I recently delivered one of my favorite talks - Living with OCD at BACON 2014. This talk covers my OCD tendencies as well as how I cope with them. The slides can be found on SpeakerDeck.

I was invited by the Carnegie Mellon Information Systems Department to speak about "DevOps". These are the slides from that talk. I posed the following question to the students and asked them to keep it in the back of their minds as we discussed the creation an...

Originally given at ChefConf 2014, this talk simply titled "Chef Sugar" covers the who, what, when, where, and why for Chef Sugar. The talk begins as a small history lesson, but ends by diving deep into the Ruby internals of Chef Sugar to see who everything is ...

Optimizing for the important things is one of my serious lightning talks. Originally given at Ignite Pittsburgh, this 5-minute motivational talk has been given in many cities including San Francisco and Portland.

Fletcher Nichol discusses what "infrastructure as code" means to a developer at DevOps Days: Portland.