Looking forward to talk about relational databases on the cloud at the Serverless Architecture Conference. Here in Berlin, next October!
Serverless Architecture Conference 2020
Dev Around the Sun
Looking forward to be a speaker next week at Dev Around the Sun, a 24-hour international fundraiser organised by the .NET Foundation for the Direct Relief’s Coronavirus Fund.
It all starts on May 12 at 2PM CEST, I will be live on May 13 at 7AM CEST. Title of my talk and abstract below. Schedule, how to donate and all the details at DevAroundTheSun.org
Hey, where is my country? Make all your end users happy
What looks like a simple choice in a drop-down list, can turn into a PR nightmare. Integrating an external mapping service can unintentionally make many of your users unhappy. How can software developers and startups manage location-based services in disputed territories or partially recognized state? How can you make all your users happy? A few tips and tricks for the developer who targets an international audience but wants to rely on location data to control new features.
TestCon Europe 2020
For the very first time next October I will attend and speak at a testing conference and it will be the biggest software testing conference in Europe, TestCon Europe 2020. I will cover one of my favorite topics, geolocation and geopolitical challenges in the software world: “Hey, Where is My Country? How to Test Your App and Website for Geolocation and Geopolitical Challenges”.
The abstract is below, more on the topic on saorico.com. Looking forward to be back to Vilnius!
Abstract
What looks like a simple choice in a drop down list, it can turn into a nightmare. Integrating an external mapping service can unintentionally make many of your users unhappy. How can we test websites and apps in disputed territories or partially recognized state?
Many airlines were forced recently to change the name of Taiwan on their booking systems. Hotel chain website where banned in mainland China for labeling Tibet as an independent country. Ukrainian users were upset because Crimea was removed from the map of their land. “What is the capital of Israel?” is a question that has triggered different answers from voice virtual assistants. We will go on a virtual tour around the world to see how disputed territories or partially recognized states are handled by online services and discuss how we can test and spot unintended geopolitical issues in our products.
What is a serverless database?
Today I was back for “Devs Lunch Box” at Codemotion, talking about one of my favorite topics in the database world. You can find the recording of my short presentation “What is a serverless database?” here. The slides are available too.
DevOps Pro Europe 2020
A few devops conferences still go ahead, fully remotely, and it was a pleasure yesterday to be part of DevOps Pro Europe. Here are the slides and the video of my talk “Serverless Databases: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”.
Codemotion “Devs Lunch Box”
How to run MySQL on AWS – the recording of my short talk for Codemotion “Devs Lunch Box” is now available on the Codemotion platform. In about 10 minutes, I covered the main ways to deploy a MySQL (or a PostgreSQL) database on the largest cloud provider.
AWS Certified Database – Specialty
Still thinking that this was my last AWS exam, but very happy to have passed the AWS Certified Database – Specialty Beta Exam in January and be one of the first ones to hold the new certification.
