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Past Presentations
Drivetribe: A Social Network on Streams
Drivetribe is the world's biggest motoring destination, as envisioned by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May. Built on top of the Event Sourcing/CQRS pattern, the Drivetribe platform uses Apache Kafka as its source of truth and Apache Flink as its processing backbone. This talk aims...
Build Node.js APIs using Serverless
Serverless lets you focus on coding and testing instead of provisioning infrastructure, configuring web servers, debugging your configuration, managing security settings, and all the drudgery normally associated with getting an app up and running. In this session with, you’ll discover how to...
The Evolving Practice of Security
As technology has evolved from on-premise data centres to cloud native systems, the practices of managing that technology has evolved giving us benefits like continuous integration and deployment and configuration as code and cloud orchestration platforms. But security practices have generally...
The Good the Bad the Ugly: Making Teams Perform Better
A case study on how a team of engineers and data scientists worked together for a year and became high performing by embracing change, improving day to day practices, breaking the walls between disciplines and overcoming many communication (and other!) challenges together.
Improving Life in Smaller, Heterogeneous Projects
Many presentations on Developer Experience focus on a single large ongoing project, or a particular methodology or toolset. The consulting world faces a multitude of fixed length projects of various sizes, with an astoundingly diverse array of constraints and givens. How do we ensure a good...
How Condé Nast Succeeds by a Culture That Embraces Failure
Systems architectures are increasingly diverse to serve the growing demands for scalability, fault tolerance, isolation, and extensibility. But the compromise is ever complex software to operate and maintain often with no single shared view of entire design. This is especially true with the...
Interviews
The Present and Future of Serverless Observability
What is the focus of your work today?
At the moment, I’m building the backend services for a real-time multiplayer game on mobile, including an inhouse networking stack that will be deployed globally and supports both TCP and reliable UDP. We’re still doing a lot of tuning, and would put an early alpha build in front of users for external validation on our networking...
Read Full InterviewKeep Calm and Secure Your CI/CD Pipeline
What is the work that you are doing today?
In my day job, I'm the lead security engineer at Photobox. I'm in charge of application security, cloud security and network security within my team. And for Pride in London, I'm the tech lead and the security manager. I take care of the website and the application, manage a team of fifteen developers and implement features...
Read Full InterviewEngineering Culture Revived
What is the focus of your work as CTO at Superbet today?
We are currently building the technology capability for a new global online betting and gaming proposition. My role involves everything from establishing platform direction, new capabilities / teams, ways of working, and influencing our digital business strategy.
Read Full InterviewXDP in Practice: DDoS Mitigation @Cloudflare
What's the main focus of the work that you do today?
I'm currently working in the DDoS mitigation team at Cloudflare London, where I spend my time daily on a few different areas. There are in fact many different tasks to keep the DDoS mitigation pipeline up. Every time we see something new we jump on that and take a look to try to understand what's going on. I also spend some time...
Read Full InterviewHabito: The Purely-Functional Mortgage Broker
Tell me about the work you are doing.
Habito is changing the way mortgages work in the United Kingdom. It's quite a complicated process to work through. About 70% of the market is intermediated, so it's a good place to build a consumer-friendly brand and fix problems like not being able to understand what an appropriate mortgage looks like or how repayments work -- in...
Read Full InterviewHow Condé Nast Succeeds by a Culture That Embraces Failure
Tell me a bit about the work that you do.
I'm the Director of Engineering and Cloud Platforms. I oversee the whole software engineering function at Condé Nast International which is better known for its portfolio of magazines such as Vogue, GQ, Wired, Vanity Fair, Glamour. It's an international company - we have operations in 11 different countries around the world in Asia,...
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