Microservices & Distributed Systems in General The growth in popularity of distributed systems is not without reason. Organisations have found that the separation of workstreams along domains / business capabilities has provided teams with a greater degree of product ownership....
It may initially seem that doctors and web developers don’t have that much in common, but an episode of Freakonomics Radio looking at the Hippocratic oath a while ago got me thinking about what a general code of good practice...
Introduction The purpose of Enterprise Architecture is to optimize across the enterprise the often fragmented legacy of processes (both manual and automated) into an integrated environment that is responsive to change and supportive of the delivery of the business strategy....
Introduction Redis (REmote DIctionary Server) is an open source in-memory data structures server. Similarly to key-value stores, like Memcached, data on Redis is held in key-value pairs. Differently though, while in key-value stores both the key and the value are...
Earlier this year while it was available I sat an online proctored exam for the new Beta version of the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Certification exam (SOA-C02), for more information you can check out the Exam Guide. These...
Background Digital Advertising is a form of marketing which uses the Internet to deliver promotional messages to consumers. In the Digital Advertising ecosystem there are 3 main actors: consumers, who are the recipients of the messages advertisers, who are the...
Introduction In my previous post we looked at getting started with Elasticsearch, covering some basic concepts and getting some hands on. In this article I want to expand on that, taking a deeper dive and covering the following: Importing large...
In a previous blog post I wrote about how Spring Boot and Kubernetes are widely used together when building modern microservices. This post is a natural sequel to the aforementioned post, so it’s worth reading that first if you haven’t...
Spring Boot and Kubernetes go hand in hand when building modern microservices. Spring Boot is a widely used JVM-based framework which allows you to build out stand-alone, production grade applications. Kubernetes is an open source container management and orchestration system,...
Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate - Martin Chalfie Imagine if I was to approach you during your lunch and tell you that there has been an increase in customer raised...
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