Building a Sports Calendar Service
An overview of building a sports calendar service using Angular, S3 + Cloudfront Hosting, and NestJS Lambda functions.
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Getting Things Done
Getting Things Done (GTD) is a productivity system that helps you manage your tasks and time effectively.
Content Security Policy - Part 1
Figuring out a âproperâ CSP for my site was a process of elimination; a repeating cycle of whack-a-mole, adding parameters to the policy to remove error mess...
Technology Behind This Site
This site is based on Jekyll Content Management System with Content Hosted on the Amazon Cloud.
Pod Team Structure + MicroServices - Conwayâs Law Harnessed
Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.</p...
Scrum Development with Jira & JIRA Agile
A great idea is important, but execution is key! Improve your chances of success with Scrum and JIRA Agile. Scrum Development with Jira & JIRA Agile http...
Scaling Applications with Microservices and NServiceBus 5
This course teaches .NET programmers what microservices are and how to implement them with NServiceBus messaging. This is a useful course for anybody start...
OAuth2 and OpenID Connect Strategies for AngularJS and ASP.NET
When you're building an Angular or ASP.NET MVC-based application, sooner or later you'll want to secure it - preferably sooner rather than later. In this cou...
Lean Software Development Fundamentals
Deliver software more efficiently than ever before. In this course, you'll explore Lean Software Development and how it can benefit your software projects an...
Why We Need DevOps - Gene Kim
Gene Kim, author of the Phoenix Project will share his favorite principles and prescriptive patterns to follow to replicate the extraordinary culture and out...
Kanban Development With Jira
This course introduces Kanban/Agile development With Jira provide a smooth, quick, and easy path for developers and IT personnel to learn about and adopt K...
An Intro to Wardley Mapping
Use maps to create Situational Awareness, Identify Pain Points & Strategise for the future.
Getting Started with Consul
Consul is a tool that provides Service Discovery, Distributed Failure Detection, and a Key/Value Store with support for multiple datacenters. In this course,...
Domain-Driven Design in Practice
A descriptive, in-depth walk-through for applying Domain-Driven Design principles in practice. Domain-Driven Design in Practice https://app.pluralsight.com/...
Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey Moore
Crossing the Chasm is a marketing book by Geoffrey A. Moore that focuses on the specifics of marketing high tech products during the early start up period. ...
Clean Architecture: Patterns, Practices, and Principles
In this course, you will learn about Clean Architecture, a set of modern patterns, practices, and principles for creating software architecture that is simpl...
Building Mobile Apps With the Ionic Framework and AngularJS
This code-focused Pluralsight course shows how to build cross-platform mobile apps with the Ionic Framework and AngularJS. The Ionic Framework represents an ...
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS is the most popular and most widely used cloud platform in the world. This course will teach you design principles, including strategies for networking, ...
Architectures for enabling serendipity
Strategic enablement of foundational architecture in your platform can help your product and IT teams discover new ways to create value from your organizatio...
Token-Based Architecture Design
In the course of designing and using web APIs & services, tokens are everywhere: access tokens for OAuth, CSRF tokens for security, reset tokens for pass...
OAuth and OpenID Connect for Microservices
In this talk, Jacob Ideskog will illustrate how OAuth and OpenID Connect can be leveraged to created a unified distributed authentication and authorisation f...
Introduction to IdentityServer
Modern applications require modern security and the OpenID Connect and OAuth2 security protocols are designed to meet this need. These videos give an introdu...
Eric Ries: âThe Lean Startupâ
Bringing principles from lean manufacturing and agile development to the process of innovation, the Lean Startup helps companies succeed in a business landsc...
Eric Evans â Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Eric Evans is the author of âDomain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in Softwareâ. This a good conference talk to that outlines the basic concepts of Domai...
Distributed Podcast
Very interesting 12 episode podcast that discusses Distributed Architecture, CQRS, Event Sourcing, DDD. With Rinat Abdullin, Jonathan Oliver, Jimmy Bogard. ...
Simon Sinek: Excellent videos on the importance of âWhy?â in motivation & success
Simon talks about technology, millennials, and the importance of practicing empathy. In his talk, Simon Sinek, consultant and author, explain the emergency f...
Principles Of Microservices by Sam Newman
Microservices are small services with independent lifecycles that work together. There is an underlying tension in that definition - how independent can you ...
Pluralsight Course Preview: Getting Started with Kubernetes
i'm looking forward to taking this course - containers will be a key part of MicroService architecture operations (IMO!).
Monitoring Microservices ⢠Tom Wilkie
The rise of microservice-based applications has had many knock-on effects, not least on the complexity of monitoring your application.
Microservices at Netflix Scale: Principles, Tradeoffs & Lessons Learned
Netflix's world leading streaming service is comprised of hundreds of microservices. We will cover explicit technology choices we made for all of the microse...
Microservice Panel ⢠F. George, R. Johnson, J. Kerr, M. Nygard & S. Newman
An interesting debate about Microservices from highly respected panelists; Fred George, Rod Johnson, Jessica Kerr, Michael Nygard, Sam Newman.
The Idiotâs Guide to Quashing Microservices
So your boss, annoying coworker, or random stranger has cornered you and started screaming at you that micro services are the answer to every problem youâve ...
Higher Order Infrastructure - Microservices on the Docker Swarm
Imagine a new kind of cluster. One which takes control of new machines on the fly, deploys all your services in the right order, links related applications t...
GOTO 2017 ⢠The Many Meanings of Event-Driven Architecture ⢠Martin Fowler
People describe their systems as "event-driven". But when looking deeper that phrase seems to lead to some very different architectural assumptions.
It is not just Microservices ⢠Fred George
MicroServices has officially come of age. The first book is out, with more on the way. Dedicated conferences exist. MeetUps have been running for months. But...
DDD & Microservices ⢠Eric Evans
Microservices are associated with extreme isolation (e.g. no shared database, autonomous dev-ops teams, etc.) At its best, this creates a practical boundary ...
Explaining Agile - Martin Fowler and Neal Ford at USI
Martin Fowler and Neal Ford tackle the following question: Why does Agile software development work so well? They provide advice and stress the importance of...
Domain Driven Design: The Good Parts - Jimmy Bogard
The greenfield project started out so promising. Instead of devolving into big ball of mud, the team decided to apply domain-driven design principles. Ubiqui...
Building a High-Performance Team is Everyoneâs Job
Building great teams isn't just something that managers do alone, with spreadsheets and workflows and process documents. Great teams come from the participat...
Home Automation
RF vs Zigbee in 2024
Comparing RF and Zigbee technologies for home automation in 2024, with insights on simplifying system maintenance using Zigbee.
Home Infrastructure
OpenHAB is a lot of fun :) It is a platform for home automation that I use extensively in my home.
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Back in Action: 2024+ Tech & AI
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Welcome to my new site. Please excuse the mess while I am getting this set up :)
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Building a Sports Calendar Service
An overview of building a sports calendar service using Angular, S3 + Cloudfront Hosting, and NestJS Lambda functions.
Productivity
AI, Driving Productivity - Integrating GTD with Machine Learning Tools
Explore how integrating AI and machine learning tools can supercharge your GTD workflow, automating tasks and enhancing collaboration through platforms like ...