I love giving talks and sharing knowledge, whether by talking about establishing SRE practices or about deep technical problems. The range of topic varies from capacity planning, on-boarding teams to the on-call rotation, ChatOps, to building developer tools for large-scale platforms.

NoRuKo 2020: Sleeping on the job watch

We all love our Sidekiq’s and our Resque’s. But they do let us down sometimes. Not because they are bad, but because the queueing theory is limiting us. There is a way to break out of the madness though - let’s explore how to get our job queues under control. In collaboration with Julik Tarkhanov.

RailsConf 2018: Operating Rails in Kubernetes watch

We're all used to configure servers with Chef and deploying with Capistrano, however moving to cloud and Kubernetes requires a change in the approach to how we deploy apps. The talk covers common problems that engineers face when setting up Rails apps in Kubernetes.

GORUCO 2018: Running Jobs at Scale watch

In this talk I demonstrate what allowed my team at Shopify to run background jobs at scale. It largely focuses on interruptibility long-running work and the new API to describe jobs that we've developed to solve the problem.

GitHub Satellite 2017: The Secret Life of Monoliths watch

How do you scale, not in the number of requests served per minute, but from the perspective of developer experience? How can you automate code reviews and prevent developers from shooting themselves in the foot? We have built tools to make developers happy working with monolith, and I will be sharing our knowledge in this talk.

RubyFuza 2017: Monorails: deal with it watch

Monoliths are often considered as a bad thing that is slow to get working locally, run tests and deploy. The talk attempts to break that myth by demonstrating how tou can invest into the monolith and make it a great experience for developers, from the moment when they clone the repo and run tests, to the point when they ship the code.

RedDotRuby 2016: Building a ChatOps framework watch

In this talk I describe how we apply ChatOps at Shopify and how we've been able to switch to the commands API without regular expressions, which makes it a lot easier for developers to add new features.

RailsConf 2015: Building RailsPerf watch

Talking at RailsConf about benchmarking Rails as a framework and RubyBench, a community project for long running benchmarks, which helps to find performance regressions in Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

budapest.rb: Introducing Capistrano 3 slides

Presenting Capistrano 3, a major update to the most popular deployment tool for Ruby apps.