Videos: Twilio, Netflix, Stormpath

The following videos were recorded during Heavybit’s members-only Speaker’s Series. These events take place every week over the course of our nine month program and members are invited to meet with speakers on the evening of the presentation in addition to the option of joining office hours. The following HD videos are part of more than 50+ hours of Heavybit’s content catalogue.

Marketing

• Danielle Morrill on Twilio and Content Marketing for Developers: Twilio’s former Director of Marketing Danielle Morrill grew her community to 10,000+ developers in just a few years. Says Morrill, “The secret [to marketing] is in taking as much pride in the content you write, as in the code that you write.” She offers a number of content marketing suggestions for early-stage startups including ways startups can source, craft and repurpose their content.

Technical

• Jeremy Edberg on Scaling for Success and Failure at Reddit and Netflix: Having worked on some of the highest trafficked sites in the world, Jeremy Edberg solves for growth. Says the Netflix and Reddit infrastructure lead, “The key to scaling is finding your bottlenecks before your users do.”
• Stormpath CTO Les Hazlewood on Designing a Beautiful REST+JSON API: Designing a clean and intuitive REST + JSON API means worrying about resources, caching and scaling to support new features over time. CTO of Stormpath Les Hazlewood offers his tips on design, implementation and support.

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