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.
Working With Webhooks
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
Three Great Serverless Use Cases
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.
Deploy to IBM Cloud With TravisCI
I run a bunch of stuff using TravisCI and wrote down my approach and scripts for integrating it with GitHub and the IBM Cloud as a deployment target. https://medium.com/ibm-watson-data-lab/deploy-to-ibm-cloud-with-travisci-e69ae2cbf647
Building A Serverless Data Pipeline
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.
OfflineFirst Apps with PouchDB and CouchDB
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 :)