Conference talks and podcast appearances on platform engineering, APIs, developer experience, and building great software.
I was a guest on Speakeasy's Request // Response podcast exploring the tradeoffs between GraphQL and REST, API management challenges like query complexity and versioning, and how LLMs could reshape developer productivity. I talked about my experience at both OpsLevel and Shopify.
As platform engineers, automation is at the heart of all we do and production readiness should be no different. In this talk, we'll cover how to successfully adopt production readiness and service maturity at your organization.
Exploring the three pillars of effective Internal Developer Portals: visibility, standards, and developer self-service. I discuss how automation enables these pillars to improve software delivery and operational efficiency.
Introduction to building apps using Shopify's newly (at the time) released GraphQL Admin API. I managed the team that built and launched this API.
In this talk, we'll discuss how to improve the overall resilience of your systems and prevent outages by testing in production. We will review four different tools and processes implemented at PagerDuty that test various dimensions of its production systems: Failure Friday (chaos experiments), end-to-end testing, end-to-end provider testing, and canary deploys. For each of these, we will discuss their origin story, their tooling and functionality, pitfalls to watch out for, learnings we've gathered, and how they've measurably improved reliability.