David OliverTable Stakes: What is expected of a modern software developer?Table stakes is a bit of business jargon, loosely taken from poker, that is used to describe the minimum offering it takes to be in the…Sep 4, 2021Sep 4, 2021
David OliverIncrease REST API development velocity by ditching application/jsonAfter creating a few RESTful apis I’ve learnt the hard way that agreeing on the structure of the messages going backwards and forwards can…Oct 30, 2019Oct 30, 2019
David OliverRethinking Java Application PackagingI’ve recently been working on a couple of new applications and wondering, why is it that there is something not quite right about them …Mar 18, 2019Mar 18, 2019
David OliverReflections on retrospectivesComing into yesterday’s retrospective I was excited and nervous as I’d been selected to facilitate the teams end of iteration…Mar 2, 2017Mar 2, 2017
David OliverGoCD lessons learntTwelve months ago our team ran a spike that led to our adoption of GoCD as our CI tool. The spike showed that there were a number of…Jan 26, 2017Jan 26, 2017
David OliverClojure eXchange 2015Two enjoyable days at skills matter in London, finding out how people are putting Clojure to work and getting some excellent results. I…Dec 6, 2015Dec 6, 2015