Videos

Videos

Beyond the Code: Designing Services That Stand the Test of Time - nor(DEV):con 2026

As software engineers, it's easy to get lost in the excitement of implementing clever business logic: the algorithms, the workflows, the elegant domain models. But the success (or failure) of a service rarely hinges on its core logic alone. What really separates a fragile prototype from a resilient, scalable system is everything that happens around that logic: the invisible scaffolding that shapes how a service behaves, communicates, and recovers when things go wrong.

So You Think You Can Lead a Software Team? - ACCU 2025

Software engineering is hard. Leading a team, as an engineer, can be even harder. Many of us are better at developing software than we are with people and feel our value lies in actually writing code. When you step into team leading, there are more people than code and your value increases.

From Zero to Deployed: Building & Shipping an AWS Lambda with TypeScript, Terraform & GitHub Actions

Ever wanted to build a serverless function, but felt there was too much boilerplate to write before it gets interesting? In this talk, we’ll walk through creating an AWS Lambda from scratch, using TypeScript, and show just how clean, fast, and repeatable deployment can be when using Terraform for infrastructure and GitHub Actions for deployment.

KEYNOTE: From nothing to too much: growing a tech community in the East of England - Paul Grenyer

In this hopefully light hearted and amusing keynote, Paul Grenyer will chart his journey from over excited puppy who needed to be hit over the nose with a rolled up newspaper to helping build one of the strongest and most successful tech communities in the UK in the massive tech hub of Norwich, still considered an insignificant back water by many.

Find My Tea: A Technical Journey Through New Product Development

I will take you on the journey of discovery from having an idea, to choosing, re-choosing and choosing again the different technologies and platforms I used to build and release a new product from scratch.

So you think you can lead a team? (Haven)

A talk about team leadership and management at Haven conference