After watching the talks at Monitorama for a few years, I finally have the chance to attend this year and share my insights on serverless observability on Wednesday. Day 1 was great (despite my massive jet lag!), and the talks were mostly focused on the human side of monitoring. Of the talks two stood out …
Simplifying things in our daily lives “Life is complicated… but we use simple abstractions to deal with it.” – Adrian Cockcroft When people say “it’s too complicated”, what they usually mean is “there are too many moving parts and I can’t figure out what it’s going to do next, that I haven’t figured out an …
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So OSCON came and went, and whilst I haven’t seen the recording for any of the sessions, the keynotes (and a bunch of interviews) are available on YouTube. Unlike most conferences, the OSCON keynotes are really short (average 10-15 mins each) and having watched all the published keynote sessions here are my top picks. Simon Wardley – …
This year’s PolyConf is over and although it was my first time at this conference and I didn’t know too many people going in I had such a great time and learnt so much I’ll definitely be back in the near future. Recording of the talks are slowly appearing on their YouTube channel, so keep …
Bryan Hunter has been responsible for organising the FP track at NDC conferences as well as a few others and the quality of the tracks have been consistently good. The FP track for this year’s NDC Oslo was exceptional and every talk has had a full house. And this year Bryan actually kicked off the …
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Time flies when you’re having fun, and we’re already into the second half of 2015! On a personal level, it’s been a great 6 months, I have spoken at 10 conferences in as many cities and as you read this post I’m at Polyconf in Poznan! The great thing about being at so many conferences …
This year’s version of NDC Oslo has a strong security theme throughout,and one of Troy Hunt’s talks – 50 Shades of AppSec – was one of the top-rated talks at the conference based on attendee feedbacks. Sadly I missed the talk whilst at the conference but having just watched it on Vimeo it left me …
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I attended the Functional Programming eXchange 15 last Thursday and it was a thoroughly enjoyable day. Don’t worry if you weren’t one of the lucky 100 or so that made it, most of the talks are available online on SkillsMatter’s website, and here’s a high level summary of a couple of the talks. Games and …
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This talk by Kyle Kingsbury (aka @aphyr on twitter) was my favourite at CraftConf, and gave us an update on the state of consistency with MongoDB, Elasticsearch and Aerospike. Kyle opened the talk by talking about how we so often build applications on top of databases, queues, streams, etc. and that these systems we …
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This talk by Richard Rodger (of nearForm) was my favourite at this year’s CodeMotion conference in Rome, where he talked about why we need to change the way we think about monitoring when it comes to measuring micro-services. TL; DR Identify invariants in your system and use them to measure the health of your …
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