Barry Jones
I build, teach and help people work better together @ Brightball
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
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I'm a Fractional CTO Consultant as well as an advocate and professional instructor for DMARC, Anti-Phishing, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, Elixir, SAFe and Gitlab with over 20 years industry experience.
I'm also the organizer of the Carolina Code Conference as of 2023.
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Story Points are Pointless...Measure Queues
Their creator has disavowed them. People cannot agree on what a story point even represents. The measure is different for every team that uses it. They sow confusion, create conflict, unreliable timelines, are easily gamed, demotivate and degrade the performance of your team.
For everyone involved, this is a waste of time. Let's deep dive into why Story Points are so broken and how to avoid dealing with them ever again.
Article First Published July 15th, 2024.
https://www.brightball.com/articles/story-points-are-pointless-measure-queues
The Time I Accidentally Ended Up Combatting Fraud for a Year
This is the story of the most intense year of my 20 year professional career. I was the sole developer hired by a company going through a circus-like ownership transition while criminals actively worked to defraud the 300,000 users of this 14 year old, high end marketplace.
We experienced late nights, numerous technical challenges, worked with abuse response teams, learned a lot of lessons about phishing and fraud, high emotions, death threats and at least one person lost a business that depended on the site. Here’s the story from start to finish, including how to prevent many of these problems on your own site. Buckle up.
Article First Published February 10th, 2023
https://www.brightball.com/articles/the-time-i-accidentally-ended-up-combating-fraud-for-a-year
KnoxDevs Quarterly: Lightning Talks at Barrelhouse Presented by CGI
Story Points are Pointless, Measure Queues
DEF CON 864
Security Automation with Gitlab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8m8s3UUOsY
BSides Greenville
The Time I Accidentally Ended Up Combating Fraud for a Year
DevSecCon Virginia
The Time I Accidentally Ended up Combating Fraud for a Year
https://www.devseccon.com/videos/the-time-i-accidentally-ended-up-combatting-fraud-for-a-year-by-barry-jones
Upstate Carolina Linux User Group (UCLUG)
Ansible and Terraform, the PB&J of DevOps
https://www.brightball.com/articles/ansible-and-terraform-the-pb-and-j-of-devops
Upstate Elixir
Full Time Elixir - After years of tinkering, what's it been like to get to work with Elixir full time?
eDataSource Client Conference
How DMARC Helped Me Save a Company
InfoSec Nashville
How DMARC Helped Me Save a Company
Upstate Carolina Linux User Group (UCLUG)
Do the Local Ansible – An introduction to learning Ansible by utilizing it to manage your location workstation and applications
Carolina Code Conference
What to Expect When You're Emailing
https://www.brightball.com/articles/what-to-expect-when-youre-emailing
Central Virginia ISSA
Guest Speaker - DMARC, SPF & DKIM
Carolina Code Conference
Repeating History...on Purpose...with Elixir
https://www.brightball.com/articles/repeating-history-with-elixir-again
Anti-Phishing Working Group eCrime Summit
Phishing Leaves a DMARC Trail
https://dmarcian.com/phishing-leaves-a-dmarc-trail/
Upstate Elixir
Repeating History...on Purpose...with Elixir
https://www.brightball.com/articles/repeating-history-on-purpose-with-elixir
UpstatePHP
Jenkins as a Cron Replacement - Using Jenkins to manage and track distributed schedule jobs across multiple servers.
ACS Technologies Developer Forum
Invisible Application Security - An internal developer forum aimed at protecting users of the companies applications without negatively impacting their user experience.
M3AAWG 35th General Meeting
Deploying DMARC While Under Attack
Upstate Carolina Linux User Group (UCLUG)
Microservices on Heroku - A detailed look at the infrastructure and application trade offs from monoliths and micro service architecture, as well as how Heroku helps to remove many road blocks.
UpstatePHP
Protecting Users from Phishing and Fraud
https://www.brightball.com/articles/protecting-users-from-phishing-and-fraud
UpstatePHP
Go from a PHP Perspective
https://www.brightball.com/articles/go-from-a-php-perspective
ACS Technologies Developer Forum
Adopting PostgreSQL - An internal developer forum focused to PostgreSQL tailored to the experiences of a SQL Server oriented company.
UpstatePHP
SQL vs NoSQL Discussion with Benjamin Young (NoSQL) and Barry Jones (SQL)
https://www.brightball.com/articles/video-sql-vs-nosql-discussion-at-upstatephp
UpstatePHP
What's the "right" PHP Framework?
https://www.brightball.com/articles/whats-the-right-php-framework
ACS Technologies Developer Forum
Pair Programming the Lightning Talk Version
UpstatePHP
PostgreSQL: It's Kind've a Nifty Database
https://www.brightball.com/articles/postgresql-its-kindve-a-nifty-database
ACS Technologies Developer Forum
AWS re:Invent 2013 Recap - Group presentation from the attendees about the top learning and lessons to share that came out of the trip to re:Invent 2013.
The Iron Yard - Guest Lecturer
Exploring Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL
https://www.brightball.com/articles/exploring-ruby-on-rails-and-postgresql
Refresh Greenville
Managing Overload - The effects of over commitment combined with Murphy’s Law.
Refresh Greenville
Purpose Driven Scalability Presentation – A look at application scalability and the specific requirements that drive each scaling approach in a given situation.
Barry Jones
I build, teach and help people work better together @ Brightball
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
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