THE SCALABILITY AND PERFORMANCE CONFERENCE
September 21-23, 2016
The Surge Conference is the place where Web Infrastructure and Scalability experts gather, advance and emerge. Meet and network with industry peers and attendees from all over the tech industry.
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Surge will deliver two days packed with presentations about Scalabilty & Performance at Gaylord National Harbor, MD.
What is Surge 2016? Two days of mind-blowing, practitioner-oriented sessions presented by some of the most established professionals in our field. OmniTI has a reputation for scalable web applications and architectures and a history of sharing the knowledge we learn, working on some of the most critical web infrastructure you'll find anywhere.
Surge allows us to continue this mission, bringing the best and brightest in Web Operations to the East Coast. Now in its seventh year, Surge has become the place where thought leaders in scalability and performance gather.
Habitat is a new approach to automation that focuses on the application instead of the infrastructure it runs on. With Habitat, the apps you build, deploy, and manage behave consistently in any runtime — bare metal, VMs, containers, and PaaS. You'll spend less time on the environment and more time building features.
Thursday kicks off a full day of Surge talks followed by an evening mixer. Get your head packed full of awesome info, then go hash out the details with your fellow attendees.
Friday we start an hour later, but still hit you with a ton of good information to take back home. At the end of the day you'll have one more chance to say hi and bye to new friends and old during our closing session, which is always a great time.
Braintree provides the easiest way to pay and get paid across any device. With one integration, merchants can start accepting credit and debit cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Android Pay, Venmo, and whatever comes next. Thousands of online and mobile companies including Uber, Airbnb, and GithHub use Braintree in more than 45 countries. To learn more, visit braintreepayments.com or @braintree.
VividCortex is the best way to see what your production databases are doing so you can ship better code to production with confidence. It is a modern SaaS database performance monitoring platform that significantly eases the pain of database performance at scale, on distributed and polyglot systems, for the entire engineering team. It’s hosted for you with industry-leading security, and continuously improved and maintained. Unlike traditional monitoring, we measure and analyze the system’s work and resource consumption. The result is immediate insight into query performance, better performance and quality, faster time-to-market, and reduced cost and effort.
At AOL, our mission is to simplify the internet for consumers and creators by unleashing the world's best builders of culture and code. We connect people through our products and experiences across a growing community of over 700 million global unique users in 22 global markets. To do this, we build brands that are household names like The Huffington Post, Engadget and TechCrunch and have a powerhouse advertising division, AOL Platforms.
We are bursting with new ideas and dreaming without limits. At AOL, we have the tools, reach and resources to mobilize the future. We make these dreams possible through cutting edge, open-source technologies.
Sticker Mule is the fastest and easiest way to buy custom stickers, labels, and magnets. We offer free online proofs, 5 day turnaround and free UPS Ground shipping. We aim to be the Internet's favorite custom sticker printing service. We help thousands of people, startups, bloggers, artists and companies order awesome stickers that are printed beautifully and ship fast.
For companies experiencing issues associated with growth and scalability of their customer-facing websites, OmniTI is the leading Web Scalability and Performance provider using a cross-disciplinary approach to achieve unparalleled levels of web and database performance. We enable revenue growth, outstanding customer experience, underlying infrastructure reliability and faster time-to-value
We are Chef – the leader in high-velocity IT automation. We give you a model for automating IT infrastructure and applications that drive self-reliance across your development and operations teams. We are the Chef community. We are tens of thousands strong. We are helping your businesses become faster, safer and more flexible, so you win in today's 24×7 digital economy. Join our movement today.
DevOps monitoring and IT analytics. We've been doing this for years, for some of the largest websites in the world. If the technology didn't exist, we built it.
Meet and network in an intimate setting with industry peers and attendees from all over the tech industry, as well as from the media and publishing sectors.
With a rock star's presence, a storyteller's gift and a PhD in engineering physics, award-winning rocket scientist, Adam Steltzner is simultaneously recognized as one of NASA’s most brilliant engineers and most unique individuals.
With a unique, exciting and inspiring narrative, Steltzner discusses the power of human curiosity, the importance of fostering a culture of collaborative innovation and proves that with the "Right Kind of Crazy," we can significantly expand boundaries and achieve the impossible. His insight and journey are captured in his book, The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership and High Stakes Innovation, released in 2016.
Gaylord National Resort is the cornerstone of the 300 acre, National Harbor waterfront entertainment district, located 8 miles south of Washington DC. The resort offers visitors fine dining and casual restaurants, unique shopping experiences, an indoor pool, and 20,000 square foot spa and fitness center.
Give your getaway some character with The DreamWorks Experience at Gaylord National! Grab the family and make your Surge attendance a getaway, where you can experience new and exciting interactive adventures with the beloved characters from such DreamWorks Animation films as Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and Madagascar.
Gaylord National is just a 15-minute drive from Reagan National Airport (DCA) and a 45-minute drive from both Dulles (IAD) and Baltimore Washington International (BWI) Airports. Shuttle and car service are available from either airport to the hotel.
Gaylord National is just 15 minutes due south of Washington, D.C. — right off the Capital Beltway (I-95/I-495) — making it an easy drive from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia areas as well.
OmniTI is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone. Harassment may include but is not limited to offensive verbal comments, sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, unwelcome following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention. Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the conference organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the conference.
If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of conference staff immediately; conference staff will be happy to provide escorts or otherwise assist attendees to feel safe for the duration of the conference. We expect participants to follow these rules at all conference venues and conference-related social events. Conference staff can be identified by special badges.
