Unwinding remote work is the worst of both worlds
Remote work has become increasingly popular in recent years as we’ve gone through a global pandemic, and I believe both employers and employees have realized...
2023
Synchronous Communication and large scale systems
A discussion of how synchronous communication at scale and what it might take to be successful
2021
Receiving messages from Azure Service Bus in C#
A quick demo showing how to receive messages from Service Bus using C# and .NET
Sending a messge on Azure Service Bus in C#
A quick demo showing how to send a message on Service Bus using C# and .NET
Creating an Azure Service Bus instance
A quick introduction to setting up a Azure Service Bus instance, a queue, and a topic and subscription pair.
Introduction to Message Brokers
A quick introduction to Message Brokers, what they’re good for and how we use them.
2020
Making Diagrams from Text
As we create software, it is very useful to be able to create diagrams about the software that we want to create, or have created. However this can be time c...
CQRS and Event Sourcing - are they the same?
Command Query Responsibility Seggregation, or CQRS for short, is a really common pattern. Even people who don’t know it often find out they have implemented...
Managing Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome is one of the challenges of modern software engineering, and probably tech in general. Lots of people have it, and they all wish they didn’...
Monoliths to Microservices! And Back Again?
Monoliths were once all the rage, but recently microservices have become the target state for everyone who wants to be trendy. Now it seems people are buckin...
Shu Ha Ri for learning Microservices
Shu Ha Ri is a concept in Japanese martial arts that describes the 3 stages of learning. It’s been borrowed a few times to discuss how people should learn co...
Working from home during Corona
Now almost everyone that can work from home is, I thought I would share my thoughts as someone who has worked from home for years, and manages a team of peop...
What kind of game is business?
Recently, a couple of coincidental but separate interactions in my life had led me to a view about company culture.
There’s no such thing as a microservice
Microservices are often thought as the modern way to build cloud native applications, so are containers. The question addressed here is whether microservices...
Occasionally Connected Servers - A Whitepaper
A common trend I see in consumer facing industries is the need to have local compute serve local experiences while keeping a larger organizational system in ...
Queues or Topics, and how many?
Message Brokered systems are increasingly common. What messaging concepts should we be using, Topics or Queues, and should we have a single one or many?
Handling Failures in Microservices
This week I was asked the question 2 separate times - How do you handle [partial] failures in microservices? Here’s how…
What is Digital Tranformation
Digital Transformation is one of hot buzzwords at the moment but it means many different things to many different people. I’ve been working with people on bu...
Messaging Brokers as a Single Point of Failure
Microservices architectures are increasingly being implemented with Message Brokers as a central component to facilitate Event Driven Architectures. Doesnt t...
2019
Business Messaging on Azure
Azure has a few different options for Events and Messaging, this is a look at which ones help with which requirements when writing business systems
New Amplifi Alien Router
I’ve recently been getting more and more complaints about the quality of the WiFI at home. Especially as there is more gaming, switch from Cable to Streaming...
Keeping Documentation in sync with Azure Devops
One of the real challenges as we write complex software is documenting it well, and keeping that documentation up to date. Here I show a technique I use for ...
Customizing Your Github Pages Blog
My last post was to get you setup with a github pages blog, this one will help you customize it so you can start blogging with it.
How to setup a GitHub pages blog
While there is a pretty good walk through of the GitHub things you need to do on that website. There is slightly more to it for a Windows person to get it ru...
Switching my blog to Github Pages
Over the last few months I have tried out a number of different blogging options from self hosting to hosted services. Recently I found out about github.io a...
APIs and Open Banking
Open Banking is a hot topic, especially in the banking industry at the moment. However I think its actually a trend that will have a broad range of effects a...
Using AWS Kinesis From .NET!
With .NET Core you can write and run C# on just about any platform, including Amazon Web Services. This post explains the challenge using AWS Kinesis from .NET
New Desk Setup
I have been working from my home for over 2 years now, since I moved from New Jersey to North Carolina. Recently I have decided to improve my home setup, ins...
2015
IT innovation requires a Technology Strategy
A simple piece of logic seems to recur in business-advice articles that always populate the Internet. Whatever the current hot trend, the writers dispense si...