{"id":6625,"date":"2016-06-07T17:03:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T17:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abstracta.us\/?p=6625"},"modified":"2025-05-05T21:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T21:21:15","slug":"4-reasons-attend-velocity-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/performance-testing\/4-reasons-attend-velocity-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Reasons to Attend Velocity 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Go to www.addthis.com\/dashboard to customize your tools --><script src=\"\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-58d80a50fc4f926d\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">Join us at one of the largest conferences about all things performance<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only two more weeks until Velocity 2016 in Santa Clara! We are busy getting ready for one of the best conferences for performance professionals taking place on June 22-23. The conference mainly revolves around the goal that most companies must work toward today:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0have web pages that load quickly, infrastructure that scales efficiently, and reliable sites and services despite having limited resources. Each year, Velocity draws thousands of people from CTOs to academics who all want to learn and share their successes and failures related to web operations, performance, and DevOps.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">Here are just 4 reasons to attend Velocity 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_Intriguing_Sessions_by_Industry_Experts\"><\/span>1. Intriguing Sessions by Industry Experts<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There will be a wide range of sessions from professionals spanning several industries, but the ones focused on DevOps are the ones that we are the most excited for! For example, BlazeMeter CEO, Alon Girmonsky will lead a session on continuous performance testing and AppDynamics will reflect upon how they went from centralized to distributed DevOps. For more information about the sessions, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.oreilly.com\/velocity\/devops-web-performance-ca\/public\/schedule\/stype\/903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">schedule<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or read this post about the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DevOps sessions that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blazemeter.com\/blog\/6-cant-miss-upcoming-devops-focused-sessions-velocity-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you can\u2019t miss<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_Its_Kind_of_a_Big_Deal\"><\/span>2. It&#8217;s Kind of a Big Deal<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6667\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abstracta.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/giphy-41.gif\" alt=\"giphy (41)\" width=\"500\" height=\"247\" \/>Out of all of the tech conferences, Velocity is known for being one of the most professional and valuable conferences that one could attend. Industry leaders reveal their behind-the-scenes methods that have made them the best in web performance and give you information that you can truly act upon, not just skirting around the topics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Some of the past attendees have said:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I can say without hyperbole that this was the best conference I&#8217;ve attended. The presentations were from people doing real large-scale web development and included a fair amount of real data and some of their solutions to hard problems.&#8221; \u2014<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/antennasoft.net\/robcee\/2009\/06\/29\/velocity-09\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">robcee<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Velocity is the conference I always wanted. Instead of focusing on one particular product or technology, it focuses on the true problem of keeping websites fast and available, which a lot of us have to deal with&#8221; \u2014Peter Zaitsev, CEO Percona Inc., co-author of <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/oreilly.com\/catalog\/9780596101718\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High Performance MySQL<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">And, there\u2019s reason to believe that what they say about the conference is true! Check out these popular sessions from past years at Velocity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Rodney_Mullen_%E2%80%9CBuilding_on_a_Bedroc_of_Failure%E2%80%9D_%E2%80%93_2014\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Rodney Mullen: &#8220;Building on a Bedroc of Failure&#8221; &#8211; 2014\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RiSiY9iWrMU?list=PL055Epbe6d5aFXqs5UPAyQxs3D-1tHVCy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Jesse_Robbins_%E2%80%9CChanging_the_Culture_Being_a_Force_for_Awesome%E2%80%9D_%E2%80%93_2012\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Jesse Robbins: &#8220;Changing the Culture &amp; Being a Force for Awesome&#8221; &#8211; 2012<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OU8ihx3nT6I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Jay_Parikh_%E2%80%9CBuilding_for_a_Billion_USers_Facebook_%E2%80%93_2012\"><\/span>Jay Parikh: &#8220;Building for a Billion USers (Facebook) &#8211; 2012<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oodS71YtkGU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3_Great_Location\"><\/span>3. Great Location<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">45 miles south of San Francisco, Santa Clara lies in the heart of Silicon Valley, one of the globe\u2019s most important economic hubs and home to some of the world\u2019s most famous innovators and disruptors. Its central location is convenient for all of the tech professionals in the bay area who will be attending conference. The city is most famous for being the home of Intel, Santa Clara University, and the new Levi\u2019s Stadium, aka the home of the San Francisco 49\u2019ers. If you&#8217;re looking for something different, Santa Clara also contains another Silicon Valley within itself: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santaclara.org\/things-to-do\/korean-silicon-valley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Korean Silicon Valley<\/a>, where you can feast on authentic, delicious Korean BBQ!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4_Take_Home_Your_Own_BB-8_Droid\"><\/span>4. Take Home Your Own BB-8 Droid<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Lastly, you should attend because you could win a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sphero.com\/starwars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BB-8 App-Enabled Droid by Sphero<\/a> if you attend one of our or BlazeMeter&#8217;s demos. Here&#8217;s a cool promo video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-1Y2WfcCb4M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">To attend a demo or just say hi, visit us at booth<\/span>\u00a0#621<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> where we will be exhibiting along with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blazemeter.com\/blog\/6-cant-miss-upcoming-devops-focused-sessions-velocity-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BlazeMeter<\/a>.<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Recommended_for_You\"><\/span><strong>Recommended for You<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/software-testing\/7-cant-miss-sessions-performance-cmg-impact-conference-2016\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7 Can&#8217;t-Miss Sessions on Performance at CMG-imPACt Conference 2016<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/abstracta.us\/blog\/software-testing\/5-things-we-learned-from-techcrunch-disrupt-sf-2015\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5 Things We Learned From TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us at one of the largest conferences about all things performance Only two more weeks until Velocity 2016 in Santa Clara! 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