FULTON, Md., Sept. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- OmniTI, a provider of web infrastructures and applications for companies requiring scalable, high-performance, mission critical solutions, today announced the final speakers' lineup for its Surge 2016: The Scalability and Performance Conference which will be held September 21-23, 2016 at the Gaylord National Harbor, just outside of Washington, D.C.
Surge will feature keynote speaker, Adam Steltzner, (NASA) who will speak to the conference on Thursday, September 22 at 9:00am. His talk, The Right Kind of Crazy, will make you believe you can achieve the impossible.
Additional Surge speakers and session topics include:
Hooman Beheshti, Fastly, "HTTP/2: what no one is telling you"
Tanusree McCabe, Sevatec, "Scaling Resilient Cloud Infrastructure"
Bethany Macri, Etsy, "Scaling Infrastructure at Etsy"
Abel Mathew, Backtrace, "Post-mortem Debugging: could you be the one?"
Joe Crobak, United States Digital Service, "Scaling Digital Services in the Government"
OmniTI also announced that this year's program includes free training for Habitat, the new application automation system from the folks at Chef, on the first day of the conference, Wednesday, September 21.
This workshop will provide attendees with the knowledge of how to package and run applications with Habitat. At the end of this workshop attendees will understand Habitat's packaging technology, how to package an existing application with Habitat, the benefits of the Habitat studio, how the Habitat supervisor works to provides application focused automation, and how to run applications using Habitat. Seating is limited; interested parties are encouraged to register early.
"We are thrilled to announce the 2016 lineup of speakers, including speakers from Netflix, Uber, Basecamp, and Microsoft." said Robert Treat, CEO of OmniTI, the organizers of Surge. "With the addition of Habitat training, Surge continues to offer industry leading content at a fraction of the cost of other conferences in this space. It really is a great value for folks interested in learning firsthand insights and best practices from today's brightest minds in the fields of Scalability, Web Operations, and DevOps."
Full program details, including a link to register, can be found at https://surge.omniti.com/2016. For updates on the Surge program, including full schedule, events and all speakers, be sure to check out the Surge website, or you can follow @surgecon on Twitter.
Sponsorship Opportunities Still Available
Want to be part of Surge? There are a limited number of sponsorship packages available offering sponsors visibility through the conference website, in social media communications, and other promotional material leading up to the conference, and during the conference itself. Please contact Holly Beer at [email protected] for more information; or visit https://surge.omniti.com/2016/sponsor/ to become a sponsor online!
About OmniTI
For companies experiencing issues associated with growth and scalability of their customer-facing systems, OmniTI is the leading Web Scalability and Performance provider using a cross-disciplinary approach to achieve unparalleled levels of web, database, and operational performance, enabling revenue growth, outstanding customer experiences, underlying infrastructure reliability, and faster time-to-market.
Contact Information:
Holly Beer, Senior Marketing Manager, OmniTI
[email protected]
240.646.0770 ext 218
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