Ben Smith
where else to find them
website:https://binji.github.io
website:https://stripe.com
github:binji
bluesky:semaforben.bsky.social
linkedin:benjasl
what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- RSAC Conference2 editions2021–2022
- RubyConf Au2 editions2013–2014
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on a stage with
- Justin B. Smithonce
- Nayeema Razaonce
who talks about the same things
- Aaron Bedra14 talks
- Sarah Allen19 talks
- Sunil Pai14 talks
- Benedek Gagyi8 talks
- Joshua Corman27 talks
- Phil Nash107 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching agents to pay: what devs need to know | AndroidMakers by droidcon 2026 | 2026-04-09 |
Claim: agent-driven purchases convert about four times better (≈3.1% → ≈12%), enabled by Stripe integration using Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP) and Shared… | ||
| Building Low-Code Applications with Serverless Workflows | GOTO Amsterdam 2023 | 2023-06-13 |
AWS Step Functions used to replace Lambda glue: choose Standard vs Express (1 year vs 5 minute durations, exactly-once vs at-least-once), and optimize cost — a… | ||
| New News | DLD Munich 23 | 2023-01-12 |
Semafor launches a global news product that separates facts from analysis and bundles original reporting with curated alternative perspectives and external… | ||
| Never Waste a Crisis: Identifying and Transforming Digital Risk into Reward | RSAC 2022 | 2022-06-06 |
Presenter: Ben Smith, Field CTO, RSA
You’ve heard it before: the pandemic changed nearly every aspect of how we live, work and play, exposing businesses and… | ||
| Best practices for building interactive applications with Lambda | AWS Summit San Francisco 2022 | 2022-04-20 |
Practical guidance for building interactive backends: use AWS Lambda with API Gateway or the new Lambda function URLs (HTTPS, SigV4 IAM or custom auth, CORS… | ||
| How to Ruin your SOC in 5 Easy Steps | RSAC 2021 | 2021-05-17 |
Five actionable failure modes: rely only on SIEM logs instead of logs + network + endpoint visibility (use XDR); keep incident procedures in outdated binders… | ||
| Modelling complex business domains with events | Alchemy Conf 2021 | 2021-05-14 |
Claims that complex domains become manageable by modelling everything as immutable domain events and building an event-sourced Elixir app around them. Uses… | ||
| The New LAMP Stack Is Serverless | Forum PHP 2020 | 2020-10-22 |
Shows how to replace a LAMP VM stack with Lambda + API Gateway + Aurora + RDS Proxy, demonstrating that PHP (including Laravel/Symfony) runs on Lambda via a… | ||
| Applied WebAssembly: Compiling and Running C++ in Your Web Browser | CppCon 2019 | 2019-09-15 |
Ported Clang and LLD to WebAssembly so a full C++ compile+link pipeline runs client-side in the browser, using a WASI-like capability layer, an in-memory… | ||
| An event-driven approach to building Elixir applications | Code Elixir LDN 2019 | 2019-07-18 |
A demo application called Segment Challenge records Strava webhooks, fetches activity data with Phoenix/Ecto, and originally updated leaderboards in Postgres… | ||
| WebAssembly and Node.js | NodeConf EU 2017 | 2017-11-05 |
Node 8 runs WebAssembly and the demo compiles a C compression library to wasm with emscripten then loads it in Node, exposing a decoder via a small JS shim… | ||
| WebAssembly: birth of a virtual ISA | Full Stack Fest 2016 | 2016-09-05 |
Claims WebAssembly is a portable, size‑ and load‑time‑efficient compilation target for C++, rust and similar languages that runs inside the browser and shares… | ||
| How I Architected My Big Rails App For Success | RubyConf AU 2014 | 2014-02-19 |
Claims an eight‑month Rails rebuild succeeds by breaking the app into in‑repo rails engines with namespaced tables and migrations kept inside each engine (via… | ||
| How I architected my big Rails app for success! | Rocky Mountain Ruby 2013 | 2013-09-25 |
Claims a single Rails app split into web and domain engines with four engines plus one gem handling SMS, uses namespaced tables and keeps migrations inside… | ||
| Hacking With Gems | RubyConf AU 2013 | 2013-02-20 |
Demonstrates four malicious gems that actually harvest plaintext passwords from Rails requests, expose a live DB console, exfiltrate source code (attempted but… | ||
| Hacking with Gems | Aloha RubyConf 2012 | 2012-10-08 |
Shows concrete malicious gems: awesome Rails flash messages exfiltrates cleartext emails and passwords to a web service and writes them into public… | ||
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