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Speed Matters: Statistics and Scaling
June 24th, 2010 : Colleen MillerThe third annual O’Reilly Velocity conference brought together more than 1,000 attendees to share and learn about the business benefits of peak web site performance. Here are additional photos from the conference:
Joshua Bixby, CEO of Strangeloop Networks, shared interesting data from the front lines of web acceleration.
Facebook’s Tom Cook spoke Wednesday about how the social media giant manages its engineering and operations functions to maximize speed and innovation.
George Reese of enStratus spoke during a Wednesday afternoon session on auto-scaling cloud computing applications, and discussed how to plan for capacity when using cloud services.
Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale, shared his companies experiences in helping clients manage cloud services to rapidly scale usage of social gaming applications from Zynga.
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