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

Surge 2010 Keynote & Speaker List

Discussing Scalability Matters…

…because scalability matters. Surge is more than an event, it's a chance to identify emerging trends and meet the architects behind established technologies. Learn from their mistakes and see how their victories can power your business forward.

John Allspaw Keynote
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John Allspaw VP of Technical Operations, Etsy

John has worked in systems operations for over fourteen years in biotech, government and online media. He started out tuning parallel clusters running vehicle crash simulations for the U.S. government, and then moved on to the Internet in 1997. He built the backing infrastructures at Salon, InfoWorld, Friendster, and Flickr. He is now VP of Tech Operations at Etsy, and is the author of The Art of Capacity Planning published by O'Reilly.

John's Talks

Opening Keynote

Day 1 - 9:00 am

Location: Corinthian

  • Group Session

The "Go or No-Go": Operability and Contingency at Etsy

Day 2 - 11:00 am

Location: Corinthian

  • Scalability,
  • Operations
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You've been working on the wicked new feature for a long time. Design is done, the product people love it, and the code's about as polished as it can be. Launching new public-facing features is different than making small changes to existing functionality. I'll talk about the process we have at Etsy (influenced by Flickr's) for making sure that new awesome thing is *operable* and the right attention has been given to contingency planning, on both the technical and human sides.

Program

Sessions

Speakers will be added as we approach the event dates. Visit back for updates to this page and the Sessions Calendar.