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Velocity highlights (video bonus!)
A collection of must-see keynotes from Velocity Santa Clara, with bonus videos of some of the best sessions.
Editor’s note: this post originally appeared on Steve Souders’ blog; it is published here with permission.
We’re in the quiet period between Velocity Santa Clara and Velocity New York. It’s a good time to look back at what we saw and look forward to what we’ll see this September 15-17 in NYC.
Velocity Santa Clara was our biggest show to date. There was more activity across the attendees, exhibitors, and sponsors than I’d experienced at any previous Velocity. A primary measure of Velocity is the quality of the speakers. As always, the keynotes were livestreamed — the people who tuned in were not disappointed. I recommend reviewing all of the keynotes from the Velocity YouTube Playlist. All of them were great, but here’s a collection of some of my favorites.
Virtual Machines, JavaScript and Assembler
Start. Here. Scott Hanselman’s walk through the evolution of the web and cloud computing is informative and hilarious: