Velocity Conference New York 2014: Complete Video Compilation

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A faster, stronger web is no longer an option. It's an expectation.

There’s an eruption of big ideas around DevOps, web operations, web performance, and mobile—and O’Reilly’s Velocity Conference is right at the core. With this complete video compilation of Velocity 2014 New York, you’ll learn how the latest tools, skills, and ideas in web performance and operations can help you make sense of the great changes taking place at great 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 100 speakers, including Justin Arbuckle (Chef), bethanye McKinney Blount (Facebook), Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media), Tobi Knaup (Mesosphere), and Tom Limoncelli (StackExchange.com) offer different pieces of the puzzle. You’ll look at your work, your organization, and the technologies you use in completely new ways.

Tracks at Velocity NY 2014 focused on:

  • Operations:Learn what’s important to monitor and when, understand which metrics make a difference, and see how large sites deal with config management, failover, and other key issues.
  • Web Performance:Immerse yourself in the latest tools, technologies, and expert advice on getting your site to perform at warp speed.
  • Mobile:Learn how to measure, analyze, and improve mobile performance, including how UX/UI plays a key role in performance.
  • Culture & Organizational Change:Understand how to future-proof the health of your organization by managing complex systems of both the technical and human varieties.

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Table of contents

  1. Keynotes
    1. Myths of Control - Justin Arbuckle
    2. Build a Better Unicorn: Scaling Production Engineering Teams in the Real World - bethanye McKinney Blount
    3. NoSQL Key Value Stores - The Key to Velocity - Brian Bulkowski
    4. Are You Ready to Deal with Disaster? - Mehdi Daoudi
    5. One Year After healthcare.gov: Where Are We Now? - Mikey Dickerson
    6. Virtualization Application Dependencies for Better Performance - Shane Evans
    7. Cloning Yourself Isn't an Option: Becoming a Multiplier, Because You Don't Horizontally Scale - Camille Fournier
    8. TCP Optimization in a Large Scale Network - Hossein Lotfi
    9. By People, For People - Tim O'Reilly
    10. A Rant on Complexity and Stock Markets - Zoran Perkov
    11. Monitoring without Alerts - and Why it Makes Way More Sense than You Might Think - Alois Reitbauer
    12. The Mystery of Sustained Adaptability - David Woods
    13. Soccer (or Football) and IT Organizations - John Yi
  2. Performance
    1. Everything You Wanted to Know About Web Performance (But Were Afraid to Ask) - Tammy Everts and Kent Alstad - Part 1
    2. Everything You Wanted to Know About Web Performance (But Were Afraid to Ask) - Tammy Everts and Kent Alstad - Part 2
    3. Deploying and Using WebPagetest Private Instances - Patrick Meenan - Part 1
    4. Deploying and Using WebPagetest Private Instances - Patrick Meenan - Part 2
    5. RUM: Getting Beyond Page Level Metrics - Buddy Brewer and Philip Tellis - Part 1
    6. RUM: Getting Beyond Page Level Metrics - Buddy Brewer and Philip Tellis - Part 2
    7. W3C Web Performance APIs in Practice - Alois Reitbauer - Part 1
    8. W3C Web Performance APIs in Practice - Alois Reitbauer - Part 2
    9. Obnoxiously Slow Endpoints - Nicole Sullivan
    10. The Surprising Path to a Faster NYTimes.com - Eitan Konigsburg
    11. Massive, Global, Mobile, Wifi, and RUM: How eBay and PayPal Measure and Improve Site Speed - Steve Lerner and Rajasekhar Bhogi
    12. Progressive Image Rendering: Good or Evil? - Tammy Everts and Kent Alstad
    13. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Preloader? - Yoav Weiss
    14. A Better Waterfall Chart - Mark Zeman
    15. Service Workers: Offline Now(ish)! - Alex Russell
    16. Third Party Footprint: Evaluating the Performance of External Scripts - Barbara Bermes
    17. How The Huffington Post Stays Just Fast Enough - Mike Adler
    18. The Physics of Fast Graphics - Tobin Titus
    19. Making HTTP/2 Operable and Performant - Mark Nottingham
    20. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the HTTP Archive - Robin Osborne and Dean Hume
  3. Operations
    1. PostMortem Facilitation: Theory and Practice of "New View" Debriefings - John Allspaw - Part 1
    2. PostMortem Facilitation: Theory and Practice of "New View" Debriefings - John Allspaw - Part 2
    3. PostMortem Facilitation: Theory and Practice of "New View" Debriefings - John Allspaw - Part 3
    4. PostMortem Facilitation: Theory and Practice of "New View" Debriefings - John Allspaw - Part 4
    5. Finding Signal in the Monitoring Noise with Flapjack - Lindsay Holmwood and Jesse Reynolds - Part 1
    6. Finding Signal in the Monitoring Noise with Flapjack - Lindsay Holmwood and Jesse Reynolds - Part 2
