Some enterprises have grown their technical infrastructure to the point where dev ops and continuous deployment are second nature. The vast majority of enterprises are still on their journey, or don't even realise there is a journey for them to take. Businesses aren't generally built around great software development practices - many businesses are set … Continue reading Avoiding Delivery Hell
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What’s Slowing Your Business?
There are lots of problems that prevent businesses from responding to market trends as quickly as they'd like. Many are not IT related, some are. I'd like to discuss a few problems that I see over and over again, and maybe present some useful solutions. As you read this, please remember that there are always … Continue reading What’s Slowing Your Business?
Making Decisions with Cynefin
A friend tweeted recently about how it isn’t always possible to decide late on which product to use for data storage as different products often force an application to use different patterns. This got me thinking about making other decisions in software design. In general it’s accepted that deciding as late as possible is usually a … Continue reading Making Decisions with Cynefin
Going Deep Enough with Microservices
Moving from a monolith architecture to microservices is a widely debated process, with many recommendations and nuggets of advice available on the web in blogs like this. There are so many different opinions out there mainly because where an enterprise finds their main complexities lay depends on the skillsets of their technologists, the domain knowledge … Continue reading Going Deep Enough with Microservices
User Secrets in asp.NET 5
Accidentally pushing credentials to a public repo has never happened to me, but I know a few people for whom it has. AWS have an excellent workaround for this by using credential stores that can be configured via the CLI or IDE but this technique only works for IAM user accounts, it doesn't allow you … Continue reading User Secrets in asp.NET 5
When Things Just Work
A particularly tricky epic hits the development team's radar. The Product Manager has been mulling it over for a while, has a few use cases from end users and has scoped things pretty well. He's had a session with the Product Owner who has since fleshed things out into an initial set of high priority stories … Continue reading When Things Just Work