Velocity Conference: Call For Participation Open

For Immediate Release

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Dawn Applegate
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O'Reilly Velocity Conference: Breaking Web Performance and Operations Barriers 
Call for participation is now open

Sebastopol, CA, November 15, 2007--The first ever O'Reilly Velocity conference will take place June
23-24, 2008 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott in Burlingame, California. Web companies, big and
small, face many of the same challenges: sites must be faster, infrastructure needs to scale, and
everything must be available to customers at all times, no matter what. Velocity is dedicated to
helping attendees obtain the crucial skills and knowledge to build successful websites. Velocity is
where to learn how to build websites that are fast, scalable, resilient, and highly-available.

Expected to attend Velocity are over 600 developers, engineers, technology managers, executives,
CTO/CIOs, entrepreneurs, researchers, and academics. Velocity provides two intense days devoted to
technical sessions in two tracks: Performance and Operations.   Attendees will learn practical
techniques from peers, exchange ideas with experts, and share best practices & lessons learned.
The conference planning team is actively seeking submissions around the following topics:

-Scaling experiences (good and bad)
-CDNs: Getting content closer to the customer
-Networking, DNS, and load balancing
-Managing Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures
-Making RIAs that are fast!
-Maximizing Database Performance and Efficiency
-Optimizing Code
-Capacity Planning & Load Testing
-Configuration Management
-Monitoring & Instrumentation
-Incident Management & Business Continuity Planning
-Virtualization in Production
-Policy / Process / Compliance

Conference co-chair Steve Souders, is predicting a terrific conference and is seeking speaking
proposals at a variety of level of depth: from medium-to-advanced:

"Today, everyone is focused on making their sites faster and more resilient. We're especially
interested in hearing from the people who their company turns to when things go wrong, to learn
about what they've found is the key to a scalable web app that delivers."

In addition to thought provoking and informative sessions, conference attendees will also have an
opportunity to network at a variety of events including:

-Ignite, a rapid-fire showcase of amazing projects and ideas
-Half day of Products & Services sessions which will cover performance and operations
-Birds of a Feather sessions: Evening gatherings that are attendee led around topics of interest
-An exhibit hall that will include sponsors and exhibitors who will be demonstrating as well as
launching new products and services.

The submission deadline for all proposals is December 31, 2007.
Registration for both general attendees and media will open in March 2008. 

About the Program Chairs

Jesse Robbins is passionate about Operations, Distributed Systems, Fault-Tolerance, and Resilient
Design. He currently advises startups and writes for O'Reilly Radar. He previously worked at
Amazon.com where his title was "Master of Disaster" and where he was responsible for Website
Availability.  Jesse is a volunteer Firefighter/EMT and Emergency Manager, and led a task force
deployed in Operation Hurricane Katrina.

Steve Souders works at Yahoo! as the Chief Performance Yahoo!. As part of his work, Steve has
developed a set of best practices for making web sites faster. His book, High Performance Web Sites
explains these best practices along with the research and hands-on results that went into them.
Steve is the creator of YSlow, the performance analysis extension to Firebug. He has spoken at
several conferences including OSCON, Rich Web Experience, Web 2.0 Expo, and The Ajax Experience. To
see a description of program co-chair Steve Souder's book, visit:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529307/

Learn more about Velocity 2008 by visiting: 
http://en.oreilly.com/velocity2008/public/content/home

To submit a proposal during the call for participation phase, visit:
http://en.oreilly.com/velocity2008/public/cfp/9

To read all of the news about Velocity 2008 visit:
http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/velocity/

If you'd like to stay up to date on information relating to Velocity, sign up for the conference
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If you have ideas about areas you'd like to see included at the conference, send a note to:
velocity-idea@oreilly.com

For information about exhibiting or sponsoring at Velocity 2008 event, contact Sharon Cordesse at
(707) 827-7065 or scordesse@oreilly.com

If you would like to discuss forming a media or promotional partnership with O'Reilly for an
upcoming event, contact Avila Reese at (707) 827-7116 or mediapartners@oreilly.com

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