firtman (ITMaster Professional Training) - Part 1
Service workers and push notifications for web performance - Maximiliano Firtman (ITMaster Professional Training) - Part 2
Service workers and push notifications for web performance - Maximiliano Firtman (ITMaster Professional Training) - Part 3
Service workers and push notifications for web performance - Maximiliano Firtman (ITMaster Professional Training) - Part 4
High-performance images: Choose your own adventure - Colin Bendell (Akamai) - Part 1
High-performance images: Choose your own adventure - Colin Bendell (Akamai) - Part 2
High-performance images: Choose your own adventure - Colin Bendell (Akamai) - Part 3
High-performance images: Choose your own adventure - Colin Bendell (Akamai) - Part 4
The future of the mobile Web - Pete LePage (Google)
How Ancestry shifted to user-centered performance metrics - Jed Wood (Ancestry)
Making single-page applications faster - Manuel Alvarez (Akamai Technologies) and Boris Livshutz (Akamai Technologies)
The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project: What lies ahead? - Malte Ubl (Google)
Too hot to handle: Optimizing for low-powered devices - Simon Hearne (NCC Group)
Delivering fast and rich web user experiences - Mark Zeman (SpeedCurve)
How GoDaddy radically improved web performance and increased customer engagement - Jim Pierson (GoDaddy)
Using machine learning to determine drivers of bounce and conversion - Tammy Everts (SOASTA) and Patrick Meenan (Google)
Security and performance: Breaking the conundrum. . .again - Sonia Burney (Akamai) and Sabrina Burney (Akamai)
AMP: Does it really make your site faster? - Nigel Heron (SOASTA) and Nic Jansma (SOASTA)
Sponsored tutorials sessions
Application performance monitoring concepts: How to troubleshoot your applications in production - Amichai Nitsan (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
Performance testing workshop - Gaspare Marino (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) - Part 1
Performance testing workshop - Gaspare Marino (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) - Part 2
Connecting analytics to actions - Buddy Brewer (SOASTA)
How HPE used transaction tracing tools to identify and fix an application’s performance problems: A real-world case study - Amichai Nitsan (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
Drowning in data, thirsting for insight: How IT leaders can break out of the loop - Mehdi Daoudi (Catchpoint)
Automating your cloud service stack for speed and reliability - Michael Sage (Fugue)
DevOps
Continuous deployment to millions of users 40 times a day - Michael Gorven (Facebook/Instagram)
Scaling Shopify’s multitenant architecture across multiple data centers - Florian Weingarten (Shopify)
HTTPS: Why and how to make the switch - Guy Podjarny (Snyk)
Running Consul at scale: Service discovery in the cloud - Darron Froese (Datadog Inc.)
Principles of globally distributed systems - Tyler McMullen (Fastly)
Operational excellence with Netflix Hystrix - Billy Yuen (Intuit, Inc.)
Managing serverless: Ops for NoOps - Eric Windisch (IOpipe)
It’s the people, stupid - Jan Schaumann (The Internet)
Containers: How they add to a proven cloud-native architecture - Mike McGarr (Netflix) and Andrew Spyker (Netflix)
It’s time: What to do when rebuilding your infrastructure - Yvette Pasqua (Meetup)
Financial systems
How to scale reliability, performance, and productivity in financial services - Hamed Silatani (IG)
Is capacity management still needed in the public cloud? - Kevin McLaughlin (Capital One)
Securing application deployments in CI/CD environments - Binu Ramakrishnan (Yahoo)
Coping with complexity - Richard Cook (Ohio State University SNAFUcatchers), David Woods (Ohio State University SNAFUcatchers), John Allspaw (Etsy), Zoran Perkov (IEX Group), David Leigh (IBM), and E. Asher Balkin (Ohio State University)
Organizational optimization
DevOps: Who does what? - Cornelia Davis (Pivotal)
Teaching DevOps to ops without devs, and so can you! - Tom Limoncelli (StackOverflow.com)
Building inclusive communities and empowerment in tech: Like riding a bicycle - Casey Ashenhurst (Stack Overflow)
Must be willing to relocate: Not anymore - Michael Stahnke (Puppet Labs)
Ops in the time of serverless containerized webscale - Timothy Gross (Joyent), Bridget Kromhout (Pivotal), Charity Majors (Honeycomb), and John Vincent (MailChimp)