Talks

I spent a fair amount of time speaking at conferences. This page shows some of my talks, some with videos. It’s not complete and never will be, but I try to add the interesting ones here

• Faster and less mysterious sbt builds with Develocity (Scalar 2024, Warsaw; lightning talk)
• X-Ray your Build: Build Events, Build Scans, and Caching Explained (Scala Days 2023, Madrid; with Mirco Dotta)
• How to waste less time with sbt (ScalaSphere 2019, Krakow)
• 5 Things you Need to Know About Scala Compilation (Scala Days 2018, New York)
  • also given at ScalaSphere 2018, Krakow
• Compiling like a boss! (Scala Days 2017, Copenhagen; with Mirco Dotta)
• Evolving an ecosystem. Lessons learned building tools for Scala (Scala Sphere 2016, Krakow)
• Leverage Mesos for Running Spark Streaming Production Jobs (Spark Summit 2015, Amsterdam)
• A dance with tools (Scala World 2015, Penrith)
• Rethinking the debugger (ScalaDays 2014, Berlin)
  • better described in my paper Stack Retention in Concurrent Programs, in Scala Workshop ‘13, Montpellier, 2013 (tool demo)
• Scala Abide! A Lint tool for Scala (Scala eXchange, London 2014; slides only)
• Scala IDE from 0 to 4.0 (ScalaDays 2015, San Francisco)
• Scala and Apache Spark (VoxxedDays 2015, Ticino; abstract only)
• Scala - Performance improvements of a factor of 4 to 30, Boxing and Specialization (London 2010, Skills Matter; archived abstract)