I’m a software architect and technology enthusiast. I work at Avanade leading their Software Engineering & Architecture Center of Excellence. My passion is in finding good software architectures and also good culture, processes, practices etc. I like technology and want the industry to grow, mature and become more inclusive. I also like training for American Ninja Warrior but hold no misconceptions that I’ll ever appear on the show :)

Recent Posts

What kind of game is business?

6 minute read

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

6 minute read

Microservices are often thought as the modern way to build cloud native applications, so are containers. The question addressed here is whether microservices...

Queues or Topics, and how many?

10 minute read

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

3 minute read

This week I was asked the question 2 separate times - How do you handle [partial] failures in microservices? Here’s how…