Paul Stack
where else to find them
what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- NDC Oslo3 editions2019–2021
- DevConf2 editions2019–2023
- NDC Sydney2 editions2016–2018
all 11 in the filters
on a stage with
- Lynn Langitonce
who talks about the same things
- Kief Morris15 talks
- Robert Hoffmann11 talks
- Rosemary Wang18 talks
- Erwin Staal9 talks
- Gunnar Grosch17 talks
- Eran Bibi10 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Infrastructure as Code | DevDays || DevOps Pro || CyberWiseCon Europe 2025 | 2025-05-20 |
Clear claim: Infrastructure as Code grew from CFEngine (1993) through Puppet/Chef/Ansible to Terraform (2014), Pulumi (2018), CDK and CloudFormation, but now… | ||
| It’s time to rebuild DevOps. | NDC London 2024 | 2024-01-29 |
Argues DevOps needs rebuilding and demonstrates System Initiative: a digital twin simulation for infrastructure that runs live qualifications, models changes… | ||
| It's Time to Rebuild DevOps | DevConf 2023 | 2023-11-08 |
Tooling claim: a web UI that uses a digital twin simulation to calculate real-world effects before applying changes, with drag‑and‑drop topology editing… | ||
| It’s time to rebuild DevOps | stackconf 2023 | 2023-09-13 |
Claims that DevOps needs a rebuild after ~15 years, arguing current tooling creates new silos and a 200% problem (must learn both a DSL and a cloud)… | ||
| APIs for Infrastructure… on steroids | NDC Oslo 2021 | 2021-11-29 |
Live demo shows Pulumi code that deploys an Azure Function in ~1 minute by creating resource group, storage account, blob (zipped function), SAS URL and… | ||
| Infrastructure as Software | Spinnaker Summit 2020 | 2020-10-19 |
Argues that writing infrastructure in general languages (TypeScript Python Go .NET) with Pulumi replaces fragile templates and console clicks by providing… | ||
| .NET: Infrastructure as Software | 4Developers 2020 | 2020-09-14 |
Argues that using real languages for infrastructure yields type checks, testing and reusable APIs and demonstrates this with Pulumi (TypeScript) talking to… | ||
| Infrastructure as Software | NDC Oslo 2020 | 2020-06-08 |
Argues that infrastructure should be written in real languages and shows Pulumi powering that: write infrastructure in TypeScript Python DotNet or Go, using… | ||
| Infrastructure testing - it's a real thing! | DevOpsDays Madrid 2020 | 2020-02-21 |
Demonstrates concrete infra testing: uses Pulumi to write unit, integration and an expanded security-heavy testing pyramid, with examples that assert an S3… | ||
| Can TypeScript really make infrastructure management easy? | NDC London 2020 | 2020-01-27 |
TypeScript with Pulumi is presented as a practical infra-as-code approach: real TypeScript APIs, compile-time types and IDE completion, and unit tests that run… | ||
| Designing a System for Chaos | DevConf 2019 | 2019-09-25 |
Chaos engineering experiments on production-like failures to uncover real weaknesses: Netflix’s Simian Army (including Chaos Monkey and Chaos Kong)… | ||
| Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What is the Vainest Metric of Them All? | DevConf 2019 | 2019-09-25 |
Argues that common headline metrics mislead and gives concrete alternatives and fixes: 100,000 page views means nothing unless conversion to downloads is… | ||
| Mirror mirror on the wall, what is the vainest metric of them all? | NDC Oslo 2019 | 2019-06-17 |
Argues that headline numbers often mislead and gives concrete replacements: a PR blast that shows 100,000 page views → 20 downloads is vanity, so measure… | ||
| "Mirror mirror on the wall, what is the vainest metric of them all? | Build Stuff Spain 2019 | 2019-05-23 |
Argues that common KPIs — Twitter/Instagram followers, raw pageviews, daily builds, commit counts, stars and story points — are misleading and often vanity… | ||
| Getting started with Chaos Engineering | NDC Sydney 2018 | 2018-09-17 |
Chaos Engineering runs controlled failures against production-like systems to prove resilience: here an auto‑scaling group of 20 instances has 10 instances… | ||
| The Biggest Trick Consultants | Build Stuff 2016 | 2016-11-16 |
Claim: continuous delivery is harder than consultants sell and requires measurable changes not scripts. Concrete practices: build binaries once, use same… | ||
| Centralised Logging without the blood, sweat and tears | NDC Sydney 2016 | 2016-08-01 |
Shows a working pipeline that replaces a 171‑server, $38k/month legacy stack with a managed AWS setup using Kinesis shards → Lambda consumer → Amazon… | ||
| Cloud Devops | NDC Sydney 2016 | 2016-08-01 |
Live demos build real infra: Terraform provisions Azure VM Scale Sets and AWS VPC/ECS clusters, shows terraform plan and graphing, and warns state defaults to… | ||
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