Talks and Panels

Panel: Building security into your engineering workflow

Moderated an online panel about improving cyber security across engineering organisations.

Monitoring All the Things: Keeping Track of a Mixed Estate

Spoke about effectively monitoring the tech estate of a company which uses a variety of different technologies and monitoring approaches. Was also on a panel about the value of microservices at the QCon event.

Panel: Observability Strategies for Distributed Systems

Discussed approches for observability when using microservices at this one-day online conference.

Panel: Standarisation and autonomy in our tech choices

Discussed the value of consistency versus local optimisation in our technical approaches at the FT’s internal tech conference.

Panel: Do we only measure things that are easy to measure?

Chaired a panel discussing the use of metrics in tech and product decisions at the FT’s internal tech conference.

Creating a multi-factor authentication solution

Spoke about how the FT used varnish to protect our estate with MFA and tackle phishing attacks. Also collected the Varnish Innovation Award at the same event.

Panel: Page Load Performance

Discussed performance best practices when using cutting edge web technologies.

One VCL to rule all our environments

Spoke about the consolidation of our caching and routing logic across environments using puppet.