Talks I’ve given and podcasts I’ve been on.

Podcasts

Serverless at New10 with Ricardo Torres (English)

Real World Serverless, 2020

When I was a Principal Engineer at New10, I had a chat with Yan Cui about how the company uses serverless to build and operate its services. They discuss the challenges of building and operating serverless applications, the benefits of serverless, and the tools and technologies used to build and operate them.

Talks

Serverless APIs (2019)

New10 meetup, Amsterdam, 2019

Ricardo presenting Serverless APIs to colleagues at the New10 office in Amsterdam.

Talking about building HTTP APIs with AWS Lambda on a meetup at New10. This is where my serverless journey started, one year before to be more precise.

I was given the task to ensure that API Gateway and Lambdas could serve HTTP requests for production workloads. This involved lots of research and development, benchmarking cold starts, a lot of trial and error, but eventually we made it happen. I had become a big fan of Koa in 2015, and taking from its await premise, I wrote a small and fast web framework targeting Lambdas weighing just 44kb which eventually powered dozens of microservices for many years.

React and Redux Love Web APIs (2017)

React Amsterdam Conference, 2017

A Memories app screenshot from 7 years on, showing Ricardo on stage at React Amsterdam with Web Audio code projected behind him.

During this period I was very curious about all Web APIs, so decided to mix React with Web Audio. The idea started during my tenure at Mycujoo, as a live commentary tool for football matches live streamed us.