Velocity Conference 2017 - New York, New York

Table of contents

1. Keynotes
   1. Unconventional programming paradigms for the future, now - Carin Meier (Cognitect)
   2. Fly the airplane (sponsored by NS1) - Kristopher Beevers (NS1)
   3. The impact of design: How design influences outcomes - Cynthia Savard Saucier (Shopify)
   4. You scream for microservices orchestration; I scream for batch; we all scream for jobs as code (sponsored by BMC Software) - Joe Goldberg (BMC Software)
   5. FTFY: Research advances in automatic bug repair - Claire Le Goues (Carnegie Mellon University)
   6. Government is a system. - Matt Cutts (United States Digital Service (USDS))
   7. Blockchains and cryptocurrencies: New paradigms for shared data - Neha Narula (Digital Currency Initiative)
   8. What if serverless was real? - Nick Rockwell (The New York Times)
   9. Above the line, below the line: A preview of the SNAFUcatchers Stella Report - David Woods (Ohio State University SNAFUcatchers), Richard Cook (Ohio State University SNAFUcatchers)
   10. Automating content delivery in a DevOps world (sponsored by Akamai) - Craig Adams (Akamai Technologies)
   11. The role of open source in a company - Jessica Frazelle (Microsoft), Dino Dai Zovi (Capsule8)
   12. How real is real-user measurement? (sponsored by Catchpoint) - Robert Castley (Catchpoint Systems)
   13. Mentorship and sponsorship - Lara Hogan (Kickstarter)
2. Sponsored
   1. A reference architecture to automate content delivery into your CI/CD workflows (sponsored by Akamai) - Duncan McCallister (Akamai Technologies), Akshay Ranganath (Akamai Technologies)
   2. What's new in Kubernetes 1.8 (sponsored by Google Cloud) - Kelsey Hightower (Google)
   3. Fixing the internet everyday: Internet volatility, the vigilance that fixes it, and why it matters (sponsored by Oracle+Dyn) - David Belson (Oracle+Dyn)
   4. Struts 2, Equifax, and you: The story of the worst breach in history (sponsored by Contrast Security) - Arshan Dabirsiaghi (Contrast Security)
   5. Accelerating cloud applications with Intel FPGAs (sponsored by Intel) - Michal Skiba (Intel Corporation)
   6. FPGA-accelerated data analytics (sponsored by Intel) - Mike Strickland (Intel Corporation)
   7. Scaling up for performance engineers: Practicing what we preach (sponsored by Micro Focus) - Oded Keret (Micro Focus)
3. Distributed Data Databases
   1. Scalable, fluent time series data analysis - Leif Walsh (Two Sigma)
   2. Event sourcing on a global scale: Netflix downloads - Joseph Breuer (Netflix), Robert Reta (Netflix)
   3. Putting your first paper into production - Ben Linsay (Bumpers)
4. Technical Leadership
   1. You're not an architect, and this is not a bridge we're building: Leading technical decision making for high-performing teams - Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Blink Health)
   2. Lessons in interpersonal dynamics from massively multiplayer online games - Margaret Gourlay (VictorOps)
   3. Find your way: Orienteering for managers - VM Brasseur (@vmbrasseur), Deb Nicholson (Open Invention Network)
   4. Pay attention: Why you should care about psychological safety - John Le Drew (Wise Noodles)
5. DevOps Tools
   1. Sysadmins and DevOps and SREs, oh my! - Bryan Liles (Capital One)
   2. Persistent SRE anti-patterns: Pitfalls on the road to creating a successful SRE program like Netflix and Google - Blake Bisset (Independent), Jonah Horowitz (Stripe)
6. Distributed Systems
   1. Building a skyscraper with Legos: The anatomy of a distributed system - Tyler McMullen (Fastly)
   2. Lessons learned from load-testing distributed systems - Jeffrey Valeo (Grubhub)
7. Networking, Traffic, and Edge Management
   1. The Vary header and the future of cache variation at the edge - Andrew Betts (Fastly)
   2. Automated bot squashing: How to build your own bot fighting infrastructure - Felix Glaser (Shopify)
   3. From prototype to mission critical: The evolution of edge architecture at a global DNS service provider - Kristopher Beevers (NS1)
8. Real time, events, streams scale
   1. Drinking from the fire hose: Building a massive-scale monitoring stack - Rob Claire (Pinterest)
9. Monitoring, Tracing and Metrics
   1. Customer-centric observability - Mark McBride (Turbine Labs)
   2. Instrumenting systems for arbitrary observability - Baron Schwartz (VividCortex)
   3. ETW: Monitor anything, anytime, anywhere - Dina Goldshtein (Riverbed)
   4. Fast and safe production monitoring of JVM applications with BPF magic - Sasha Goldshtein (Sela Group)
10. Orchestration, Scheduling, and Containers
    1. Managing applications on Kubernetes with Helm - Michelle Noorali (Microsoft Azure)
    2. Monitoring containers: Follow the data - Ilan Rabinovitch (Datadog)
    3. How do you eat a whale? One byte at a time - Kelly Looney (Skytap)
    4. Your (container) secret's safe with me - Liz Rice (Aqua Security)
    5. Health checking: A not-so-trivial task in the distributed containerized world - Alexander Rukletsov (Mesosphere)
11. Resilience Engineering
    1. The rise of polyglot programming at Netflix - Mike McGarr (Netflix)
