Katie Bell
Freelance Developer Independent
Katie's 10+ year career as a software engineer has been pretty darn fun. She helped develop Google Docs and later was on-call for some of Google's biggest cloud infrastructure as a Site Reliability Engineer. She solved technical and operational challenges at Campaign Monitor as lead of the engineering productivity team, and she helped get education startup Grok Learning off the ground. Fluent in several programming languages, she's at home in both the web browser and deep in the cloud. Today you'll find her freelancing for startups, as well as working on her own projects and teaching people to code.
Talks I've Given
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What No-Code Teaches Us About Building Software
Featuring Katie Bell
As a developer I've been pretty skeptical of this whole ""no-code"" trend. Sure, maybe you can build a static website or a blog using a template builder but if you want to build a real application and you don't want to get boxed in you'll need to write code, right?...
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Is the 370 the worst bus in Sydney?
Featuring Katie Bell
In Switzerland, people will be surprised at a bus that's 2min late. In Sydney, people will only consider it noteworthy if a bus is more than 20min late, and this varies greatly between routes and providers. So, how do Sydney bus routes stack up? And if we're talking about privatisation, how do...
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Is the 370 the worst bus in Sydney?
Featuring Katie Bell
In Switzerland, people will be surprised at a bus that's 2min late. In Sydney, people will only consider it noteworthy if a bus is more than 20min late, and this varies greatly between routes and providers. So, how do Sydney bus routes stack up? And if we're talking about privatisation, how do...
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Containers in Production
Featuring Katie Bell
Docker containers are appearing everywhere. They give you a reproducible and isolated environment for your code to run in. Great, so how do I take my container and run it in production? I need load balancing, service discovery, autoscaling, logging etc. and they don't magically appear in...software-development -
Is the 370 the worst bus in Sydney?
Featuring Katie Bell
In Switzerland, people will be surprised at a bus that's 2min late. In Sydney, people will only consider it noteworthy if a bus is more than 20min late, and this varies greatly between routes and providers. So, how do Sydney bus routes stack up? And if we're talking about privatisation, how do...data -
Consistent Storage or Scalable Storage – Why Not Both?
Featuring Katie Bell
Relational databases are the product of decades of research and optimisation, but when your business grows so big that a database reaches breaking point, where can you turn? On the other side of the fence are a variety of noSQL databases which sell on scalability and cheaper hardware but come...
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