Bio
James Thomas is a Developer Advocate for IBM’s Cloud division. James is a huge fan of all thing serverless! He spends his time speaking at conferences, blogging or writing open-source code to share the awesomeness of serverless cloud platforms. James is a committer on Apache OpenWhisk, the open-source serverless platform. He wrote (and maintains) the official JavaScript client library. He also created the OpenWhisk provider plugin for The Serverless Framework.
My Talks
Microservices Without Servers
Servers are killing your productivity. Rather than building software, you end up constantly distracted by maintaining computers. Wasn't the "cloud" supposed to fix this? It sounded so promising unt...
Serverless Machine Learning with TensorFlow
How do we use Tensorflow with serverless cloud platforms to bring the benefits of serverless (elastic scaling, low costs and no charge for idle) to the task of machine learning in the cloud?
This ...
Serverless Swift with Apache OpenWhisk
Do you want to build backend applications using Swift but don't want to manage computing infrastructure to run those applications in the cloud?
Come and learn how to build scalable Swift microser...
Serverless: The Missing Manual
Do serverless cloud platforms leave you with more questions than answers? This session is for developers who see the benefits of serverless but are struggling to adjust to a serverless world.