    7. Scalable Infrastructure with Apache Mesos, Marathon, and Docker - Tobi Knaup - Part 1
    8. Scalable Infrastructure with Apache Mesos, Marathon, and Docker - Tobi Knaup - Part 2
    9. Mitigating User Experience from 'Breaking Bad': The Twitter Approach - Arun Kejariwal and Piyush Kumar
    10. A Practical Guide to Systems Testing - Doug Small
    11. Infrastructure as Code in Government - Anna Shipman
    12. It's 3AM, Do You Know Why You Got Paged? - Ryan Frantz
    13. Moving VividCortex to the Log-Backed Infrastructure - John Berryman and Baron Schwartz
    14. Scaling Things That Don't Scale: Scalability and Reliability at Airbnb - Ben Hughes and Jon Tai
    15. Signal Through the Noise: Best Practices for Alerting - David Josephsen
    16. Handling The Rush - Brian Nuszkowski
    17. Alice In Wonderland - Is the Network the Next Frontier for DevOps? - John Willis
    18. Automated Hardware Provisioning in the Real-world - Sean Kane
    19. Deploying on the Edge - Rob Peters
    20. API Benchmarks - Why it's Important, and How - Matteo Figus
  4. Culture Organizational Change
    1. Time Management for Busy Devs and Ops - Tom Limoncelli - Part 1
    2. Time Management for Busy Devs and Ops - Tom Limoncelli - Part 2
    3. Continuous Delusions: The Hard Truth about C.D. - Avishai Ish-Shalom
    4. A Woman's Place is at the Command Prompt - Lara Hogan, Katherine Daniels, Jennifer Davis, Bridget Kromhout, and Samantha Thomas
    5. DevOps and the Intentionally Emergent Enterprise - Jim Stogdill
    6. Minimum Viable Services for UK Taxpayers - Kalbir Sohi
    7. Real World DevOps - Rodrigo Campos
    8. The Power of Conflict - Nikolas Katsimpras
    9. Using Promise Theory to Improve Digital Service Quality - Jeff Sussna
    10. "DevOps" in a Post-DevOps World - J. Paul Reed
    11. Creating a Culture of Quality: How to Sell Web Performance to Your Organization - Mehdi Daoudi
    12. DevOps Hidden Ally - UX - Stephen Fishman
    13. Change is not a Four-Letter Word - Kimberly Blessing
    14. Engineering-Inspired Organizational Change - Jay Compton
  5. Mobile
    1. Extreme Web Performance for Mobile Devices - Maximiliano Firtman - Part 1
    2. Extreme Web Performance for Mobile Devices - Maximiliano Firtman - Part 2
    3. Responsive Fast: Iterating Live on Modern RWD Sites - Colin Bendell
    4. Building a Device Lab - Lara Hogan and Destiny Montague - Part 1
    5. Building a Device Lab - Lara Hogan and Destiny Montague - Part 2
    6. Reaching Everyone - Tim Kadlec
    7. Optimizing Your App for Real-World Networks - Jennifer Leong
    8. Responsive Images are Coming to a Browser Near You - Yoav Weiss
    9. On Application Responsiveness: How Can the Turtle Look Like a Gazelle - Amichai Nitsan, Dana Gilboa, and Efrat Ben-David
    10. Scaling Android Development - Jan Chong
    11. Etsy’s Journey to Building a Continuous Integration Infrastructure for Mobile Apps - Nassim Kammah
    12. Unpacking the Black Box: Benchmarking JS Parsing and Execution on Mobile Devices - Daniel Espeset
    13. Fast and Responsive Images - Sergey Chernyshev
    14. When Mobile Web Becomes Legacy: Our Engineering Process for Ongoing Rapid Development - Bethany Andres-Beck
    15. Test Driven Mobile Development with Appium, Just Like Selenium - Jonah Stiennon
    16. Building the Facebook Experience for the Mobile World - Adam Ernst
    17. The Natives are Getting Restless: A Survey of Native RUM Solutions - Buddy Brewer and Cliff Crocker
  6. Sponsored
    1. This is Your Website on Tags - Emily Riley and Norm Morrison
    2. Leveraging a Cloud Architecture for Fun, Ease and Profit! - Harold Hannon
    3. From Design to Production Monitoring – Passing the Baton in the App Performance Lifecycle - Shane Evans and Oded Keret
    4. Reimagining Application Delivery Controllers as Cloud Services - Marc Gaffan
    5. Rigorous Performance Testing on the Web - Grant Ellis
    6. Scaling Down: The Offline First Story - Joan Touzet
    7. Caching the Uncacheable: Leveraging Your CDN to Cache Dynamic Content - Hooman Beheshti
    8. Mobilizing Your Website: Performance and Protection in a More Mobile World - Doug McCausland
    9. Make Your Data Talk: Analytic Techniques for Identifying Hidden Performance Issues - Steve Fox and Rob Dickinson
    10. Breaking Boundaries: Taking Synthetic Monitoring Beyond Alerts - Tom Gerhard
    11. Using Data to Save Your Customer Experiences - David Lemaire
    12. The Easy Button – How To Measure Revenue in Milliseconds - Steve Skroce and Buddy Brewer
    13. 17 Things You Need to Know About Website Performance - Steve Miller-Jones

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  • Title: Velocity Conference New York 2014: Complete Video Compilation
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  • Release date: September 2014
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 978149190039