A presentation on the Velocity 2011 conference to the London Web Performance Meetup group by Stephen Thair (Seriti Consulting) covering some of the key messages and takeaways from this year's event.
On the Monday night before Velocity started on Tuesday I had dinner with some other attendees and I was listening to a conversation about a Chef with a Knife in the fog and some precious stones chasing a Puppet. WTF?
It’s all about automation and configuration management… in the cloud.
Un-modified data centre apps will not work in the cloud
It’s not about how many servers you manage any more… its about how flexibly you manage them…The Amazon & Heroku presentations were very good in this regard.
BTW live tweeting is a good way to take notes!!!
Velocity is very pro open-source tools & toolkits
I’m not arguing open vs closed source, just pointing out that Velocity is a bit of an open-source echo chamber…
In fact there were very few presentation that, IMHO, actually told you anything new about web performance.
The MSN performance talk was excellent http://velocityconf.com/velocity2011/public/schedule/detail/18039Performance improvements can increase and DECREASE your bottom line so be careful!
A lot of presentations flirted around the edges… but there is still nothing definitive (IMHO)
Here is one reason why a mobile browser isn’t the same as a desktop browser….(on Android) the “web browser” is a Java App calling a C/C++ app which calls another C app…
Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty or Just Enough Statistics to be DangerousLook at Your Data
Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty or Just Enough Statistics to be DangerousLook at Your Data
Build your won adventure was just a great practical talk and a lot of fun!
Lots of great, pithy advice in Adam’s talk!
The cloud will become a ubiquitous, seamless part of everyone’s live. What sci-fi author’s call an “exo-memory” and we are building it, right now.