My Technical Talks
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Technical talks and live streams, ranging from Python to Postman to API architecture usage lie REST vs gRPC. Most will include a YouTube recording and other details.
Postman Webinar
My most requested workshop, given dozens of times at meetups, remote conferences, and code schools to student teams looking for productivity when you need to build an API but don't want people waiting around while you build it.
workshop, recorded/published around 2023-03-02, 90 minutes
Postman Webinar
With Sam Wronski from Microsoft. We built a small .NET application to pull data from a D&D API, make an API wrapper around it, and learned how to do testing in Postman.
livestream, recorded/published around 2023-02-09, 90 minutes
Postman Webinar
Teaches on the basics of gRPC, how to design a gRPC API in Postman, and building tests. Turned this into a conference talk given at gRPC Conf.
workshop, recorded/published around 2023-10-02, 60 minutes
Postman Livestream
The first of a series of livestreams I did with Kevin Corbett showing how quickly you can use Google's Authentication system to talk to their APIs within Postman, and how we fetched some data from Google Analytics.
workshop, recorded/published around 2023-08-24, 90 minutes
Postman Webinar
Interview-style workshop with two Postman colleagues to discuss and demonstrate API performance testing, code optimization best practices and refining API performance.
workshop, recorded/published around 2023-08-10, 60 minutes
Postman Livestream
Workshop/demo about finding APIs to fetch data about available jobs in the tech industry and boost your resume.
livestream, recorded/published around 2023-07-23, 90 minutes
Postman Webinar
Presented with two security engineers at Postman, where we discuss API security principles, and demonstrate common security issues with GraphQL that can lead to DDOS attacks.
workshop, recorded/published around 2023-07-07, 60 minutes
Postman Webinar
Beginner-friendly learning session tailored for developers. We guide you through the basics of using Postman as an API client, getting started with testing, navigating different authorization methods, and much more!
workshop, recorded/published around 2023-05-04, 60 minutes
Teach Jenn Tech Podcast
Jenn and I chatted again about intro-level tech topics, this time about APIs and how they're used in programming, comparing RESTful APIs and other async API types, and talked about Postman as well.
livestream, recorded/published around 2023-04-18, 130 minutes
NE Bytes UK Meetup (remote)
UK-based Meetup. Workshop/demo of Postman.
meetup, recorded/published around 2023-04-13, 35 minutes
Postman Webinar
Intermediate session about API governance setup, collaboration and team roles with RBAC, using the Private API Network, and more. (60min workshop)
workshop, recorded/published around 2023-01-31, 60 minutes
Postman Webinar
One of my most-watched and most engaged online workshops. I use the framework for an in-person workshop that I would execute later in 2023 as the basis for this 90-minute workshop on getting started with the OpenAPI specification to plan a team's API development.
workshop, recorded/published around 2023-01-05, 90 minutes
KWSQA Webinar, Remote
Demonstrated how to build mock servers for RESTful and GraphQL APIs in Postman.
workshop, recorded/published around 2022-12-31, 90 minutes
Postman Students Livestream
I was a guest on a Postman Students livestream where we discussed ways to choose APIs for student projects and how to check whether they have all the features you need.
workshop, recorded/published around 2022-10-08, 60 minutes
Teach Jenn Tech Podcast
Jenn and I had a great talk comparing Python and JavaScript, and compiled languages like Java. We dive deeper into some Python frameworks and auth and more!
livestream, recorded/published around 2022-08-19, 75 minutes
Postman Webinar
Intermediate-level training geared specifically for API testers and other stakeholders invested in the health of your APIs, including product managers, business managers, DevOps practitioners.
workshop, recorded/published around 2022-08-19, 60 minutes
Postman Livestream
My friend Dan Moore and I explore authentication techniques with FusionAuth when it comes to API authentication, and do implementation and testing in Postman.
workshop, recorded/published around 2022-07-22, 90 minutes
Postman Webinar
Interview-style demo workshop with a Postman product manager and one of the engineers who built the tool, to discuss and demonstrate Postman's new no-code API tool, Flows.
demo/workshop, recorded/published around 2022-06-16, 60 minutes
Scrimba Livestream
A one-hour live-stream discussing software testing, different kinds of testing, how to automate it, including API testing with Postman, and an introduction to Test-Driven-Development (TDD).
interview, recorded/published around 2022-06-01, 60 minutes
Postman Webinar
Part one of a series of workshops I helped develop. Intermediate-level Postman learning session geared specifically for API developers, API producers, and anyone else invested in building quality APIs. We’ll walk through the initial stages of the API lifecycle, including designing, defining, documenting, and testing an API.
workshop, recorded/published around 2022-05-13, 60 minutes
Personal livestream
I hosted a panel of colleagues in DevRel roles to talk about what the role was about. Big thanks to Caroline Kerns, Wesley Faulkner, Christina Monti, Lauren Lee and Danny Ramos for joining me.
interview, recorded/published around 2022-03-03, 100 minutes
Postman Livestream
This 90-minute workshop to control a series of IoT lights from Nanoleaf and Govee turned into a small series of livestreams we would continue to develop at Postman and were always very highly engaged and attended. (90-minute workshop)
livestream, recorded/published around 2022-02-24, 90 minutes
Google Developers Group meetup, Boulder CO
In the summer of 2014, SendGrid was only one of two third-party services listed as recommended partners on the Google Cloud Platform. This talk discussed the usage of SendGrid on GCP and cost benefits. The background and partnership details were about 15 minutes, the API demo was 10 minutes, plus 15 minutes of Q&A.
in-person, recorded/published around 2014-07-31, 40 minutes
Ryerson Digital Media Zone (DMZ), Toronto Canada
This is a full Agile methodology overview that I have come up with based on my own experience as a software developer throughout my career. I recommend following the links in the presentation to learn and read the full Agile Manifesto, or seek a more thorough Agile coaching class to get more information. Ryerson University in Toronto Canada has an incubator group called the Digital Media Zone (DMZ). One startup going through DMZ at the time, HitSend (later called SoapBox and then Hypercontext) hosted me during a trip I made for PyCon Canada.
in-person, recorded/published around 2012-11-08, 90 minutes