John Adams’ views on emerging technologies, software engineering, and various hacks
Velocity was great. Today’s best talks were on Puppet, and EUCALYPTUS, both methods for automatically setting up, configuring, and deploying systems. Now, a couple of computer history lessons for you, lest you believe that all of the fancy, state-of-the-art talks at Velocity were not built on the backs of giants: History of programming languages, in [...]
Velocity (day one) went amazingly well. Again, let me thank Jesse for dinner and the chance to speak there. Part way through the day I got caught up in a bit of a media circus, but I survived. I finally got to meet Steve Gillmor, even if he had a camera shoved in my face. [...]
I made it to Velocity around lunch as I was dealing with work business, but so far it’s been pretty decent. Thanks to Jesse Robbins for the invite to speak this evening at Ignite, and for access to the conference. The day opened (for me, at least) with the Measuring Performance presentation. The general takeaway [...]
I am speaking at Ignite Velocity (which is part of the O’Rellly velocity conference). I’ll be giving a short presentation on Scaling sites for adult hosting, which will cover technical and operations aspects of building sites to scale for video. I’ll post up slides shortly.
The kind people who run Ignite finally got around to posting my Snarkatron slides, which are now available on slideshare (with audio, thanks to DNA’s webcast.) Slideshare link for snarkatron slides I apologize for talking so fast; I only had five minutes!
I’d like to share with you some takeaways from the Web 2.0 conference, mainly in the realm of scaling and web development. John Allspaw’s Capacity Planning for Web Operations: http://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/capacity-planning-for-web-operations-web20-expo-2008 Why startups need automated infrastructures This talk was pretty awseome. It dealt with automating operations work. http://www.slideshare.net/adamhjk/why-startups-need-automated-infrastructures Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches (2007) [...]
For those of you that missed my talk at Ignite SF, O’Reilly liked it enough to allow me to speak at the Keynote on Friday. I’ll be going through the talk again sometime in the morning, around 10:15 AM as part of the Keynote. See you there!
I’ll be speaking at Ignite SF, at DNA Lounge on April 22nd as part of the Web 2.0 Expo. You’ll need a badge to attend, and I suggest you register as soon as possible! Note that you will have to drop by Moscone Center and pick up your badge during the day before coming to [...]
Courtesy of juhani, here’s a listing of parties during next week’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Original posting from http://www.xihalife.com/b/juhani/1540 I’m attending the Mashable/Chi.mp party, but that’s it so far. List is duplicated below…
Sun Microsystems is hosting CommunityOne, a free tech conference at The Moscone Center, San Francisco. If you’d like to go for free, please register at http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone and use registration ID number W1082146 ! It’s on May 5th, 2008, only three weeks away! Some info, follows, courtesy of the Sun site: Join experts and contributors from [...]
