My First Year Speaking
For almost a year now I've been applying for (and speaking) at tech conferences. Midway through 2017, I made a goal for myself to speak at at least four conferences
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The Age of Cloud Services
Cloud based web hosting has enabled small startups to build and scale software applications that can compete with much larger companies, and now most large enterprises are taking advantage of
What I Learned During My Latest Round of Hiring
I spent about half my time in January hiring our second software engineer at The Graide Network. Hiring developers is tough, especially at a startup where we don't have the
Writing Less Software to Accomplish More
Creating custom software should be the last resort for early stage startups. Writing good software is a slow and expensive process. Writing bad software is even slower, especially when you
Building a Free Website on the GABA Stack
There are hundreds of ways you can put up a website without writing much code, but one pattern I've started playing around with is the GABA stack. What is the
Testing Layers Talk at Codemash 2018
This year I was invited to speak at Codemash, a huge, multi-disciplinary event for software engineers, project managers, web developers, and others in the industry. I gave my talk on
Tutorial: Building Your First Node App Using Docker
Since its first release in 2013, Docker has quickly become one of the hottest topics in software development, and has been adopted by both large and small companies across the
5 Talks I'm Excited for at Codemash 2018
In just a few days I'll be heading to Sandusky, Ohio for the 2018 Codemash conference. In addition to the talk I'll be giving on Testing Distributed Systems and the
Rethinking the Hiring Process
A year and a half ago when I joined The Graide Network, I left a role managing and hiring an engineering team to be the first developer at a new
Presentation at API Strategy & Practice, 2017: Testing Layers
This year, I decided to make speaking at a conference one of my goals (and I made a big list of conferece CFP dates that you can use as well).