Talks & Videos
Conference sessions, livestreams, tutorials and long conversations — on cloud native networking, developer relations, and the craft of explaining technical things.
- 41
- 2020–2024
- ~19h
- across 39 full recordings
- Talk 19 · Livestream 8 · Tutorial 8 · Conversation 6
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All 41 recordings, most recent first.
- Jun 2023
OrbStack: A Lightweight Alternative for Docker
Shedrack Akintayo
A short, practical look at swapping Docker Desktop for OrbStack on macOS, and what you gain in memory and start-up time.
Tutorial2 min - Nov 2022
Solving the Fixing a Bug Quest
Wilco
A live debugging session working through Wilco's most popular bug-fixing quest end to end.
Livestream56 min - Nov 2022
JavaScript Tooling: The Great Battle of React Build Tools
React Global Online Summit 22.2 · jumps to this segment
Comparing the React build tool landscape on real criteria — speed, configuration cost, and what you actually ship.
Talkfrom 2:38:52 - Nov 2022
A Talk with Sheddy
Fortune Ikechi
A long conversation with Fortune Ikechi on positioning for remote roles, the STAR interview principle, and relocating as an engineer.
Conversation31 min - Oct 2022
Solving the Hooks of Change Challenge
Wilco
Working through Wilco's React Hooks challenge live, reasoning about state and effects as the problem unfolds.
Livestream1h 6m - Jun 2022
Approaching Developer Relations in an Open Source Community
Open Source Community Africa
What developer relations means when the product is a foundation-governed open source project rather than a company's SaaS.
Talk17 min - May 2022
Decoupling 101 — Why Decouple, When Not To, Progressive Decoupling
Drupalcamp Belgium
The case for splitting a web application into components, the cases against it, and progressive decoupling as the middle path.
Talk29 min - Apr 2022
Understanding and Approaching Developer Communities in Smaller Regions
DevRel
How to engage developer communities in regions with fewer resources and opportunities — without treating them as an afterthought.
Talk21 min - Feb 2022
The Evolution of Deploying Node on Servers and Platforms
Node Congress 2022
From bare servers to platforms: how Node.js deployment changed, and what each generation of tooling was actually solving.
Talk8 min - Nov 2021
Approaching Developer Relations in an Open Source Community
All Things Open
The long-form version of the open source DevRel talk, delivered at All Things Open.
Talk39 min - Sept 2021
Kickstarting an International Tech Career from Nigeria
Deploy Friday E72 · Platform.sh
Co-hosting a Deploy Friday panel with Samson Goddy and Edidiong Asikpo on building a global tech career from Nigeria.
Conversation1h 0m - Jul 2021
How to Deploy a Node.js Application to Kubernetes with Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry
Deploying a Node.js app to Kubernetes with near-zero configuration, using the cf push experience over cf-for-k8s.
Tutorial5 min - Jul 2021
A Subtle Introduction to Portals in React
JSCAMP 2021
Rendering children into a DOM node outside the parent's hierarchy — what portals solve, and where they quietly break assumptions.
Talk17 min - Jun 2021
Small Teams Making a Big Impact — GOV.UK PaaS
Cloud Foundry
Hosting the GOV.UK PaaS team on how a small group runs a Cloud Foundry platform for hundreds of government departments.
Livestream1h 7m - Jun 2021
Painless Kubernetes with Cloud Foundry
CNCF
Putting a Cloud Foundry abstraction over Kubernetes so application developers never have to meet the complexity underneath.
Talk28 min - Jun 2021
Cloud Native Dev-to-Deploy Pipelines with GitHub Actions
GitHub
An Open Source Friday session with Brian Douglas, wiring a GitHub repo to a Cloud Foundry instance and automating deploys to Kubernetes.
Livestream22 min - May 2021
Non-profit Open Source Orgs
JAMstack Radio, Ep. 78 · Heavybit
A JAMstack Radio episode on how non-profit foundations steward open source projects, and what that changes for developer advocacy.
Conversation23 min - Apr 2021
Cloud Native CI/CD Pipelines on Kubernetes with Tekton and Paketo
Cloud Foundry
Building pipelines with Tekton and Paketo Buildpacks, with Kashyap Vedurmudi of VMware Tanzu joining as guest.
Livestream59 min - Apr 2021
How to Deploy Automatically to Kubernetes with Travis CI
Cloud Foundry
A short walkthrough wiring Travis CI to a Kubernetes cluster running cf-for-k8s, so every commit ships.
Tutorial8 min - Apr 2021
Automate Deployments to Kubernetes with CircleCI
Cloud Foundry
Connecting a GitHub codebase to CircleCI and watching each check-in build and update the live application.
Tutorial8 min - Apr 2021
Kubernetes CI/CD Made Easy with Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry
Cutting the complexity out of automated Kubernetes deployment using Travis, Jenkins and CircleCI.
Livestream1h 8m - Feb 2021
How to Set Up Simple CI/CD Pipelines That Deploy to Kubernetes
Cloud Foundry
Two approaches to continuous deployment side by side — GitLab Runner and GitHub Actions — both landing on Kubernetes.
Livestream1h 2m - Feb 2021
JavaScript Apps on Kubernetes, Simplified Using Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry
How the shift in computing infrastructure landed on JavaScript developers, and what a PaaS layer gives back to them.
Livestream1h 1m - Dec 2020
How to Deploy a Django App to Kubernetes with Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry
A quick take on getting a Django application onto a Kubernetes cluster running cf-for-k8s.
Tutorial5 min - Dec 2020
Meet the New Cloud Foundry Foundation Developer Advocates
TFiR
A TFiR conversation on what a developer advocate at a foundation actually does for new users and the existing community.
Conversation15 min - Nov 2020
Understanding and Approaching Developer Communities in Smaller Regions
DevRel/Asia 2020
The DevRel/Asia edition of the talk on building developer communities outside the well-resourced hubs.
Talk24 min - Nov 2020
Deploy a Static Site to Kubernetes with Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry
Getting a Gatsby static site onto Kubernetes without touching a manifest.
Tutorial3 min - Oct 2020
How to Deploy a Full Stack Application on Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry
Deploying a Node.js and MongoDB application, and binding a database service so the data actually persists.
Tutorial13 min - Oct 2020
DevRel/Asia 2020 Interview
DevRel/Asia 2020
A pre-conference interview on developer relations work and what to expect from the DevRel/Asia session.
Conversation14 min - Oct 2020
Open Source in Africa
All Things Open (Keynote)
An All Things Open keynote on the state of open source participation across Africa, and what the ecosystem still gets wrong about it.
Talk15 min - Oct 2020
Open Source in Africa
FLOSSK
The FLOSSK edition of the Open Source in Africa talk, with more room for the community-building detail.
Talk28 min - Oct 2020
Documenting Your Open Source Projects
GitHub Africa Virtual Meetup · jumps to this segment
A GitHub Africa meetup session on what documentation an open source project owes its first-time contributors.
Talkfrom 1:00:23 - Oct 2020
Cloud Foundry Summit Europe — Virtual Platform Tour
Cloud Foundry Summit Europe
A short guided tour of the Cloud Foundry Summit Europe virtual venue.
Tutorial6 min - Aug 2020
Developer Advocate at the Cloud Foundry Foundation
Burak
An interview tracing the path from college, through software engineering, into developer advocacy and technical writing.
Conversation19 min - Jun 2020
JavaScript Tooling — The Evolution and Future of JS & Front-end Build Tools
GitNation
Where front-end build tooling came from, why each generation replaced the last, and where it was heading next.
Talk11 min
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