Add Gerrit performance talk
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| 10:45 | [First-class Gerrit CI integration with Checks](sessions/first-class-ci-integration.md) |
| 11:45 | Gerrit goes multi-site |
| 12:45 | Lunch & Networking |
-| 14:00 | [Labels & Prolog-less submit rules](sessions/labels-and-prolog-less-submit-rules.md) |
+| 14:00 | [Labels & Prolog-less submit rules](sessions/labels-and-prolog-less-submit-rules.md) |
| 15:00 | Gerrit at Volvo Cars |
| 16:00 | Break & Networking |
-| 16:30 | Using Zuul CI with Gerrit |
-| 17:30 | End of Day 1 |
+| 16:30 | [Towards a lightning-fast Gerrit](sessions/performance.md) |
+| 17:15 | Using Zuul CI with Gerrit |
+| 17:45 | End of Day 1 |
| 19:00 | Dinner - Celebrations for Gerrit v3.0 |
### Friday 30th August
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+# Towards a lightning-fast Gerrit
+
+Gerrit users expect their code-review tool of choice to be fast. Rightfully so!
+
+In this talk, I will speak about what performance improvements were made in the
+last ~1.5 years and give an outlook of what is to come. We will go over the
+methodology that we follow, talk about the metrics that get collected and how
+impact is assessed.
+
+We will close off with some hands-on tips on how to tune your Gerrit instance
+especially with respect to an upgrade to NoteDb in Gerrit 3.0.
+
+This talk will be given by video conference.
+
+*[Patrick Hiesel, Google](../speakers.md#hiesel)*
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[Tuleap](https://www.tuleap.org/) which gives him the chance to work daily
with Gerrit.
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### James E. Blair - Red Hat {#corvus}
James is a core member of the OpenStack project infrastructure team
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the real world. He has been active in free software for quite some
time, and has previously worked for UC Berkeley and the Free Software
Foundation.
+
+### Patrick Hiesel - Google {#hiesel}
+
+[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickhiesel/)
+
+Patrick joined Google and the Gerrit project in 2016 working primarily on the
+backend. He is a Gerrit maintainer and a member of the newly formed Engineering
+Steering Committee. Before joining Google, Patrick worked on mobile apps and web
+backends as a freelancer and at another big tech company.
+
+Patrick's main focus is performance and stability. He makes the latency graphs
+go up and the user satisfaction graphs go down. Or was it the other way around?
