Velocity Conference New York 2013: Video Compilation

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Tap into the best of Velocity 2013—right where you live

If you want answers for specific web ops issues, this complete video compilation provides an intimate view of every keynote, session, and workshop from O’Reilly’s Velocity 2013 Conference in New York. You’ll discover the latest tools, skills, and ideas from experts such as Steve Souders (Google), Mandi Walls (Opscode), Jeremy Edberg (Netflix), Richard Cook (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm), and a host of others.

Download these videos or stream them through our HD player, and keep pace with the changing speed of the Web. Get immersive tracks in web performance, operations, mobile performance, and Velocity culture—and learn what’s worked—and what hasn’t—in real world web applications.

Here are just a few of the sessions you’ll receive in this video package:

Web Performance:

  • Latest Proposals from the W3C Performance Working Group—Philippe Le Hegaret (W3C)
  • Prebrowsing: What if your browser anticipated what you wanted before you asked for it?—Steve Souders (Google)
  • Lightning Demo of Appurify & WebPageTest Integration—Guy Podjarny (Akamai)

Operations:

  • What Should I Monitor, And How Should I Do It?—Baron Schwartz (VividCortex Inc)
  • Using Amazon Web Services for MySQL at Scale—Laine Campbell (PalominoDB)
  • The Dark Art of Building a Production Incident System—Alois Reitbauer (Compuware APM Division)

Mobile Performance:

  • Building a Performance Lab for Mobile Apps in a Day—Susie Xia, Venkatesh Katari, and Ashray Mathur (Salesforce.com Inc)
  • Responsive Images and Video—Jason Grigsby (Cloud Four)
  • How Not to Do HTTP in Mobile Apps—Sajal Kayan and Aaron Peters (Turbobytes)