    2. The phone book is on fire: Lessons from the Dyn DNS DDoS attack - Lex Neva (Heroku)
    3. What happens when technology and government mix? - Matt Cutts (United States Digital Service (USDS))
12. Hardware, Storage, and Datacenters
    1. Managing server secrets at scale with a vaultless password manager - Ignat Korchagin (Cloudflare)
    2. How Shutterfly migrated 10+ billion photos to the cloud - Jack Chan (Shutterfly)
    3. Best practices in data migrations - Andrew Fong (Dropbox)
    4. FPGAs in the cloud? - Julien SIMON (AWS)
13. Tutorials
    1. Microservices secrets management with Vault - Seth Vargo (HashiCorp) - Part 1
    2. Microservices secrets management with Vault - Seth Vargo (HashiCorp) - Part 2
    3. Microservices secrets management with Vault - Seth Vargo (HashiCorp) - Part 3
    4. Microservices secrets management with Vault - Seth Vargo (HashiCorp) - Part 4
    5. From zero to distributed traces: An OpenTracing tutorial - Bryan Liles (Capital One), Yuri Shkuro (Uber), Won Jun Jang (Uber), Prithvi Raj (Uber) - Part 1
    6. From zero to distributed traces: An OpenTracing tutorial - Bryan Liles (Capital One), Yuri Shkuro (Uber), Won Jun Jang (Uber), Prithvi Raj (Uber) - Part 2
    7. Docker production: Orchestration, security, and beyond - Bret Fisher (Independent Consultant), Shawn Bower (Cornell University), Jesse White (Contino) - Part 1
    8. Docker production: Orchestration, security, and beyond - Bret Fisher (Independent Consultant), Shawn Bower (Cornell University), Jesse White (Contino) - Part 2
    9. Docker production: Orchestration, security, and beyond - Bret Fisher (Independent Consultant), Shawn Bower (Cornell University), Jesse White (Contino) - Part 3
    10. Docker production: Orchestration, security, and beyond - Bret Fisher (Independent Consultant), Shawn Bower (Cornell University), Jesse White (Contino) - Part 4
    11. Creating pipelines to build, test, and deploy containerized artifacts - Tom Adams (ThoughtWorks) - Part 1
    12. Creating pipelines to build, test, and deploy containerized artifacts - Tom Adams (ThoughtWorks) - Part 2
    13. A hands-on data science crash course for modeling and predicting the behavior of (large) distributed systems - Bart De Vylder (CoScale), Pieter Buteneers (CoScale) - Part 1
    14. A hands-on data science crash course for modeling and predicting the behavior of (large) distributed systems - Bart De Vylder (CoScale), Pieter Buteneers (CoScale) - Part 2
    15. HTTP/2 development: A hands-on approach - Frederik Deweerdt (Fastly) - Part 1
    16. HTTP/2 development: A hands-on approach - Frederik Deweerdt (Fastly) - Part 2
    17. HTTP/2 development: A hands-on approach - Frederik Deweerdt (Fastly) - Part 3
    18. Developing resilient microservices with Kubernetes and Envoy - Phil Lombardi (Datawire), Rafael Schloming (Datawire), Richard Li (Datawire) - Part 1
    19. Developing resilient microservices with Kubernetes and Envoy - Phil Lombardi (Datawire), Rafael Schloming (Datawire), Richard Li (Datawire) - Part 2
    20. Developing resilient microservices with Kubernetes and Envoy - Phil Lombardi (Datawire), Rafael Schloming (Datawire), Richard Li (Datawire) - Part 3
    21. Linux performance monitoring with BPF - Sasha Goldshtein (Sela Group) - Part 1
    22. Linux performance monitoring with BPF - Sasha Goldshtein (Sela Group) - Part 2
    23. Linux performance monitoring with BPF - Sasha Goldshtein (Sela Group) - Part 3
14. Multiple Topics
    1. Distributed systems patterns: From design to reality - Brendan Burns (Microsoft)
    2. The art of the possible - Jon Moore (Comcast Cable)
    3. Systems management with a voice UI using Amazon Alexa - Karthik Kirupanithi (Amazon Web Services)
    4. How Twitter built a framework to improve infrastructure utilization and efficiency at scale - Vinu Charanya (Twitter)
    5. Serverless security: What's left to protect? - Guy Podjarny (Snyk)
    6. Genji: A programming model for building resilient near-real-time data pipelines - Swaminathan Sundaramurthy (Pinterest), Mark Cho (Pinterest)
    7. Scaling the machine learning systems powering Quora's home feed - Nikhil Garg (Quora), Neeraj Agrawal (Quora)
    8. Operating microservices: Everything is at scale. - Sarah Wells (Financial Times)
    9. Load balancing, consistent hashing, and locality - Andrew Rodland (Vimeo)
    10. Automation run rampant - Kate Deutscher (GreenSync)
    11. Four things I wish I'd known sooner about persistent memory - Rob Dickinson (Intel)
    12. Running a massively parallel stream processing system at Netflix - Zhenzhong Xu (Netflix)
    13. How LinkedIn determines the capacity limits of its services using live traffic - Susie Xia (LinkedIn), Anant Rao (LinkedIn)
    14. Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? - Tanya Reilly (Google)
    15. What we talk about when we talk about on-disk storage - Alex Petrov (DataStax)
    16. Developing scale-agnostic distributed systems with entities - Andrew Turley (Wallaroo Labs)
    17. Managing grumpy to build stronger teams - Lisa Phillips (Fastly)
    18. Thriving under a continuous self-inflicted DDoS attack - Kevin Beck (New Relic)