build

continous integration - automated build, test and packaging for of code to its deployable package.

2023

Software Qualities

Software Qualities

Software Architecture lives in quality, the hidden part which delights the customer

Self-Service

Self-Service

With distributed software delivery teams, the key to scaling, is empowerment.

Platform

Platform

You platform is more than just using AWS or Azure, its your application and integration architecture realised.

Architecture Decision Records

Architecture Decision Records

No more, i have no idea why we use this, lets understand really why we made that decision.

2022

Squads

Squads

Agile architecture is not just software and technology its how we work too

2020

Self-Cert Rotation with Istio

Self-Cert Rotation with Istio

notes to setup Certs for a dev server (becuase i will forget this)

Remove the Prefix from an Route in Istio

Remove the Prefix from an Route in Istio

this is common where the Istio will have some part of the route to identify which service, and will want to remove the identifier.

Istio Gateway in a different namspace to the VirtualService

Istio Gateway in a different namspace to the VirtualService

our services will be deployed in a number of seperate namespaces, this is how you can do the routing

enabling Isio Secure Ingress on Rancher

enabling Isio Secure Ingress on Rancher

simple extra config answer which is required

RabbitMQ - retries and deadletters

RabbitMQ - retries and deadletters

Ensuring messages are sent and handling errors is tricky

2019

EFK with .NET Core

EFK with .NET Core

.net core 3 - K8s with the EFK Stack

tech radar

tech radar

tech radars show how we can manage our technical platforms by mapping items in use against items of interest

.net core 3 - the new host.

.net core 3 - the new host.

.net core 3 - host now supports the port and adapter concept

what a vue

what a vue

an initial look at vue

TDD an IoC container - part 5 - Retrospective

TDD an IoC container - part 5 - Retrospective

using TDD to develop a simple IoC container.

TDD an IoC container - part 4 - Tools

TDD an IoC container - part 4 - Tools

using TDD to develop a simple IoC container.

TDD an IoC container - part 3 - Performance Refactor

TDD an IoC container - part 3 - Performance Refactor

using TDD to develop a simple IoC container.

2018

TDD an IoC container - part 2 - initial slice

TDD an IoC container - part 2 - initial slice

using TDD to develop a simple IoC container.

TDD an IoC container - part 1 - primer

TDD an IoC container - part 1 - primer

using TDD to develop a simple IoC container.

2017

Poco, Pojo means no Mojo.

Poco, Pojo means no Mojo.

what does Pojo and Poco mean to you?

Middleware - is the new AOP?

Middleware - is the new AOP?

a popular way to provide extensions in todays frameworks, is middleware

2016

use your own interface

use your own interface

coupling is something which impacts maintainability, interfaces are used to decouple, but they bring their own complexity.

dotnet three project setup

dotnet three project setup

dotnet services structure across multiple services for consistency

Microservices - part 3 - Service Location and Load Balancing

Microservices - part 3 - Service Location and Load Balancing

How do we route traffic to running instances of services?

2015

.Net and Docker

.Net and Docker

hosting dotnet in docker is really easy, lets look how.

Microservices - part 2 - Api Gateway

Microservices - part 2 - Api Gateway

Api Gateways, are great technology and technique to expose API’s of a platform, and encapsulate the complexity of the internal services

Microservices - part 1 - the boundary

Microservices - part 1 - the boundary

We say services, what is the scope, how do they communicate?

2014

Selenium and phantom

Selenium and phantom

running selenium server locally in a way that should complement using

Deployment - lets do a little CI and CD

Deployment - lets do a little CI and CD

source -> continous integration -> continous deployment

2013

embedded views

embedded views

we look at the core power of Nancy, and its MVC support

embedded views

embedded views

enbedded views, a step to modules

Hosting Nancy with Topshelf

Hosting Nancy with Topshelf

hello world using Nancy and topshelf

under the hood

under the hood

how can we see what is happening under the hood