Surge — A Scalability & Performance Conference, presented by OmniTI.

Surge 2010 Call forProposals

Interested in Speaking at Surge?

We are now accepting proposals for conference sessions at the Surge Conference. The deadline for all proposals is Midnight EDT on July 9, 2010. Please send proposals to surge@omniti.com, titled Surge 2010 Session Proposal.

Presentations should last approximately 45 minutes with time for 10 minutes of audience Q&A. Each abstract should be approximately 100-200 words. We want to hear about your failures, your successes and everything in-between. Accepted proposals will demonstrate real-life scalability challenges and creative solutions. We love case studies and learning from our mistakes. Show us what you've got.

Suggested topics and themes:

• Database Sharding
• Distributed Compute and Storage Services
• Continuous Code Deployments
• Choosing the Wrong Technology

• Transactional Monitoring
• Geographically Redundant Systems
• Agile Operations
• Predictive Scaling
• RDBMS vs NoSQL

• Designing and Troubleshooting Asynchronous Systems
• Evolution of Service-Oriented Architectures
• Scaling Cloud Backups
• Root Cause Analysis