Talks

A selection of talks I've given over the years on webhooks and event-driven applications, Developer Relations, and realtime web technology. More can be found on Notist, YouTube, and (for the older ones) SlideShare.

2026

Beyond Webhooks: The Future of Scalable API Event Delivery WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 Video
Reliably Handling Webhooks at Scale: Best Practices and Lessons Learned Shopify Partners North Developers Meetup Slides

2025

Beyond Webhooks: The Future of Scalable API Event Delivery Nordic APIs Platform Summit 2025 Video
LiveCast: Asynchronous APIs for AI and Data Science Nordic APIs Video
Webhooks at Scale: Best Practices and Lessons Learned Stripe London Video Slides
The #1 Thing Developers Overlook When Scaling Events Stripe Developers Video
PagerDuty Partner Spotlight: Hookdeck PagerDuty Video
Beyond Webhooks: The Future of Scalable API Event Delivery apidays New York 2025 Slides (Notist)Slides (Speaker Deck)

2024

From Funnels to Flywheels: Tools for Thinking About DevRel DevRelCon New York 2024 Slides

2023

A DevRel Hiring Manager's Advice DevRel interview Video

2021

Where does DevRel fit into an org? Flyless Slides
Defining the Roles within Developer Relations Flyless Slides

2020

DevRel Metrics panel DevRelCon Earth 2020 Video
DevRel in the Time of Coronavirus DevRel.net interview Video

2019

Developer Relations: From Startup to Enterprise DevRelCon London 2019 Video Slides
Developer Relations: From Startup to Enterprise DevRelCon San Francisco 2019 Slides

2016

Introduction to the AAARRRP DevRel Strategy Framework DevRelCon London 2016 Video Framework

2015

What is the ROI of Developer Relations? DevRelCon London 2015 Video
Real-time Web Apps & Symfony. What are your options? SymfonyLive London 2015 Video
Why You Should be Using Web Components Right Now. And How Forward 3 Web Summit Video
Why You Should be Using Web Components - and How DevWeek 2015 Video
Patterns and Practices for Building Enterprise-Scale HTML5 Apps DevWeek 2015 Video
How to Build Single Page HTML5 Apps that Scale Conference talk Video
Real-Time Web Apps in 2015 & Beyond BristolJS Video
Real-Time Web Apps in 2015 & Beyond Pusher Video
You Have Real-Time Data. You Just Don't Know It! Conference talk Video
Tools, Tips and Techniques for Developing Real-time Apps Pusher Video

2014

The Realtime Web in 2014 & Beyond Screencast Video
How to Build Front-End Web Apps that Scale FutureJS 2014 Video
Testing Ginormous JavaScript Apps ScotlandJS Video

2013

Building Front-End JavaScript Apps that Scale STV Tech Talks Video
Realtime Web Apps in the Wild PHP UK Conference 2013 Video Slides
Realtime Web Apps in the Wild Hackference 2013 Slides