Welcome to the online home of David Dawson
I am a freelance systems architect and software engineer specialising in Microservices, high performance systems and IoT.
I founded the London Microservices User Group (2.5k members)
I created the Muon open source Microservice platform
I am available to hire
Recent Articles and Talks
August 13, 2017
Building Reactive Microservices using Muon and scaling them using Kafka, Cassandra and friends
Learn how Muon helps you to build highly portable polyglot Reactive Microservices. The Muon model lets you implement your systems quickly from widely available and easy to use technologies, then scale it naturally by bringing in systems like Kafka, Cassandra and Hazelcast. This can be done wtihout changing your application code.
Read moreJuly 10, 2017
Styles of Event Architecture
Event architectures are undergoing a renaissance in the brave world of Microservices. What are the different types of event architecture you can apply?
Read moreApril 06, 2017
Generic DAO in Spring with Parameterized Types
In this post I document how we created the Repository system in the Newton framework. Enabling auto creation of repositories and injection of interfaces that use Generics
Read moreFebruary 28, 2017
Building a deploy environment on AWS- Experiments with Rancher and Kubernetes
Rancher is an orchestrator of orchestration for containerised systems. I needed to upgrade my systems management to be more automated and robust, Rancher seemed a good option due to the flexibility. In this blog, I document some experiences with the tool/
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Archives
August 2017
July 2017
April 2017
February 2017
- Building a deploy environment on AWS- Experiments with Rancher and Kubernetes
- Muon Developer Diary
- Introducing Muon
- Shutting down Simplicity Itself
November 2016
July 2016
March 2016
June 2015
- Defining The Microservice Architecture
- Service Discovery Overview
- Microservices Security: OAuth vs Session
March 2015
February 2015
- Retiring Microservices Using Strangulation
- Avoid Microservice Platform Lock In using Service Discovery
January 2015
- The Role of Data in Microservices
- Sharing Code Between Microservices?
- Development by Slogan with DRY: Part 3, DRY vs WET
- Development by Slogan with DRY: Part 2, The Tower of Coupling
- Development by Slogan with DRY: Part 1, Really DRY