I’ve been seeing the Prime Video “Microservices to Monoliths” post since it came out, because some of my (so called) friends have been sharing another highly biased post that referenced it from someone very influential in tech, but who I don’t want to boost (initials D and H and H). …

I’ve been using and making Wardley Maps for a few years now. They are a hugely useful tool for me to be able to quickly understand a problem space, and also to quickly return to a problem I am looking. One of the biggest hurdles for pretty much all people…

Where do you start when you want to learn serverless? I’ve been trying to figure that one out for years. I genuinely wish I could work out how to figure this out because there has been a huge need to get developers up to speed with serverless for several years. The lack of a clear path from “developer” or “cloud…

If you don’t understand why this is, then you’re doing serverless wrong. The reason is that serverless systems are built on a foundation of building tiny and highly or completely decoupled systems within a much wider system. Software systems and software engineering is predicated on interaction and interoperability. The prevailing…

I’ve been watching in horror at yet another mass shooting at a school in the United States. The story of an 18 year old shooting 19 kids and 2 adults at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas should be enough for any country to decide that gun control should be…

Previous post: An… attempt to be based Ventilation, is what yah need. Apologies for the Roy Castle reference… I couldn’t help it. Anyway, back to what happens when you build a garden office. It’s often a separate building, small, and one of the big criticisms is that it’s difficult…

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Previous post: So… that’s a glorified shed In this little saga, I had come up with some rules as to why I wanted a garden office: I needed a space to do actual work. Simply put, a desk and a computer, and quiet where I could have video calls as…

Previous post: And so it begins… I need more space Once you’ve decided that you need a garden office, the first thing most people do is go to the internet. You type in “garden office” and the responses are great. …