Steve Upton
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- TestCon Europe4 editions2021–2024
- Big Data Conference Europe2 editions2022–2023
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- Russ Miles22 talks
- Kent Beck14 talks
- Nicole van der Hoeven11 talks
- Kerri Miller19 talks
- Angie Jones54 talks
- Matt Stratton30 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Nicole van der Hoeven, Steve Upton: Flirting with Risk: A Playbook for Continuous Reliability | TestCon Europe 2024 | 2024-10-22 |
A practical playbook for exploring reliability that names tools and actions: run small, permissioned chaos experiments (Netflix’s chaos monkey and tools like… | ||
| What are Fish? The Ethics of Rules | Big Data Conference Europe 2023 | 2023-11-22 |
Connectionist systems like neural networks and large language models embed decision rules across weights so connectionist systems hide rules and explainability… | ||
| Learning From Failure With Elon Musk | TestCon Europe 2023 | 2023-10-25 |
Compares a coherent engineering experiment — try parachutes, learn, pivot to parachute recovery failed and then to engine-powered landings succeeded using… | ||
| What are Fish? The Ethics of Rules | GOTO Amsterdam 2023 | 2023-06-13 |
Argument that modern AI models like ChatGPT DALL·E MidJourney and GitHub Copilot are connectionist systems whose rules live in distributed weights so… | ||
| KEYNOTE: You Are Overthinking Data Quality | Big Data Conference Europe 2022 | 2022-11-23 |
Argument: teams are overcomplicating data quality when specifics matter — what is the precise failure mode, what tests catch it, how many rows break it, and… | ||
| KEYNOTE: The Affordances of Quality | TestCon Europe 2022 | 2022-10-26 |
Argues that quality depends on concrete affordances not slogans: a board with a separate QA column makes it trivially easy to “push quality later,” so remove… | ||
| Building a culture from Chaos | code.talks 2022 | 2022-09-15 |
Chaos engineering is presented as an intentional discipline: Netflix builds tools like chaos monkey and latency monkey to randomly kill servers and inject… | ||
| Stop Trying to Fix Everything | TestCon Europe 2021 | 2021-09-07 |
Argues that root causes are fuzzy in complex systems and that five whys and action-item rushes often stop learning. Recommends running a blameless postmortem… | ||
| A More Fluid Pyramid | Reliable Web Summit 2021 | 2021-08-26 |
Argues the pyramid should be fluid not prescriptive and shows concrete tradeoffs: an identical user-flow as an end-to-end with Cypress, a shallow unit render… | ||
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