I've been attending conference in the "Internet space" regularly for about 12 years. I have enjoyed conferences about web technologies, open source, and programming languages technologies. Many, though not all, of the conferences I've enjoyed have been put on by O'Reilly — they put on some good shows.
Over the last two years I have immensely enjoyed my involvement with the Velocity conference. It is, in my opinion, the de facto conference on web performance and operations.
This past week I had the privilege of presenting along side many distinguished speakers at this year's PostgreSQL Conference East 2010 in Philadelphia, PA. I presented PostgreSQL: meet your queue which was received even more warmly than I had anticipated. I really think that cueing your database to publish over AMQP is the bees knees and it turns out I wasn't alone!
In perhaps a new trend, I’m blogging from 39011 feet (or so says the seatback in front of me). I’m traveling back home to the east coast from San Jose, CA where I attended (and spoke) at this year’s O’Reilly Velocity Conference.
I participated (and blogged) about the Velocity Summit in which I’ve participated for the past two years. The summit is the unconference preceding the real conference that help the organizers digest current hot topics and better define the conference track for the actual conference.
I’m pretty excited that Robert Treat is talking at PostgreSQL Conference East 2009. He’ll be talking about the upcoming release of PostgreSQL 8.4. The postgres product is pretty complete and has been pretty complete for quite some time. I’ve been noted for saying I wouldn’t use a database feature in production that hasn’t been available (and tested) for several years. As such, it is a bit ironic for me to say I’m excited for a new release of a database product.
So, there's this really neat little conference being run by Percona. It's in the Santa Clara Convention Center on April 22nd and 23rd. If you are in the bay area, you should come check it out. It's *free* and the speakers list is simply smashing.
I'll be giving a talk on a largish PostgreSQL install that happens to be on Solaris on ZFS. So, interesting stuff all around.
I don't make it out to California that often, so if you want to catch me -- that'd be a good time.
Two weeks ago was a whirlwind. I thought I'd catch up last week and blog about it, but it was so taxing that my fatigue combined with three germ monsters at home resulted in a severe cold that knocked me out.
The 8th 4:28am Amtrak BWI to NYP. I had the privilege and honor of visiting Club 101 in New York, NY to speak to the New York CTO Group. I spoke on the topics of (you guessed it) scalability and performance in Internet applications.
Hello from OSCON. I gave my full-stack introspection crash course talk today. It has been quite a while since I've presented anything in a 40 minute format, but I think the talk went quite well. I got a lot of positive feedback.
I decided to take a risky approach inspired by dtrace.conf(08) by demonstrating dtrace on a live, mission-critical system we run at OmniTI. The risks of this are: network connections flake out, dtrace doesn't work correctly or I do something stupid and cause some service unavailability.
