Liam Westley
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- NDC Oslo8 editions2018–2025
- NDC London2 editions2021–2026
- NDC Melbourne2 editions2022–2025
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- Adam Furmanek31 talks
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- Gail Ollis8 talks
- Heidi Waterhouse49 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Anatomy of an Incident | NDC London 2026 | 2026-01-26 |
A bad CrowdStrike update ships an old data file so a kernel‑mode C++ routine expects 21 vs 20 array items, triggers blue screens across Windows hosts for about… | ||
| Anatomy of an Incident | NDC Oslo 2025 | 2025-05-19 |
CrowdStrike’s Falcon update ships a bad config that overflows a C++ driver and blue‑screens Windows, causing a roughly 1.5 hour outage across airlines, rail… | ||
| My Worst Code Was My Best Code | NDC Melbourne 2025 | 2025-04-29 |
This talk was recorded at NDC Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia. #ndcmelbourne #ndcconferences #developer #softwaredeveloper
Attend the next NDC… | ||
| Geek Out - How television led to streaming video on your mobile phone | CPH DevFest 2024 | 2024-08-26 |
Explains how TV moves from mechanical 30‑line experiments to modern phones by naming formats, tools and bottlenecks: 405/525/625 line standards, NTSC 29.97 vs… | ||
| Geek Out - How television led to streaming video on your mobile phone | NDC Oslo 2024 | 2024-06-10 |
History and mechanics of TV from 405-line system (broadcast for 48 years until 1985) through CRTs with three electron guns and shadow masks to three-tube… | ||
| If I (only) Had A Hammer | NDC Oslo 2024 | 2024-06-10 |
Copilot trains on public GitHub and often suggests code verbatim, raising copyright and supply‑chain risks where adversaries could poison popular repos; it… | ||
| My Worst Code Was My Best Code | NDC Porto 2023 | 2023-10-16 |
Shows concrete hacks: Corel Draw macros drive a Windows 3.1 broadcast card to render live weather maps; a VB6 pause-and-continue workflow edits running… | ||
| My Worst Code Was My Best Code | NDC Oslo 2023 | 2023-05-22 |
Builds a Windows 3.1 weather pipeline that sends PostScript over RS232 to a broadcast graphics card by driving CorelDraw with SendKeys and macros, cooks VB… | ||
| The Curious Incident in your Software in the Day-Time | NDC Oslo 2022 | 2022-09-26 |
Your day was going so well, and then your cloud provider has just had a service outage, or you find a serious software bug that might be causing data loss or… | ||
| The Curious Incident in your Software in the Day Time | NDC Melbourne 2022 | 2022-06-20 |
Advocates a concrete incident plan: centralised reporting in Slack workflows with dedicated incident channels, Slack calls for auditable timelines, email… | ||
| Keynote: Two roads diverged in the woods | NDC Oslo 2021 | 2021-11-29 |
Career story lists concrete choices and outcomes: builds an in‑house Sky News weather system in Visual Basic 1.0 running on Windows 3.1; co‑founds a software… | ||
| Little Fluffy Clouds | NDC London 2021 | 2021-01-25 |
Azure-first migration uses Azure SQL with geo-replication and failover groups to get SQL Azure failover in under ten minutes and point-in-time backups up to 35… | ||
| A Tale Of Four Startups | NDC Oslo 2020 | 2020-06-08 |
Four startup case studies across 20 years: an interactive-TV VC spinout that spends money on set‑top demos, files patents, builds an EPG and then folds after… | ||
| A Tale Of Four Startups | NDC Sydney 2019 | 2019-10-14 |
Covers four startups: an interactive-TV venture that dies in the 2001 dot‑com bust after building set‑top demos and chasing a BT video‑over‑IP RFP; a tiny… | ||
| What is the point of Microsoft? 3.0 | NDC Oslo 2019 | 2019-06-17 |
Microsoft pivots from Windows-only to cloud and open source, hitting about $1.02 trillion market cap in Dec 2018 while Azure pushes into infrastructure (over… | ||
| "Don't Make Me Feel Stupid" - A. User | DevDays Europe 2019 | 2019-05-14 |
Argues that UI decisions must avoid making users feel stupid and gives concrete fixes not platitudes: Outlook shutdown dialog forces a useless “Yes” choice… | ||
| Give It a REST – Tips for Designing and Consuming Public API’s | DevDays Europe 2019 | 2019-05-14 |
Huddle documents a concrete API story: migration to microservices breaks mobile apps until a lightweight Python BFF mimics the old endpoints and lets platforms… | ||
| Give it a REST - Tips for designing and consuming public API's | NDC Porto 2019 | 2019-02-26 |
Huddle describes practical REST lessons from a public API used by ~30 customers while migrating from a monolith to microservices: use BFF facades to keep old… | ||
| Give it a REST - Tips for designing and consuming public API's | NDC Oslo 2018 | 2018-06-11 |
Huddle spends five years evolving a public HTTP API to support microservices, async work and clients on web, iOS, Android, Windows and OS X. Concrete patterns… | ||
| This is not the Async you are looking for | NDC Sydney 2016 | 2016-08-01 |
Explains exactly what Async/Await does and does not do: it helps with IO-bound work like CopyFileAsync with streams but not unlimited CPU parallelism… | ||
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