Slides

Build A Serverless Data Pipeline


CloudConf 2018
I’m giving this a couple of times in April: this version is from CloudConf 2018 in Turin where a great crowd asked some really good questions after my talk.

Slides

Road Trip Through Database Country


GrumpyConf, March 2018
I gave this talk at the excellent GrumpyConf in/near Toronto, giving an overview of the various different types of databases and some advice on when they’re useful.

Slides

Working With Webhooks


PHP UK, February 2018
Gave this talk to a packed room at the one and only PHP UK conference. Webhooks are such a simple idea and I hope that I enabled a bunch more developers to use them in their own applications.

Joind.in comments: https://joind.in/event/php-uk-conference-2018/working-with-webhooks#comments

Article

Three Great Serverless Use Cases


IBM Watson Data Lab, January 2018
https://medium.com/ibm-watson-data-lab/three-great-serverless-use-cases-cd22d44aeb29 – I keep using these same examples in my talks and in conversation, so I thought I should write them down somewhere.
Article

Building A Serverless Data Pipeline


IBM Watson Data Lab, November 2017
This time: the blog edition! https://medium.com/ibm-watson-data-lab/building-a-serverless-data-pipeline-8be2325f0d9a I hope this is a bit easier to read than perhaps watching a talk video or something.