Table of contents

  1. Keynotes
    1. Keynote - Fred Wilson
    2. Analyzing Transaction Performance with KITE and MITE - Gene Morris
    3. Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems: Operating At The Edge Of Failure - Richard Cook
    4. Beyond Averages - Dan Kuebrich
    5. Update From The W3C Performance Working Group - Philippe Le Hegaret
    6. Lightning Demo of HttpWatch Mobile App - Simon Perkins
    7. Lightning Demo : Memory profiling with Chrome Dev Tools - Colt McAnlis
    8. Velocity: What's Next? - Courtney Nash
    9. Delivering Security: Faster, Better, Cheaper - Zane Lackey and Dan Kaminsky
    10. Lightning Demo of Appurify and WebPageTest Integration - Guy Podjarny
    11. Lightning Demo: Benchmarking Browsers' Network Stack Performance - Dany Rybnikov
    12. Lightning Demo: WebPagetest - Patrick Meenan
    13. Solving Major Problems in The Minors - Mike O'Dea and William Zurat
    14. AWS or Dedicated Hardware? - Cuong Do
    15. Following The Numbers To Stay On Top Of The Performance Game - Rob Peters
    16. Closing Keynote - Courtney Nash, John Allspaw, and Steve Souders
  2. Tutorials
    1. The Interruptive Nature Of Operations: A World Of Squirrels And Shiny Objects - Avleen Vig and Carolyn Rowland - Part 1
    2. The Interruptive Nature Of Operations: A World Of Squirrels And Shiny Objects - Avleen Vig and Carolyn Rowland - Part 2
    3. What Your Browser Does When You Aren't Looking - Jake Archibald - Part 1
    4. What Your Browser Does When You Aren't Looking - Jake Archibald - Part 2
    5. Sense and Sensu-bility: Painless Metrics And Monitoring In The Cloud with Sensu - Bethany Erskine
    6. Using Amazon Web Services for MySQL at Scale - Laine Campbell - Part 1
    7. Using Amazon Web Services for MySQL at Scale - Laine Campbell - Part 2
    8. Tracking Performance - Patrick Meenan - Part 1
    9. Tracking Performance - Patrick Meenan - Part 2
    10. How Netflix Operates Multi-Region Clouds for Maximum Freedom and Agility - Jeremy Edberg - Part 1
    11. How Netflix Operates Multi-Region Clouds for Maximum Freedom and Agility - Jeremy Edberg - Part 2
    12. Tuning Network Performance to Eleven - Ilya Grigorik - Part 1
    13. Tuning Network Performance to Eleven - Ilya Grigorik - Part 2
    14. Responsive Responsive Design - Tim Kadlec - Part 1
    15. Responsive Responsive Design - Tim Kadlec - Part 2
    16. Building a Performance Lab for Mobile Apps in a Day - Susie Xia, Venkatesh Katari, and Ashray Mathur - Part 1
    17. Building a Performance Lab for Mobile Apps in a Day - Susie Xia, Venkatesh Katari, and Ashray Mathur - Part 2
    18. Hands-on Web Performance Optimization Workshop - Sergey Chernyshev and Andy Davies - Part 1
    19. Hands-on Web Performance Optimization Workshop - Sergey Chernyshev and Andy Davies - Part 2
    20. What Should I Monitor, And How Should I Do It? - Baron Schwartz - Part 1
    21. What Should I Monitor, And How Should I Do It? - Baron Schwartz - Part 2
    22. At Your Service: Using Jenkins in Operations - Mandi Walls - Part 1
    23. At Your Service: Using Jenkins in Operations - Mandi Walls - Part 2
  3. Sessions
    1. Rendering Without Lumpy Bits - Jake Archibald
    2. Latency Is The Mind Killer - Artur Bergman
    3. How We Survived Hurricane Sandy: A Look At What Not To Do - Mike Zaic and Dan White
    4. Looking Beyond Page Load Times - How a relentless focus on Task Completion Times can benefit your users - Kiran Badam
    5. Stylesheet Wrangling with SCSS - Sarah Forst
    6. Alerting: More Signal, Less Noise, Less Pain - Alexis Le-Quoc
    7. Understanding Distributed Data Storage - Eric Redmond
    8. Scaling People Not Machines - Andrew Fong
    9. Your Stuff, Anywhere, Instantly - Ziga Mahkovec
    10. Going Beyond onload - How Fast Does It Feel? - Patrick Meenan, Chao (Ray) Feng, and Mike Petrovich
    11. Building For Operations - Steven Murawski, Nick Craver, and George Beech
    12. How to Run a Post-Mortem With Humans (Not Robots) - Dan Milstein
    13. Launch High-Performing Mobile Applications With Appurify - Manish Lachwani and Jay Srinivasan
    14. A Public Commitment to Performance - Seth Walker
    15. Google in the Cloud - Brad Abrams
    16. Conditions Of Failure: Building Antifragile Systems And Organizations - Dave Zwieback
    17. The Joys of Static Memory Javascript - Colt McAnlis
    18. The Dark Art of Building a Production Incident System - Alois Reitbauer
    19. Informative Workspace with Raspberry Pi - Chris Hansen and Jonathan Thurman
    20. Speed, Performance and Billions of Page Views: SOASTA Insights from Real User Data - Philip Tellis
    21. Prebrowsing - Steve Souders
    22. ChatOps: Augmented Reality for Ops - Mark Imbriaco
    23. Mining for Gold: How Browser, Network and Application Trace Mash-Ups Can Boost Application Performance - Joe Rustad and George Reese
    24. Scaling systems configuration at Facebook: the paradigms, design, and software behind managing massive numbers of systems with open source and small teams - Phil Dibowitz
    25. The Challenges Of Internationalization And Localization On Page Performance - Colin Bendell
    26. Responsive Images and Video - Jason Grigsby
    27. Prioritize Your Critical CSS and Images To Make Your Site Fast - Jan-Willem Maessen
    28. High Velocity Migration - Joshua Hoffman
    29. From Slow To Fast: Improving Performance On Intuit Web Sites By Up To 5x - Jay Hung and Norberth Danson
    30. Build Fast and Clean Web Apps with Topcoat and PhoneGap - Brian LeRoux
    31. From Artisanal to Mechanized: Operations at Evernote - Alexei Rodriguez
    32. DIY Synthetic: Private WebPagetest Magic - Jonathan Klein
    33. How Not to Do HTTP in Mobile Apps - Sajal Kayan and Aaron Peters
    34. Where Do We Go From Here? - Mike Fiedler
    35. 5 Myths about Mobile Web Performance - Michael Mullany
    36. Are Todays Good Practices... Tomorrows Performance Anti-Patterns? - Andy Davies
    37. There Is No Talent Shortage - Andrew Shafer
    38. Breaking 1000ms Mobile Barrier - Ilya Grigorik
    39. Optimizing the Black Box of HTML video - Will Law

Product information

  • Title: Velocity Conference New York 2013: Video Compilation
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  • Release date: October 2013
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9781491945506