Call for Proposals

We are now accepting proposals for conference sessions at the Surge Conference. The deadline for all proposals is 23:59 EDT on May 1, 2012. Please send proposals to surge@omniti.com, titled Surge 2012 Session Proposal.

Presentations should last approximately 45 minutes with time for 10 minutes of audience Q&A. Each abstract should be approximately 100-200 words. We want to hear about your failures, your successes and everything in-between. Accepted proposals will demonstrate real-life scalability challenges and creative solutions. We love case studies and learning from our mistakes. Please have a look at the online video of past Surge conferences for an example of content depth and focus. Show us what you've got.

Suggested topics and themes:

• Database Scaling
• Distributed Computing
• Distributed Storage
• Implementing Holistic Quality of Service
• Seamless Technology Migration Techniques

• Virtualization at Scale
• Networking Techniques
• Case Study: Choosing the Wrong Technology
• Monitoring Techniques

• Geographically Redundant Systems
• Predictive Scaling
• Overcoming Code Deployment Challenges
• Designing and Troubleshooting Asynchronous Systems
• Evolution of Service-Oriented Architectures