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[Evan Dandrea <evan.dandrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

So I never got replies to the conference attendance email I sent out a
while back. Alex raised finalising our event attendance for 2014 in a
recent thread and it got me thinking that we missed an opportunity
here.

I went off and tried to find a conference that would be a good fit for
where we're going in the coming year and, after chatting with people
who have attended it in the past, I arrived at Velocity.

>From High Scalability:

"Focused on web performance and operations, learn how to make sites
scalable, reliable, and fast, which covers a lot of ground. Practical.
Attendees indicate they find it useful. 2-3 days."

I think this would give us more strength in building for
fault-tolerance and scale, while also getting the latest advances in
webops (which we kind of are, when you think about our role in
managing these services just as much as we write the code for them).

I'd like to send two people. One of Larry or Rick (if either of you
guys are willing to attend) to get the ops perspective, and a coder to
get the architecture perspective.

I think any of you would make good candidates, provided you are
supremely confident that you can take very good notes to bring back
and disseminate to the team. I would also expect you to have lots of
hallway conversations with the other attendees on how we can improve
our services.

I haven't decided which of the locations to send these two people to
yet. Santa Clara is June 24–26, 2014 and NYC is September 15–17, 2014.
I'm happy to hear arguments for either, but first, who is interested
in going?

Thanks!