Talks

Videos

Conference talks & presentations on microservices, SRE, observability, and engineering leadership.

CONFERENCE TALKS

Datadog Dash Conference 2020: Beyond Rewriting from Scratch

Uses observability to modernize legacy systems lacking tests, sharing practical engineering lessons (full talk transcript available).

Conf42 SRE 2023: "Leveraging Incidents to Align Platform and Product Engineering"

Focuses on using production incidents to bridge gaps between platform and product engineering, with observability and microservices insights from Nextdoor.

SF Rails Meetup (January 2016): "What if I told you... You're already doing Microservices"

Covers how a Rails app organically grew into a Microservice Architecture, explaining patterns that emerged (starting with adding a Rails engine) and how teams can implement these tricks with existing tools.

RailsConf 2015: "5 Ways We Screwed Up Microservices" (Lightning Talk)

Part of the full RailsConf 2015 Lightning Talks session sharing lessons about microservices failures from experience at Yammer and Oracle.

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