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.
Slides

OfflineFirst Apps with PouchDB and CouchDB


Frontend North
I’ve been really enjoying the growth of PWAs and was very pleased to be a speaker at Frontend North in Sheffield. A great crowd and a local event for me :)

Slides

The Future of Functions


CodeMotion Milan, November 2017
This is me taking my first IBM-sponsored keynote slot! CodeMotion Milan was a lovely place to start and I talked about how serverless technology is brilliant and builds on a very familiar technology feature: functions. As usual for the more high-level talks, the slides don’t make much sense without the talk, but there are some resources at the end: