Steve Souders

Steve Souders

Google

Steve Souders works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. His book High Performance Web Sites explains his best practices for performance along with the research and real-world results behind them. Steve is the creator of YSlow, Cuzillion, and Hammerhead. He is co-chair of Velocity and co-founder of the Firebug Working Group. He taught CS193H High Performance Web Sites at Stanford, and frequently speaks at conferences including OSCON, The Ajax Experience, SXSW, and Web 2.0 Expo.

Sessions

9:00am Monday, 06/22/2009
Website Performance Analysis
Web Performance
 Location: Regency 2
Steve Souders (Google)
In this workshop, Steve Souders explains the rules he developed as part of YSlow, as well as new best practices he's developed while at Google. With those in mind, he analyzes several of today's popular websites to see how well they follow, or don't follow, this advice. Read more.
8:30am Tuesday, 06/23/2009
Opening Welcome
Keynote
Location: Regency Ballroom
Jesse Robbins (Opscode & O'Reilly Radar), Steve Souders (Google)
Jesse Robbins and Steve Souders welcome you to Velocity 2009! Read more.
8:30am Wednesday, 06/24/2009
Welcome
Keynote
Location: Regency Ballroom
Jesse Robbins (Opscode & O'Reilly Radar), Steve Souders (Google)
Morning welcome and program notes from Jesse Robbins and Steve Souders. Read more.
5:05pm Wednesday, 06/24/2009
State of Performance
Web Performance
 Location: Regency 1
Steve Souders (Google)
Why is the Web so slow? Steve Souders talks about the issues that prevent web sites from being faster, and what we should expect to see to address these problems. Read more.
  • Keynote Systems
  • Google
  • Shopzilla
  • Aptimize
  • Facebook
  • NeuStar
  • Rackspace Cloud
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • SoftLayer
  • SpringSource
  • Sun Microsystems

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