Hi, So I never got replies to the conference attendance email I sent out a while back. Alex raised finalising our event attendance for 2014 in a recent thread and it got me thinking that we missed an opportunity here.
I went off and tried to find a conference that would be a good fit for where we're going in the coming year and, after chatting with people who have attended it in the past, I arrived at Velocity. From High Scalability: "Focused on web performance and operations, learn how to make sites scalable, reliable, and fast, which covers a lot of ground. Practical. Attendees indicate they find it useful. 2-3 days." I think this would give us more strength in building for fault-tolerance and scale, while also getting the latest advances in webops (which we kind of are, when you think about our role in managing these services just as much as we write the code for them). I'd like to send two people. One of Larry or Rick (if either of you guys are willing to attend) to get the ops perspective, and a coder to get the architecture perspective. I think any of you would make good candidates, provided you are supremely confident that you can take very good notes to bring back and disseminate to the team. I would also expect you to have lots of hallway conversations with the other attendees on how we can improve our services. I haven't decided which of the locations to send these two people to yet. Santa Clara is June 24–26, 2014 and NYC is September 15–17, 2014. I'm happy to hear arguments for either, but first, who is interested in going? Thanks! -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ci-engineering Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ci-engineering More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
