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Artur Bergman, hacker and technologist-at-large, is the VP of Engineering and Operations at Wikia. In this presentation, he discusses the importance of operations and performance.

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John Fowler, Sun Microsystem

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Javier Soltero (Hyperic, Inc.)–Just as people are beginning to understand the difference between web ops and IT, we are entering a period where clouds promise “Ops-Free” computing. Soltero talks about the emergence of web operations as a discipline, and how cloud computing simply changes, instead of eliminating, the importance of web operations.

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Luiz Barroso (Google)–Managing the energy-related costs of computing operations has become a first order concern for many organizations. In this talk, Barroso will outline some of the important energy cost and usage trends in datacenter operations, and describe a few of the key areas where there is significant potential for efficiency improvements.

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Rich Wolski (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)–In this talk, Wolski presents Eucalyptus, an open source implementation of cloud computing that is interface compatible with Amazon.com’s EC2. The talk focuses on the design, the implementation tradeoffs that have been identified in implementing Eucalyptus as an exploratory tool, and the ways in which the tradeoffs have been addressed in the first version of the software.

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Ignite War Stories Winner Kirrily Robert discusses open data.

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Harald Prokop (Akamai Technologies)–Since 1999, Akamai has built a large-scale distributed system with 30,000+ servers spread across 1000+ networks and 70+ countries. Akamai’s technology-at its core, applied mathematics and algorithms-manages the distribution of large content libraries and intelligently optimizes routes to accelerate dynamic sites and applications. This talk will focus on the design principles and architecture of the Akamai network and how it enables the Internet to deliver large libraries of HD content and accelerates dynamic transactions.

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HTTPWatch from Simon Perkins (Simtec Limited); Fiddler from Eric Lawrence (Microsoft); AOL PageTest from Eric Goldsmith (AOL, LLC); Profiling Dynamic Web Applications with Firebug from John J. Barton (IBM); moderated by Velocity co-chair Steve Souders of Google.

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Sean Quinlan (Google, Inc.)–Google has built several large-scale storage systems on top of commodity machines and networking. This talk will briefly describe the storage infrastructure, highlight some of the approaches used to achieve reliability and availability, and discuss future challenges.

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Web developers are asking more from today’s browsers — more speed, more functionality, and more ability to make web applications that make users happy. To talk about how browser development happens with respect to new standards, such as what influences decisions around which new APIs to implement first and how to implement new features in the face of still-changing standards proposals, we have a series of representatives from Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Opera taking part in a panel discussion moderated by Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering at Facebook.