What is ORAS and why should you care?
Most systems we build today are delivered as containers. Container registries and associated technologies are an important cog in this ecosystem. As the cont...
Instrument MQTT based python messaging app using Open Telemetry
Some time back I did a bit of an intro to OpenTelemetry and in there I covered some basics like what Signals and Context Propagation are. I also spoke about ...
Lessons learned from doing EdgeDevOps (GitOps) in the bush, air and underwater - API Days Australia 2022
I recently spoke at API Days Australia about my experiences building distributed systems and some challenges my team faced deploying and running them on the ...
Propagating context and tracing across your distributed process boundaries using OpenTelemetry - API Days Australia 2021
I spoke at API Days Australia about my experiences building distributed systems and some challenges I’ve faced. We are amidst the 2nd wave of cloud migratio...
Going down the rabbit hole of EF Core and converting strings to dates
I am working on a greenfield project that uses EF Core 6 with AspNetCore 6 at the moment. The project involves exposing a set of legacy data through an API. ...
Object Capability Model And Mapping
Almost any type of software development work requires some sort mapping in the logic. Either from the persistence models to domain model or from the domain m...
The Shell Game Called Eventual Consistency - API Days Jakarta 2021
A few weeks ago I spoke at API Days Jakarta about some of experiences building distributed systems. As more and more companies take their businesses to the ...
Not All “Microservices Frameworks” Are Made The Same - NDC Sydney 2020
Last October I spoke at NDC Sydney about the pitfalls associated with microservices frameworks and how you can still leverage libraries and runtimes to help ...
Building Distributed Systems on the Shoulders of Giants - API Days Live, Australia 2020
I recently spoke about building distributed systems at API Days Australia conference. My talk is titled Building distributed systems on the shoulders of gian...
Converting a Visual Studio database project to use DbUp migrations
Database projects in Visual Studio have been a very popular way to develop and manage the database schema and logic in the past. With more and more applicati...