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Past Presentations
Serverless IoT @iRobot
iRobot entered the Smart Home market with the launch of our first internet-connected Roomba in 2015. Despite a long history of developing networked robots and selling millions of (unconnected) consumer robots per year, building an elastic, scalable cloud infrastructure for the Internet of Things...
Serverless & GraphQL
Like a good wine and cheese, some technologies are just meant to be paired. Serverless can help you implement and scale new services rapidly. GraphQL can help you present a unified and pleasant experience for users of your services and APIs, while maintaining a complex infrastructure behind the...
Scaling Marketplaces at Thumbtack
As Paul Graham writes, creating marketplaces is incredibly hard, and they take "heroic measures" to get rolling. From humble beginnings, Thumbtack today helps millions of customers complete their projects, generating more than $1B / year in business for our professionals. In this talk, I will...
With Great Scalability Comes Great Responsibility
This is a story of how I took down one of our vendor’s services with an innocent serverless application. I wanted to retrieve data from one of our monitoring platforms to analyze SPS Commerce’s software performance. Initially, I wrote a script to collect the data using python multiprocessing....
Securing Serverless – By Breaking In
Serverless rocks the security boat. Ad-hoc servers we don’t manage rids us of certain security concerns, while the proliferation of cheap micro services raises others. In this talk, we’ll experience these security concerns live. We’ll break into a vulnerable Serverless application and...
Lessons Debugging Serverless JVM Functions
Microservices (and now serverless) pose a lot of interesting challenges when it comes to monitoring. Decoupling of code down to the "function" level offers a *lot* of interesting opportunities in terms of efficiently architecting code, but many a time does so at a loss of context. The lose of...
Interviews
Serverless IoT @iRobot
What is the focus of your work today?
I help guide and shape our cloud architecture and how we integrate into the Smart home from a technology perspective—we are just about 100% Amazon.
Read Full InterviewServerless and Chatbots: A Match Made in the Cloud
Who is the audience for this talk?
I'm talking to an experienced developer, but probably someone who is just getting started with chatbots (potentially hasn't even done anything with chatbots yet). If you're getting started (or you're wanting to scale up to something you've got) and you're trying to work out what you need to think about if...
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