Special Thanks


Nokia is sponsoring food at the event.



Nestoria will be sponsoring drinks at ScaleCampUK.

"Nestoria is a vertical search engine. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to find UK property."



Venda will be sponsoring food at the event.

"Venda delivers a highly scalable, flexible and secure eCommerce platform to hundreds of the world's major brands and retailers."



Lucid Imagination is sponoring drinks after the event.

"Lucid Imaging is the first commercial company exclusively dedicated to the Apache Lucene open source technology."



Skills Matter is our Media Sponsor.

"Skills Matter organises free events, training courses, conferences and  publishes podcasts on innovation."

A one-day event for and by people who care about web performance and scalability

WHAT: A performance and scalability unconference
WHEN: Friday, 4 December, 2009 - Starting at 10am
WHERE: The Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU
WHO: Performance and scalability professionals
HOW: The event is now oversubscribed and registration is closed.

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How does it work?

We want people who will share their experiences.  Come along and get involved, whether you are giving a talk about some area of interest, or joining a roundtable discussion.  

This unconference is run for you, by you, and needs you.

What should I expect?

Like any unconference, the day will start off with an empty grid of sessions and we rely on you to suggest and run sessions that you are interested in.  Some suggested topics:
  • Practical experience stories with Q&A. For example, we used memcached at the Guardian and although everyone told us it rocked, we found it difficult to manage
  • Roundtables. For example, a database architecture roundtable, or NoSQL roundtable, or a writing effective JavaScript discussion.
  • Presentations on a specialist subject.  For example, managing with Puppet, hosting in the cloud, large-scale analytics with Hadoop

Who is coming?

People participating are coming from companies such as: Google, Flickr, BBC, Yahoo!, ThoughtWorks, Mind Candy, Glasses Direct, Cloudsoft, Smarkets, Claranet Group, Nestoria and several others.

What do I need?

You wont need anything, coffee and lunch are provided.

We recommend that you bring a laptop and any presentation materials that you might need.  There are projectors available in some rooms, but not all.


Can anyone do a logo for the event?  Any ideas appreciated.  Send logos to Michael Brunton-Spall (michael.brunton-spall@guardian.co.uk).