Sessions at Velocity 2011 about Web Operations

Tuesday 14th June 2011

• Advanced Postmortem Fu and Human Error 101

  by John Allspaw

  Getting tight operationally means strengthening the resiliency of both your stack _and_ your organization's response to issues that arise. Outage postmortem meetings done wrong can be stress-filled blamefests, and done right can be collaborative illustrations of Resilience Engineering. I'll use Etsy.com examples to illustrate sticky topics such as Root Cause Analysis and Human Error.

  • Etsy
  • Web Operations

  At 1:45pm to 3:15pm, Tuesday 14th June

  Coverage write-up slide deck

Wednesday 15th June 2011

• Career Development

  by Theo Schlossnagle

  This keynote will be a whimsical whirlwind tour through the evolution of a “career” in web operations.

  • Careers
  • Web Operations

  At 8:40am to 8:55am, Wednesday 15th June

  Coverage video

Thursday 16th June 2011

• State of the Infrastructure

  by Rachel Chalmers

  It’s easy to forget that the story of infrastructure is a human story. In this session, we will take a step back and trace the history of automation and virtualization, touching on specific pioneers and the use cases they developed for both technologies, looking at the emergence of the devops role and its significance as organizations move towards the cloud.

  • Web Operations

  At 10:20am to 10:35am, Thursday 16th June

  Coverage video