Videos
Conference talks & presentations
Staff+ Platform Engineer @ a16z-backed Founder - What I Wish I'd Known
QCon San Francisco 2025
Datadog Dash Conference 2020: Beyond Rewriting from Scratch
Uses observability to modernize legacy systems lacking tests, sharing practical engineering lessons (full talk transcript available).
Conf42 SRE 2023: "Leveraging Incidents to Align Platform and Product Engineering"
Focuses on using production incidents to bridge gaps between platform and product engineering, with observability and microservices insights from Nextdoor.
SF Rails Meetup (January 2016): "What if I told you... You're already doing Microservices"
Covers how a Rails app organically grew into a Microservice Architecture, explaining patterns that emerged (starting with adding a Rails engine) and how teams can implement these tricks with existing tools.
RailsConf 2015: "5 Ways We Screwed Up Microservices" (Lightning Talk)
Part of the full RailsConf 2015 Lightning Talks session sharing lessons about microservices failures from experience at Yammer and Oracle.
Additional Talks & Resources
GlueCon 2016: You got a couple Microservices, now what? Adding SRE to DevOps
Covers running microservices in production with containers, Kubernetes, and Mesos. Discusses DevOps and SRE team structures.
View slides on Speaker Deck →Asset Pipeline or Webpack: Why Not Both?
Exploring strategies for integrating modern JavaScript tooling with Rails asset pipeline.
View slides on Speaker Deck →Concurrent Ruby
Deep dive into concurrency patterns and tools in Ruby.
View slides on Speaker Deck →O'Reilly Webinar: Adding Ruby Microservices to Your App
Gonzalo Maldonado presenting on integrating Ruby microservices to existing applications.
View on O'Reilly Learning →