Monthly Archives: September 2018

Scaling backend infrastructure to handle millions of phones (Mobile Refresh 2018)

I recently had the pleasure to speak at the 2018 Mobile Refresh conference held here in Wellington and did a talk introducing how we run some parts of the Sailthru Mobile platform, along with recommendations and advice to anyone else also building backends to support their mobile applications.

It’s more entry-level than some of my other infrastructure talks as it’s focused on people that are primarily mobile developers with maybe a limited set of infrastructure awareness.

Introduction to Xiaomi Zigbee IoT/Smart Home devices

I’ve recently been experimenting with Xiaomi Zigbee IoT/Smart Home devices. These devices are super affordable (approx $20-55NZD) and make it very easy and affordable to upgrade a home with useful smart devices.

My plan is to do a more detailed blog post at a later stage, but if you’re interested in learning more, I recorded a talk I made at the Wellington Home Automation Meetup a few weeks back that introduces these products and how I’m using them.