Public Appearances

I cover the basics of what an AWS Landing Zone (LZ) is and why we need them. Topics include best practices around building your own LZ, including approaches for value-focused LZs. I also share my lessons learned after years of building LZ’s in AWS, and dive into Cloud Guard rails that set you up for success …

This webinar walks you through many different features in Miro using a Miro board you can follow along with. We cover use of post-its, locking items, frames and presentations, voting, timers, zoom levels, and even kanban boards! Watch the video on YouTube Miro Masterclass or play the video below:

On Tuesday October 26, Contino’s Melissa Aydin, Head of TalentOps and James Strong, Cloud Native Director, along with our two teams of tech experts presented The Great Tech Debate of 2021. Based on their industry experience and work with our clients, our teams debated between four major topics, with timed answers and a …

Join Greg and I as we run through what it’s like to be a Technical Principal at Contino.

Putting the Good in Good Software Delivery: With so much progress in "Agile, DevOps and Automation" writing Good Software in 2020 should be easy - so why are so many companies still struggling? Somewhere along the line we got lost, and never really appreciated the power of understanding business value, value …

Speaker at the meetup for Kubernetes and Cloud Native Computing Louisville. Join me on a journey of how we ended in a Cloud Native world, what the future holds for DevOps, and how to optimize the Developer Experience to take advantage of the best the cloud has to offer. Presentation: PDF | Google Slides

I had the pleasure of working with my Contino team to run immersive Incremental Application Modernization Workshops. These hands-on training sessions help you understand the real business value of serverless. Application Modernization Workshop - Minneapolis Co-Speaker with James Strong for the Application Modernization …

Melbourne Docker Meeting - Docker Datacenter - @pabv @drewkhoury from @Odecee talking #dockerdatacenter @zendesk #melbournedocker #dockermeetup

DevOps @ Australasian Architecture Network & Xpand Having had fantastic success with a number of previous meet ups, Xpand and the Australasian Architecture Network are hosting a meet up to look into the DevOps field and what role it has to play in an organisation today. It would be fair to say this field has often …

Bryce Johnson and Andrew talk about how to deliver puppet into the enterprise, starting with a low risk project (like a build CI environment) on open source. Expanding up the environment ranks, they show how to eventually expand into to Puppet Enterprise (citing case studies) as the customer has gained confidence and …