Christopher Biggs
DirectorAccelerando Consulting
Christopher Biggs has been into Open Systems since the early 90s and was there at the birth of Linux and 386BSD. His interest in electronics and connected devices goes back even further. He has worked as a developer, System Architect and Engineering Manager.
Christopher is now the principal of Accelerando Consulting, a boutique consultancy specialising in Internet of Things (IoT), DevOps mentorship and Cloud Data. Accelerando helps businesses get the most from their technology and tools, and creates custom solutions to meet clients’ unique needs. Christopher is also convenor of the Brisbane Internet of Things interest group, and was a founding executive member of HUMBUG, the Brisbane open systems user group. He has presented at conferences and user groups around Australia and internationally.
Talks I've Given
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Rapid Web productivity in Elm - Single Page Apps and more
Featuring Christopher Biggs
Elm is a functional language for the web that compiles to Javascript. As you would expect with any zero-dot version, the language is still settling done, and with
almost a year since the previous release there are a lot of changes, and many breaking ones. But one of the clear benefits of...
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Functional Frontends with Elm
Featuring Christopher Biggs
Functional programmers are lovers of simplicity and order. Developing for the Web has become nothing like either of these. The number of tools and libraries you need to learn seems to multiply without end, and getting them to work together can be a nightmare.
What if there was a language and...
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Devops For Dishwashers - Bringing Grown-Up Practices to the Internet of Things
Featuring Christopher Biggs
The Internet of Things is undeniably here. In the last year we have heard tell of of security cameras, dishwashers and even ovens roaming the internet unsupervised.
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As a consultant and writer about the Internet of Things, I have worked to bring my experience from 20 years in manufacturing and... -
From Little Things, Big Data Grow - IoT at Scale
Featuring Christopher Biggs
The Internet of Things (IoT) is really about the ubiquity of data, the possibility of humans extending their awareness and reach globally, or further.
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IoT frees us from the tedium of physically monitoring or maintaining remote systems, but to be effective we must be able to rely on data being... -
The Internet Of Scary Things – Guidance for Developing and Deploying IoT Products
Featuring Christopher Biggs
The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently been somewhat of a laughing stock, with poorly designed and managed IoT devices being associated with severe privacy leaks, theft of service, and botnet-perpetrated denial-of-service attacks. The currently circulating joke goes “The S in IoT stands...
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IoT for Slackers – Build Connected Devices with NodeMCU
Featuring Christopher Biggs
Learn how to integrate connected devices into your business systems. Slack is a messaging platform with a robust add-on ecosystem, and supports both channel-based communications and direct messaging. NodeMCU is a Lua-based reactive programming environment (inspired by NodeJS) for the popular...
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