Community user groups

New York Web Performance Workshop

Events coming up

• Dec 16

  NBC iVillage CTO: How to Get Your Tech-Startup Taken Seriously by a Big Company

  New York, United States

  Tammy Hepps, CTO of NBC Universal iVillage presents: How to Get Your Tech-Startup Taken Seriously by a Big Company Tammy Hepps is the Chief Technical Officer of NBC Universal iVillage. Her exceptional experience spans both startup and big-company and includes having been the VP of Technology for a joint venture startup between Dow Jones and IAC, Director of Software Development for the NYTimes.com and Director of Technology for Barnes & Noble SparkNotes.

Past events

• 10gen CEO & DoubleClick Co-Founder: MongoDB, high-performance SQL-free database

  18-19 Nov 2009 in New York, United States

  MongoDB, high-performance SQL-free database Part of the NY Web Performance Group Ginourmous-Performance Series! Presented by Dwight Merriman, CEO of 10gen, Chairman & Co-Founder of AlleyCorp and Co-Founder of DoubleClick This will be a joint-Meetup with 5-groups (1700+ members!), so the networking opportunities will be outstanding! Dwight is one of the leading engineering minds in the Interactive industry, possessing a particular knack for solving the most complex problems.

• Meetup.com Web Performance Story

  17-18 Nov 2009 in New York, United States

  Meetup.com's technology team will talk about their attempts to work on web performance, challenges they faced and technologies they used. This event is hosted at Meetup HQ at: [b]632 Broadway 3rd floor New York, NY 10012[/b] Click here to get directions.

• Quick Wins: Performance Tuning + 3rd Party Patches for MySQL

  28-29 Oct 2009 in New York, United States

  Presented by Morgan Tocker, world-renowned MySQL Expert at Percona, Inc. This will be a joint-Meetup with 5-groups (1700+ members!), so the networking opportunities will be outstanding! Morgan Tocker is Director of Training at Percona where he provides world famous scaling advice to Web 2.0 and Fortune 100 clients. He is a regular presenter on PHP and MySQL, having spoken at conferences such as PHP Quebec, the MySQL Conference, PHP-Tek, PHP-works and International PHP Conference.

• Building your own CDN using Amazon EC2

  14-15 Oct 2009 in New York, United States

  Rusty Conover, CTO InfoGears Inc. will talk about building your own reverse-proxying CDN using Amazon EC2 cloud.More details and location will be posted closer to the event.

• Saving traffic and money ($$$)

  15-16 Sep 2009 in New York, United States

  We're going to talk about speeding stuff up by transferring less over the network.In addition to making it faster, it also allows you to have thinner pipes and saves money in traffic bills.

• JavaScript Performance

  18-19 Aug 2009 in New York, United States

  We're going to talk about JavaScript performance in regular web pages, AJAX applications as well as widgets.

• DUI.Stream and MXHR

  14-15 Jul 2009 in New York, United States

  Scott Trudeau from Apartment Therapy (/) will talk about Multi-part XHR requests and Digg's DUI.Stream implementation of this technique. As usual, we'll be doing some hands-on performance optimization so bring your laptops or just chat with others regarding specific issues or optimization techniques. Venue is not arranged yet so feel free to contact organizers if you want to host or otherwise sponsor the event.

• Web Performance for PHP Developers @ Etsy Labs

  16-17 Jun 2009 in Brooklyn, United States

  We're going to talk about performance best practices for PHP developers. PHP + DB Hans Zaunere All modern web sites require persistent data storage and manipulation. New York PHP Managing Member Hans Zaunere will review common bottlenecks and best practices for keeping PHP and the database speedy and reliable. Although we'll talk specifically on MySQL, we'll also learn how these concepts are relevant for any database and the roll memcached has in keeping your web sites flying.