Talks on Justin Carmony

Talk: DDM's Journey into Big Data with BigQuery with KSL and Deseret News - Salt Lake City GCP Meetup

Tue, 06 Nov 2018 20:00:48 +0000

I gave this presentation at the Salt Lake City Google Cloud Platform Meetup we hosted at Deseret Digital Media.

https://speakerdeck.com/justincarmony/ddms-journey-into-big-data-with-bigquery-with-ksl-and-deseret-news

We will hear from Justin Carmony, the Sr. Director of Engineering, Analytics at Deseret Digital Media.

This talk is part use-case and part intro into BigQuery.

Three years ago Deseret Digital Media had a serious problem: it had a lot of data in Google Analytics and Google Ad Manager (then called DFP), but couldn’t run the in-depth analysis needed because of limitations with their reporting tools. They had crucial questions they couldn’t answer, so they did what everyone else was doing: just guessing and hoping for the best.

Talk: Making the Switch to Engineering Management - Utah PHP Usergroup

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 20:00:35 +0000

I gave this talk at the Utah PHP Usergroup. It was a quick turn around to make the presentation, so not my best slides, but they got the job done.

Slides

https://speakerdeck.com/justincarmony/making-the-switch-to-engineering-management

Video

Note: the quality isn’t the best, but it’s what they had.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyuAWOfR6Ek

Details

Making the Switch to Engineering Management by Justin Carmony

The first part of an engineer’s career is pretty straight-forward: learning the skills and technology to code. Then, one day after being a senior developer for a few years, you find you need to make a decision: do you want to become a manager? Are you ready to make the switch to management? Do you even want to? What would it be like? How do you know if you’re ready? How do you prepare? Ahhhhh!

Talk: Getting Started with Big Data using BigQuery & PHP - Utah PHP Usergroup

Thu, 16 Nov 2017 20:00:45 +0000

Slides

I don’t have a copy of the slides for this presentation. However, they were near identical to the presentation I gave at the Google Cloud Platform SLC meetup. My daughter was only a few weeks old, so my whole family was operating on very little sleep, and I forgot my power cord for my brand new MacBook Pro. Won’t make that mistake again.

Here was a tweet after the Meetup:

Talk: Docker, PHP, and Live Demoing - What could go wrong? - Utah PHP Usergroup

Thu, 19 May 2016 20:00:18 +0000

This presentation was a ton of fun. In a room with a dozen or more engineers and did a live demo of using Docker. We made environments for local development and then showed how to use them in production. We talked about our experience at DDM running Docker in production, where it made sense, and tradeoffs to be aware of.

Talk: Scaling & Managing Asynchronous Workers (and staying sane!) - PHPNW15

Sun, 04 Oct 2015 20:00:18 +0000

I had the absolute privilege of flying out to Manchester, England to give this presentation. It was a total blast.

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTcyuzJkxIg

Slides

https://speakerdeck.com/justincarmony/scaling-and-managing-asynchronous-workers-and-staying-sane

Abstract

There comes a point in time with a website when eventually need to do something in the background. There are always cron jobs, but eventually those either don’t scale well, or are not responsive enough. Learn about how to help your website efficiently scale by using workers. We’ll touch briefly the fundamental theory behind workers and how to easily implement them. We’ll learn about several different technologies to help manage workers such as Beanstalkd, Supervisord, Redis, and others. We’ll show a live demo of PHP workers performing tasks and you’ll leave with sound understanding of how to implement workers in your own application.

Talk: Writing Interactive User Interfaces with PHP & React.js - PHPNW15

Sat, 03 Oct 2015 20:00:46 +0000

Wow, this talk. I had warned myself when I started speaking I would never, ever be one of those speakers who came ill-prepared and bombed a talk. It took being ~30 talks in my speaking career where I let my guard down, and at one of my very favorite conferences, I blew it. (Ok, maybe not bombed it, but I didn’t do well to my standards)

Ok, I didn’t totally blow it, but if you watch the video (I was almost tempted not to post it) feel free to skip the live demo. What happened is my first part of my talk went incredibly fast, and then I ran into technical difficulties with my live demo (which I didn’t prepare or harden very well in advance). What was the worst part is because I took so long trying to get my live demo to work, I had well-prepared content I had to rush.

Talk: Writing Interactive User Interfaces with PHP & React.js - Utah PHP Usergroup

Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:00:24 +0000

This was my dry-run for my upcoming talk at PHP North West 2015. Check out that talk for the final copy of the slides.

Talk: Agile Doesn't Have to Stink - OpenWest 2015

Thu, 07 May 2015 20:00:52 +0000

This is one of my favorite talks to give. I forget how much great content is inside of them.

