Velocity: Tim O’Reilly and 20% discount
It was great to read Tim O’Reilly’s blog post about Velocity. He tells the story about the first meeting where we talked about starting a conference for the web performance and operations community. It almost didn’t happen! The first meeting got postponed. This was at OSCON, and Tim got tied up preparing his keynote. Luckily, we were able to get together the next day.
Looking back, that seems so long ago. The excitement about web performance has skyrocketed since then, in part because of Velocity. There’s also been a lot of tool development in that space, including Firebug, YSlow, Page Speed, HttpWatch, PageTest, VRTA, and neXpert. All of these tools, and more, will be showcased at Velocity, happening this week in San Jose. The sessions take place on Tuesday, June 23 and Wednesday, June 24.
As a final nod, Tim provides a 20% discount code: VEL09BLOG. I hope to see you here!