Conference Talks & Presentations
A chronological record of keynotes, conference talks, and panel sessions on observability, build tools, compiler architectures, and language design.
| Year | Presentation | Conference / Event | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Observability by Design: Leveraging OpenTelemetry Weaver with Laurent Querel (F5) • Schema-driven telemetry, code generation, and CI/CD policy. | KubeCon Europe 2025 / Observability Day EU | Video (YouTube) • Schedule |
| 2025 | OpenTelemetry: Unpacking 2025, Charting 2026 with Alolita Sharma, Morgan McLean, Austin Parker • Milestones across signals, governance, roadmap. | KubeCon North America 2025 (Atlanta) | Video (YouTube) • Schedule |
| 2025 | Behind the Proposals: How OpenTelemetry Designs Take Shape Panel on the OTEP lifecycle, multi-vendor consensus, and technical evolutions. | KubeCon North America 2025 (Atlanta) | Video (YouTube) • Schedule |
| 2024 | OpenTelemetry Technical Committee Panel with Reiley Yang, Rynn Mancuso, Jack Berg • Open Q&A on project priorities and technical direction. | KubeCon North America 2024 (Salt Lake City) | Video (YouTube) • Schedule |
| 2021 | Cloud-Native and Kubernetes Observability Panel on application instrumentation, infrastructure telemetry, and collector pipelines. | KubeCon North America 2021 | Schedule |
| 2016 | A Brief (Incomplete and Mostly Wrong) History of Build Tools with Eugene Yokota • Decades of build evolution from Make to sbt, DAGs, and incremental compilers. | Scala Days 2016 (New York & Berlin) | Video (YouTube) • Event |
| 2014 | sbt 1.0 — The Interactive Build Tool Client-server architecture, Zinc compiler isolation, and reactive build event streaming. | Northeast Scala Symposium (NE Scala 2014) | Video (YouTube) • Event |
| 2013 | Effective sbt Multi-project build scoping, task dependency graphs, and plugin architecture best practices. | Scala Days 2013 (New York) | Video (YouTube) • Event |
| 2013 | Introduction to Functional Programming Practical FP patterns, immutability, and algebraic data types in production systems. | Pittsburgh TechFest 2013 | Code (GitHub) • Post |
| 2012 | Keynote: Effective Scala Keynote address on language ergonomics, composition over inheritance, and implicit scope without tax. | Northeast Scala Symposium (NE Scala 2012, Boston) | Video (YouTube) • Event |
| 2012 | The Evolution of Object-Oriented Programming with James Ward • How FP idioms, traits, and typeclasses redefined modern object-oriented programming. | Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise (2012) | Video & Screencast |
| 2012 | Binary Resilience in Scala Understanding binary compatibility, ABI evolution on the JVM, and maintaining library resilience. | Scala Days 2012 (London) | Code (GitHub) • Event |
| 2011 | Akka: Reloaded Distributed actors, supervision hierarchies, and fault-tolerant concurrency on the JVM. | The Strange Loop 2011 (St. Louis) | Video (InfoQ) • Event |