Google Seattle Conference on Scalability -- 2008 Edition.

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

I was really looking forward to this conference based on my experience last year, with the likes of Jeff Dean and Marissa Mayer presenting. When I saw the original agenda for Saturday I was excited to see they expanded the number of talks at the expense of having to make a decision about which presentation to attend, a task at which I often feel I failed.

When I arrived, late, I was surprised to see they decided to change the format and rather than have two tracks for each session, the presentations were shorten so everyone could attend every talk. I’m not sure how much notice the presenters were given of this decision because a number had presentations well exceeding the diminished time frame. As a conference presenter myself, I know that a well re-hearsed presentation can be difficult to amend on the fly.

QCon 2007 interview.

Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The video and transcript of an interview I gave at QCon 2007 are now available.

This was my first time giving a recorded interview and I’m finding it very weird to watch myself talk.