From pppm at timchambersusa.com Sun May 4 17:27:39 2014 From: pppm at timchambersusa.com (Tim Chambers) Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 18:27:39 -0600 Subject: [Pikes-peak-pm] Fwd: Still Time to Save at Velocity 2014 In-Reply-To: <1399244415.28256.0.984777@post.oreilly.com> References: <1399244415.28256.0.984777@post.oreilly.com> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Jon Johns and Mary Thengvall* Date: Sunday, May 4, 2014 Subject: Still Time to Save at Velocity 2014 To: pppm at timchambersusa.com View this message as HTML http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zg4aupd4t04ug03s2snhsl3gqetdfctoik9su4ro Send this to a friend http://post.oreilly.com/f2f/9z1zeocs9no18lfov0h5q3vjjnaiau5suba7akpf8do Hi there, We all know that a faster website makes our customers happier. The real question is, what more can you do to fully optimize your site to delight your users-and improve your bottom line? I spent the better part of last year talking to community leaders (including you!) about what resources they needed most, and I'm happy to say that we're moving in the directions that many of you suggested. From how to sell web performance and user experience to your boss, to embracing risk and failure, monitoring, and mobile, we're exploring new trends and releasing new products and information. You can find an up-to-date collection of resources including upcoming webcasts, free reports, blogposts, and videos from O'Reilly editors, authors and speakers at: oreilly.com/velocity If you (or your group members) would like to connect in person with other developers and engineers responsible for web ops and performance, O'Reilly's Velocity Conference is coming up June 24-26 in Santa Clara. 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May 21, 9 am PT| 12 pm ET | 5 pm BST [image: Jay Kreps, Prtesnets free webcast on Apache Kafka]Learn how logs and stream-processing can form a backbone for data flow, ETL, and real-time data processing. *Jay Kreps,* a Principal Staff Engineer at LinkedIn, will describe the challenges and lessons learned as LinkedIn built out its real-time data subscription and processing infrastructure. Learn More ? ------------------------------ Fun Zone DevOps Against Humanity [image: Circle] You may have heard of Cards Against Humanity, the free party game for horrible people. Unlike most of the party games you've played before, it's as despicable and awkward as you and your friends (so says the official site). And now, *DevOps Against Humanity*. It was clearly just a matter of time. The black cards pose the question, the white cards fill in the blanks. Example: "?and then there was the time I found ________ on the root partition." Would you choose "A Scrum Master," "A 75-Tier Architecture" or ? 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Cheers, ?Marsee Henon and Jon Johns P.S. Did you hear about what happened at Ignite Seattle? In a surprise to the audience, Noah Iliinsky and Teresa Valdez Klein married on stage. In typical Ignite-style, they did it in five minutes . ------------------------------ Available for Review [image: An Introduction to d3.js: From Scattered to Scatterplot] We're looking for reviewers for the following books & videos. Consider posting your reviews on Amazon, Slashdot, oreilly.com, goodreads.com, and/or your blog. - An Introduction to d3.js: From Scattered to Scatterplot - Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS & HTML5, 3rd Edition - Concurrency in C# Cookbook It's easy for you to get books for your meeting or special events?just email usergroups at oreilly.com and include the words "book request" in the subject line. Don't forget to include your deadline and shipping address. Prefer ebooks? 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