Conference talks and meetups. Mostly about infrastructure, reliability, on-call, and more recently AI-assisted development.
2026
How building with AI can double the throughput of your engineering team
ShipItCon, Dublin — Sep 4 slides
How Building with AI Can Double the Throughput of Your Engineering Team
AI Engineer Europe, London — Apr 8–10
How Building with AI Can Double the Throughput of Your Engineering Team
DX Summit — 2026
How building with AI can double the throughput of your engineering team
case Conference, Berlin — Jan 14
2025
Writing up your most embarrassing failures for the world to see is good, actually
SEV0 London, London — 2025 recording
Monolith-ifying perfectly good microservices
LeadDev LDX3, London — Jun 25 recording
2023
Monolith-ifying perfectly good microservices
Rails World, Amsterdam — Oct 2023
2022
On-call shouldn't be a chore (with Hannah Healy)
ShipItCon — Sep 2022 recording
2019
Intercom and AWS: Building a company founded on engineering principles
AWS re:Invent, Las Vegas — Dec 2019 slides
Volunteers, Not Conscripts: Fixing Out-of-Hours On-Call
Turing Fest, Edinburgh — Aug 28 recording
Updating Software in Humans
ShipItCon — 2019 slides
2018
Volunteers, Not Conscripts: Fixing Out-of-Hours On-Call
Datadog Dash, New York — Jul 12 recording
Volunteers, Not Conscripts: Fixing Out-of-Hours On-Call
DevOpsDays Galway, Galway — 2018 slides
2016
What SRE Means in a Start-up
SREcon16 Europe, Dublin — Jul 2016
2015
Migrating customer data from MongoDB to self-managed infrastructure on EC2
All Your Base — 2015 recording
Do what matters, not what's shiny and new
Intercom — Jul 2015 recording