Slides

https://speakerdeck.com/justincarmony/agile-doesnt-have-to-stink

Talk: Making the Most of your Agile Process - Dutch PHP Conf `14

Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:00:23 +0000

Slides

https://speakerdeck.com/justincarmony/making-the-most-of-your-agile-process-dpc-14

Talk: Blazing Data with Redis - Dutch PHP Conference 2014

Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:00:12 +0000

Slides

https://speakerdeck.com/justincarmony/redis-dutch-php-conf-14

Resources

Demo GitHub Repo: https://github.com/justincarmony/fun-with-redis-2

Talk: Mentoring Devs into DevOps - OpenWest 2014

Fri, 09 May 2014 06:17:54 +0000

Slides

https://speakerdeck.com/justincarmony/mentoring-devs-into-devops-openwest

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0jVSBqj-YY

Talk: Top to Bottom PHP Profiling - Lone Star PHP 2014

Sat, 26 Apr 2014 20:00:04 +0000

Slides

https://speakerdeck.com/justincarmony/top-to-bottom-php-profiling

Talk: Scaling & Managing Asynchronous Workers (and staying sane!) - Lone Star PHP 2014

Fri, 25 Apr 2014 20:00:48 +0000

Slides

https://speakerdeck.com/justincarmony/managing-and-scaling-asynchronous-workers-and-staying-sane

Talk: Blazing Data with Redis - True North PHP 2013

Sat, 09 Nov 2013 20:00:32 +0000

Slides

https://speakerdeck.com/justincarmony/blazing-data-with-redis-truenorthphp

Workshop: Bringing Order to the Chaos of your Server Management with Salt

Thu, 07 Nov 2013 20:00:58 +0000

This was my first 3 hour workshop, and boy did I learn a lot doing it. I had a lot of great feedback and learned many ways to improve future workshops.

Slides

HTML5 Slides: https://justincarmony.github.io/slides/salt-tutorial

Talk: Automate Your Local Environment with Vagrant & Friends - php[architect] Web Summit Series: DevOps

Tue, 16 Jul 2013 20:00:19 +0000

Slides

HTML5 Slides: https://justincarmony.github.io/slides/vagrant-intro/

Talk: Salt, The New Configuration Management System - Dutch PHP Conference 2013

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 20:00:03 +0000

Slides

HTML5 Slides: https://justincarmony.github.io/slides/salt-intro/

Resources

Demo GitHub Repo: https://github.com/JustinCarmony/salt-demo

Talk: High-Performance Websites with Scalable Workers - Dutch PHP Conference 2013

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:00:19 +0000

Slides

https://speakerdeck.com/justincarmony/high-performance-websites-with-scalable-workers

Talk: Demystifying CSS For Developers - OpenWest 2013

Fri, 03 May 2013 20:00:05 +0000

Slides

Note: These slides were from WordCamp SLC, but it was the same presentation.

https://www.slideshare.net/JustinCarmony/demystifying-css-wordpress

Talk: High-Performance Websites with Scalable Workers - OpenWest 2013

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:00:10 +0000

Slides

https://speakerdeck.com/justincarmony/high-performance-websites-with-scalable-workers

Talk: Demystifying CSS for Developers - PHP Tek 2012

Thu, 24 May 2012 20:00:24 +0000

Slides

https://www.slideshare.net/JustinCarmony/demystifying-css-wordpress

Talk: Blazing Data with Redis - PHP Tek 2012

Wed, 23 May 2012 20:00:23 +0000

This talk has a special place in my heart. It was the first talk I ever gave at a larger conference. The conference paid for my hotel and airfare, and I gave the presentation in front of over a hundred people. At the time, it was my personal goal to present at PHP Tek, and I had finally achieved it.

Slides

https://www.slideshare.net/JustinCarmony/blazing-data-with-redis-20

Talk: Blazing Data with Redis - Utah Open Source Conference 2012

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:00 +0000

I gave this talk at the Utah Open Source Conference in May 2012, the same year I presented it at PHP Tek.

Blazing Data With Redis (and LEGOS!) from Justin Carmony

Video - Demystifying CSS & WordPress

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:19:28 +0000

The great guys at Pole Vault Media and WordPress.tv have put up a video of my Demystifying CSS & WordPress talk.

Talk: Profiling PHP Applications - Utah PHP Usergroup

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:49:11 +0000

I gave this talk at the Utah PHP Usergroup early in my speaking career.

Slides

https://www.slideshare.net/JustinCarmony/profiling-php-applications

Talk: Real Life Scaling - A Tale of Two Websites - Utah Open Source Conference 2009

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:01:04 +0000

This was my first talk at any conference. Utah Open Source Conference, now known as OpenWest, was and still is a great place to get your start as a technology speaker.

Slides

https://www.slideshare.net/JustinCarmony/real-life-scaling-a-tale-of-two-websites

Talk: Effective Caching with PHP & Memcached - Utah PHP Usergroup

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:00:20 +0000

Slides

https://www.slideshare.net/JustinCarmony/effectice-caching-w-php-caching

Steamlined Web Development Presentation Video

Wed, 27 May 2009 14:41:26 +0000

Alright, it looks like the Victor at UPHPU has gotten my presentation up on Steamlining your web development. Since it was the first night Victor had tried to capture video & audio to mesh them together, the video on the presentation is a little bit further ahead than the audio. However, I think the presentation went quite well. You can view all the UPHPU meeting videos here. Here is the presentation I gave:

Speaking: Utah PHP Usergroup – Streamlined Web Development

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:41:51 +0000

Next Thursday, November 20th, at 7 PM Mountain Time (9PM EST, 6PM PST) I will be speaking at the Utah PHP Usergroup meeting on “Streamlined Web Development.” I will be speaking with Kevin Carter from Code Greene. Here is the annoucement on the UPHPU website:

I’m very pleased to announce the topic for November’s UPHPU Meeting : Streamlined Web Development using a VCS (Version Control System) and Trac.

Starting the meeting off will be Code Greene’s Kevin Carter. Kevin, who has used Git in a production environment for several months now, will be presenting a primer on how to get started with Git. Additionally, he’ll cover the advantages of distributed source code control and possibly some topics on using git in an svn eniroment. His blog can be found at http://dexterthedragon.com.