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[Evan Dandrea <evan.dandrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anyone? I'll leave this until tomorrow, but if there are no responses
we'll just have to settle on sprints for 2014.

On 17 December 2013 17:54, Evan Dandrea <evan.dandrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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!