# Chris Morris

> Coffee. Code. Complete

## About

Hi I'm Chris, and I attempt to solve lifes problems one line at a time.

## Talks

### From Propeller to Jet: Changing your engines mid flight

> Kafka Summit SF - Oct 16-17th 2018

Don’t you love signing in to your favorite application only to find out it’s undergoing scheduled maintenance? I know I don’t! Designing scalable systems is a challenge all software engineers face. Ultimately this means you will find yourself in a situation where you need to upgrade your software engines for better performance. In this session, I will guide you through the experience of swapping out PagerDuty’s original prop engine consisting of a Cassandra queue-based system to that of a 747 which utilizes Kafka not only for ingestion of customer data but also internal heuristics and back pressure support.

[Watch Talk](https://www.confluent.io/kafka-summit-sf18/from-propeller-to-jet)

## Projects of Interest

• > Monitor sports scores from your terminal.
  [Bushleague](https://github.com/morriswchris/bushleague)
  
• > Receive sports scores using RxJS observable streams.
  [Tally](https://github.com/morriswchris/tally)
  
• > Auto add contributors to your GitHub Projects.
  [Contributin](https://contributin.herokuapp.com/)
  
• > Send RSS feeds to your Kindle.
  [Nindle](https://github.com/morriswchris/nindle)
  

## Social Following

• * [Blog - Awful, Slow and Expensive](https://chris.themorrises.xyz/blog/)
• * [GitHub @morriswchris](http://github.com/morriswchris)
• * [Resume](http://morriswchris.github.io/resume/)
• * [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/morriswchris)
• * [Twitter](http://twitter.com/morriswchris)

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