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Slides for Velocity Talk 2009

  • 23. Jun
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  • Culture, Slides, Talks, Tools, WebOps
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UPDATE: blip.tv has the video of the talk as well, below. Jeez I have some major bed-head. That was a blast! I had never done a ‘duet’ talk before. Here are the slides: 10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr …and the video of it is here:...
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2009 Velocity Conference submissions are open!

  • 20. Nov
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  • Talks, WebOps
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The CFP for next year’s Velocity Conference is up now, so all you ops and performance ninjas submit your ideas for talks. I’m lucky enough to be on the program committee this year, and I think the conference is a huge opportunity to spread the ops love on all kinds of topics. There’s a list...
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