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Aug 20, 2017

Should your ever really need to “recharge your batteries”?

There’s a very common metaphor that I, along with many other it seems, have subscribed to for as long as I can remember— it’s the concept recharging one’s batteries. The theory goes that you work hard over a period of time at which point you kind of burn down the…

Motivation

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Motivation

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Jul 25, 2017

Quick tip: pre-fetched ivy2/maven dependencies in Docker base images

Given I generally develop on the JVM (Scala or Java), and given that I happen to be a big fan of containerisation in general, one of the biggest pain points I’ve come across with this combination is slooooooooooooooow docker image builds. Local caching of ivy2 and/or maven dependencies is something…

Docker

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Docker

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May 15, 2017

Listen to your software

“Listen to your software, when it’s calling for you” Anyone with a penchant for late 80’s pop power ballads will recognise my reference here to the smash hit record “Listen to your Heart” by the abundantly talented Swedish pop duo, Roxette. A song that that steadily builds momentum, scales rarely…

Software Engineering

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Software Engineering

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May 6, 2017

On tech hiring: lessons from the peloton

Given my love of both software engineering and cycling, I thought it would be an interesting experiment to draw parallels between them, specifically in the context of hiring, and with regard to skills and teamwork. The stereotypical technical interview process is broken. Those who know me well will attest to…

Cycling

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Cycling

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May 3, 2017

Technical Debt: Recognising the rate of interest

So, I’ve had this idea to break up technical debt into two high-level categories — high interest and low interest. Somebody may have already expanded the concept to this level of detail, but I came up with this on my own, thus it doesn’t count as plagiarism :-D A quick recap of technical debt Technical debt…

Software Development

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Software Development

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Jun 9, 2016

Practical Implementation Traits of Service Choreography Based Microservices Integration

This is the second post in a three part series looking at the topic of microservice integration. In the first installment, I focused mainly on the theory side of event-driven service choreography. In this second part, I’ll dig into the practical traits that we’ll require of our technical implementations that…

Microservices

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Microservices

11 min read


May 8, 2016

The Art of Microservices Integration Using Service Choreography

This is the first post in a three part series looking at the topic of microservice integration. In this first installment, I’ll be focusing mainly on the theory side of event-driven service choreography. In the second post, I’ll cover the implementation traits required to satisfy the theory discussed in this…

Microservices

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The Art of Microservices Integration Using Service Choreography
The Art of Microservices Integration Using Service Choreography
Microservices

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Feb 3, 2015

Customer Experience Makes the Difference

In this post, I’m going to dip my toes into the world of customer experience (CX). This isn’t a subject I’ve written about before, but a recent sub-optimal hotel experience during a trip to Belgium has prompted this analysis. Whilst this story does not relate specifically to technology, great customer…

Customer Experience

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Customer Experience

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Jan 21, 2015

A Confusing Side to Twelve Factor App Configuration

I’m sure I’m not the only one who breathed a sign of relief when the clever brains behind Heroku published the Twelve Factor App guidelines. …

Docker

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Docker

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Oct 2, 2014

Lessons From My First Startup Failure

It’s been a while since I last posted here, and good reason — I’ve been trying to run a startup! As this is a technically focused blog — and given my startup experiences were mainly commercially focused — I didn’t have all that much to say here. …

Entrepreneurship

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Entrepreneurship

4 min read

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