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Talks

Sometimes the challenges, rants, or things I find interesting become talks. This page represents an ever-growing list of my presentations as the years go by.

2024

Nov 27, 2024

Building an edge device to monitor atmospheric conditions

Cloud Native Rejekts NA 2024

What's it about?

Our university curriculum missed local problems, so we built an edge device to watch the air on campus. Prometheus, Grafana and MQTT turned the readings into insights on emissions and on protecting an endangered local bird.

June 7, 2024

Kubernetes at Scale: Going Multi-Cluster with Istio Service Mesh

DevOpsDays Houston 2024

What's it about?

Why teams spread Kubernetes across clusters, and how Istio makes it manageable. We connect two clusters, mirror services between them, and use traffic shifting to fail over or A/B test without downtime.

2022

Dec 13, 2022

Keeping things secret with Vault

Hashicorp: Deploy

What's it about?

A practical look at managing secrets with HashiCorp Vault: keeping credentials out of code and config, and getting them to your apps safely.

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