A working back catalogue of conference talks, workshops and webinars — covering platform engineering, policy as [versioned] code, multi‑tenancy, and the realities of building digital services for the public.
How do I secure my APIs and apps to be production-ready? In this session, you'll learn about the sidecar pattern and policies that can make your services more secure and resilient, including a live hacking demo.
In this talk Chris will trace back the origins of how policies are often incepted, how it can get out of hand, be slow if not impossible to update and measure compliance, and often lead us to question of is the policy helping or hindering. From this talk you'll learn how to use a software development pattern and product ways of thinking towards how your organization can manage policy; achieve continual updates to policy allowing the risk mitigations to move as fast as the risk does, not get in the way and be easy to measure compliance.
In this talk Chris will trace back the origins of how policies are often incepted, how it can get out of hand, be slow if not impossible to update and measure compliance, and often lead us to question of is the policy helping or hindering. From this talk you'll learn how to use a software development pattern and product ways of thinking towards how your organization can manage policy; achieve continual updates to policy allowing the risk mitigations to move as fast as the risk does, not get in the way and be easy to measure compliance.
Scaling nodes in a Kubernetes cluster could take several minutes with the default settings. In this webinar, Chris will demo live how you can configure Pod Priorities and a placeholder pod to pre-warm node instances for quicker scaling. By the end of the session, you will master how to align the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and Cluster Autoscaler for blazing fast scaling even with occasional traffic spikes.
In this talk, Chris will explore the challenges and benefits of dynamically balancing and optimizing the resources of a Kubernetes cluster. He will explain how Kubernetes uses a scheduler to assign pods to nodes based on various factors, such as resource requests, limits, affinity, anti-affinity, and taints. He will also demonstrate how to use tools and techniques, such as horizontal pod autoscaling, cluster autoscaling and the descheduler, to improve the performance and efficiency of your cluster. From this talk, you will learn how to leverage the power and flexibility of Kubernetes to achieve optimal resource utilization and workload distribution.
Explores how Kubernetes is the new pet and the consequences that presents.
Explores how Kubernetes is the new pet and the consequences that presents.
In this session, you will explore the tools and techniques necessary to partition a cluster so that multiple teams can use it to deploy workloads.
In this session, you will explore the tools and techniques necessary to partition a cluster so that multiple teams can use it to deploy workloads.
What are Pod Security Policies? What do you mean, they are deprecated? What am I going to do?!
A presentation on APIs for non-technical senior leaders
A show and tell talk describing the development of a cloud maturity model for the UK Public Sector
An ignite format talk, describing a vision for a UK Public Sector Cloud Marketplace
A show and tell talk describing the development of a cloud maturity model for the UK Public Sector
A briefing presentation on the National Data Exchange to Global Government Forum Innovation 2025
Currently only considering offers from organisations who agree that bureaucracy is an impediment to progress.
Drop a line →Nothing on the books just now. Get in touch if you'd like to invite me to speak — workshops, conferences, podcasts, or in-house briefings.
| Date | Talk | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-27 | Balancing Isolation and Complexity in a Kubernetes Platform | virtualLoftLabs vCluster 2025 workshops |
| 2025-03-26 | Introducing The National Digital Exchange | irlGlobal Government Forum Innovation |
| 2025-03-25 | Introducing The National Digital Exchange | irlGlobal Government Forum Innovation |
| 2024-12-12 | Introduction to API | virtualCDDO Spotlight Webinars |
| 2024-03-21 | Ignite: UK Public Sector Public Cloud Marketplace | irlGlobal Government Forum |
| 2024-03-14 | Building a Multi-Tenanted Kubernetes Platform Code | virtualLoftLabs vCluster 2024 workshops |
| 2023-12-07 | Policy as [versioned] Code | hybridGovernment Cyber Security Conference 2023 |
| 2023-10-12 | Pod Security Policy is Dead, Long Live...? | virtualDevSecCon Poland |
| 2023-10-12 | Dynamic Workload Balancing and Resource Optimization in Kubernetes | virtualAkamai: Doing More with Less |
| 2023-09-27 | Is it time to put your pet Kubernetes down | hybridDevSecCon London |
| 2023-09-21 | Policy as [versioned] Code | virtualDevSecCon Germany |
| 2023-03-30 | Proactive cluster autoscaling in Kubernetes | virtualConf42: CloudNative 2023 |
| 2023-03-15 | Is it time to put your pet Kubernetes down | irlCivo: Disruptive Tech |
| 2023-02-16 | Pod Security Policy is Dead, Long Live...? | virtualConf42 Chaos Engineering 2023 |
| 2023-02-02 | Policy as [versioned] Code | virtualDevSecCon Netherlands |
| 2023-01-26 | Is it time to put your pet Kubernetes down | virtualConf42: DevOps 2023 |
| 2023-01-03 | Policy as [versioned] Code | virtualDevOps Monthly Online |
| 2022-12-08 | Is it time to put your pet Kubernetes down | virtualHashiTalks |
| 2022-12-07 | Policy as [versioned] Code | virtualDevSecCon |
| 2022-12-01 | Proactive cluster autoscaling in Kubernetes | virtualConf42: DevSecOps 2022 |
| 2022-11-23 | Policy as [versioned] Code | irlKubernetes Community Days UK 2022 |
| 2022-11-10 | Policy as [versioned] Code | virtualMobile DevOps Summit |
| 2022-11-03 | Is it time to put your pet Kubernetes down | virtualDevtron webinar |
| 2022-11-02 | Policy as [versioned] code | irlLondon Microsoft DevOps Meetup |
| 2022-10-29 | Policy as [versioned] Code | virtualIndia Cloud Security Summit |
| 2022-10-25 | Policy as [versioned] code | irlGitOpsCon |
| 2022-10-24 | Policy as [versioned] code | irlSpinnaker Summit |
| 2022-10-19 | Policy as [versioned] code | virtualWeAreDevelopers Live - DevOps Day |
| 2022-10-15 | Policy as [versioned] Code | virtualOSCONF 2022 |
| 2022-10-13 | Is it time to put your pet Kubernetes down | irlDTX Europe |
| 2022-09-29 | Policy as [versioned] Code | virtualConf42 Incident Management |
| 2022-09-28 | Proactive cluster autoscaling in Kubernetes | virtualLinode |
| 2022-09-16 | Policy as [versioned] code | irlOpen Source Summit Europe |
| 2022-09-15 | Policy as [versioned] code | irlSREday |
| 2022-09-15 | Policy as [versioned] Code | virtualCloud with Chris |
| 2022-09-01 | Policy as [versioned] code | virtualDocker Community All Hands #6 |
| 2022-08-24 | Policy as [versioned] code | irlOpen Source Summit Latin America |
| 2022-06-08 | Policy as [versioned] code | irlCloud Native Wales |
| 2022-06-01 | Policy as [versioned] code | irlCloud Native London |
| 2022-04-06 | 5 Things That Will Improve Your Kubernetes Security Posture | virtualAppvia webinar |
| 2022-03-24 | Pod Security Policy is Dead, Long Live...? | irlKubernetes and Kocktails |
| 2022-03-21 | Microservices Security Pattern in Kubernetes | virtualNGINX Microservices March |
| 2022-03-17 | Pod Security Policy is Dead, Long Live...? | virtualAppvia webinar |
| 2022-02-28 | Is it time to put your pet kubernetes down | virtualAppvia webinar |
| 2021-06-21 | Juicy: Notorious B.I.G. Data | virtualAppvia podcast |
Currently only considering offers from organisations who agree that bureaucracy is an impediment to progress.
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