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Managing costs on Amazon Web Services

The original article was written in 2017. All of the below recommendations are still valid.

However, since the article was first published AWS released a lot of new features and products to help customers better manage their cloud…

MasterFlow — Simple Git Branching

It’s the stuff a techies dreams are made of, you start work on a new project and get to decide what branching strategy to apply! However your dream can quickly become a nightmare if you choose a common or well known branching strategy without really considering the…

The Data Storage Revolution

Life used to be relatively simple for the architect who wanted to store data somewhere. The relational database management system (RDBMS) was the world-conquering gold standard. All you really had to do was pick between proprietary and open source, and then a select few vendors…

Product Management for Platforms

Over the last 10 years, we’ve seen a significant shift in how organisations interact with their…

Priorities, priorities, priorities.

So you’ve got some bunch of money. You have some amount of time. You also have stuff to get done.

Users need to use, developers need to develop, user researchers need to research users and we need to make sure what we build is actually…

#sharethefail

Things go wrong

Regularly.

Magic. My Macbook has been stolen.

My work Macbook got stolen. The how isn’t important really, thankfully it didn’t involve any violence. But the aftermath is what I hope will be interesting for people.