title	conference	date
Platform Engineering for Developers, Architects & the Rest of Us (AI Agents)	LDX3 London 2026	2026-06-02
AI is raising the stakes for platform engineering. Learn how to build self-service platforms that support developers and AI systems safely. Talk on
Platform Engineering for Developers, Architects & the Rest of Us	GOTO Copenhagen 2025	2025-09-29
Argues platform engineering must be API-first product work with a three-layer model: application choreography, platform orchestration, and infrastructure… Talk on
Platform Engineering for Software Developers and Architects (Redux)	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025	2025-04-01
Argues a three‑layer platform: a Backstage‑style application portal, a platform orchestration middle layer (cratics, Crossplane, Argo/Flux) and infrastructure… Talk on
Testing Cloud Apps: Mocks vs. Service Virtualization vs. Remocal Tools	AppDeveloperCon Europe 2024	2024-03-19
Inner dev loop slows as services grow and there are clear inflection points around 5–10 services and again near 50 where local strategies fail; unit tests use… Talk on
The Busy Platform Engineers Guide to API Gateways	GOTO Amsterdam 2023	2023-06-13
Choosing or migrating an API gateway is a type 1 decision because gateways sit on the business-critical hot path, are sticky, and often incur contract lock-in… Talk on
Microservice Testing Techniques	Craft Conference 2023	2023-05-18
Explains concrete testing choices: use mocks for fast unit feedback, use TestContainers to spin real databases inside tests, and use Hoverfly service… Talk on
Emissary + Linkerd Resilience Patterns: Rate Limits, Retries & Timeouts	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022	2022-10-24
Demo builds a tiny three‑service app behind Emissary (edge) and Linkerd (service mesh), with services intentionally failing 20% of requests and occasional >1s… Talk on
From Kubernetes to PaaS to … Err, What’s Next?	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022	2022-05-16
Argues that the next layer after Kubernetes is a developer control plane — a platform treated as a product with staffed platform teams, golden paths and UX-led… Talk on
From Kubernetes to PaaS to Developer Control Planes	Cloud Native DevX Day North America 2021	2021-10-12
Argues that as teams adopt full‑cycle development ownership, a new developer control plane layer is needed on top of Kubernetes to restore the PaaS simplicity… Talk on
Panel: Emerging Trends in Cloud Engineering: Platform as product, APIs, self-service & more	Crossplane Community Day Europe 2021	2021-05-04
Predictions center on concrete shifts: teams build Heroku‑like developer platforms that sit atop Kubernetes using CRDs and operators, Crossplane for infra and… Panel on
Cloud Native Development Without the Toil	GOTOpia February 2021	2021-02-09
Argues safety-first delivery unlocks speed and shows concrete practices: use artifact syncing (Skaffold or Tilt) to push class-level changes to a remote… Talk on
The Past, Present and Future of Cloud Native API Gateways	GOTOpia Europe 2020	2020-09-15
Survey of 25 years of edge evolution claims that architecture and workflow — not buzzwords — drive gateway choices, and gives three concrete Kubernetes… Talk on
Intro: Telepresence	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019	2019-11-18
Telepresence swaps a deployment with a two-way proxy so a locally running process receives real ingress traffic and calls cluster services (demo: swapped the… Talk on
Cloud Native Communication: Using Ambassador and Consul Connect with Java Apps	JAX London 2019	2019-10-07
Overview of integrating Ambassador API gateway and Consul Connect service mesh with Java apps, using Envoy sidecars on Kubernetes, tradeoffs, and real… Talk on
In Search of the Perfect Cloud Native Developer Experience	Agile on the Beach 2019	2019-07-11
Real consulting lessons: teams cut lead time by using telepresence and Squash proxies to develop locally against a remote Kubernetes cluster, adopt the Flux… Talk on
Securing Cloud Native Communication, From End User to Service	KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019	2019-05-20
Conference demonstrates concrete setup: Ambassador + Consul Connect configures Envoy proxies to enforce mTLS between edge and services and uses SMI intentions… Talk on
AdoptOpenJDK: Lessons Learned from the New Build Farm for Java Itself	Oracle Code One 2018	2018-10-22
Community-run build farm produces nightly OpenJDK binaries for multiple JDK versions, OSes and JVMs (HotSpot and OpenJ9) after being assembled in under a year… Talk on
Continuous Delivery with Containers: The Good, Bad, & Ugly	Agile on the Beach 2018	2018-07-12
Containers become the single binary pushed through CI/CD and must be tested, labeled and versioned; Docker images + Kubernetes orchestration change runtime… Talk on
Continuous Delivery with Containers: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	Codemotion Rome 2018	2018-04-13
Continuous delivery must treat the container image as image-as-single-binary and run tests against that exact image through the pipeline; use Docker… Talk on
Continuous Delivery with Containers: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	Devoxx Belgium 2017	2017-11-06
A Jenkins-based pipeline builds Java apps into a single image artifact (multistage Docker builds), pushes images to registries (Docker Hub, JFrog, Nexus), and… Talk on
The Seven Deadly Sins of Microservices	Devoxx US 2017	2017-03-21
Seven concrete anti‑patterns and actionable fixes: chasing the latest tech like Docker/Kubernetes or Cassandra without evaluation; avoiding service… Talk on
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