Tweet This talk by Kyle Kingsbury (aka @aphyr on twitter) was my favourite at CraftConf, and gave us an update on the state of consistency with MongoDB, Elasticsearch and Aerospike.   Kyle opened the talk by talking about how we so often build applications on top of databases, queues, streams, etc. and that these systems

Tweet This talk by Richard Rodger (of nearForm) was my favourite at this year’s CodeMotion conference in Rome, where he talked about why we need to change the way we think about monitoring when it comes to measuring micro-services.   TL; DR Identify invariants in your system and use them to measure the health of

Tweet Joy of Coding has totally exceeded my expectations and proved to be one of the best conferences I have attended this year (and there has been a few already ).  Rotterdam is also a city I’d like to visit again — it’s quiet, clean, packed full of beautiful architectures and the people are so friendly and helpful! “happy speakers, happy attendees”

Tweet One of my key takeaways from Tammer Saleh’s microservices anti-patterns talk at CraftConf is that we need to record correlation IDs to help us debug microservices.   Why do we need Correlation IDs? Suppose a user request comes in and after various aspects of the request has been handled by several services something goes

Tweet In enterprises we tend to sell architectural projects by showing you the current messy state and pitch you an idealized end state. But the problem is that, the ideal end state we’re pitching exists only as an idea, without having gone through all the compromises and organic growth that made the current state messy. Once