Talks
I’m not a professional speaker. These are mostly hour-long meetup talks or 20-minute conference slots. Slides are linked from each entry — some have screen recordings, most don’t.
Why we picked NATS over Kafka (and when we would have picked Kafka)
A honest comparison after 18 months of running NATS JetStream in production for a mid-size workload, with the footguns we hit.
Ten years in a terminal: what I wish I had worried about less
A lightning talk on career reflections: the things I stressed about at year three that turned out to not matter, and the ones I ignored that did.
Reading goroutine traces like a local
How to read the output of runtime/trace and actually understand why your service is slow.
SLO math for tired engineers
A practical take on error budgets when your team has three people, one of whom is on vacation.
Building a quiet Proxmox rack in a studio apartment
Three ex-enterprise 1U boxes, a UPS, and a wife who sleeps ten feet away. What I did about the noise, the heat, and the power bill.