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
January 05, 2018
Entity Oriented Microservices
The rise and hopefully fall of system Entities as a modelling approach for Microservices
Read moreSeptember 06, 2017
Groovy Gorm Shell Script
Groovy, for shell scripting, with a database! Gorm is the grails persistence tech, in this post you can see how to use it standalone in a shell script to do things.
Read moreSeptember 06, 2017
Diabetes at 35, 1 year in.
I got diabetes in 2015 at the age of 35. This is my write up, personal catharsis and general dialogue on what it felt like, what I eat now, and a bit of Stoicism mixed in
Read moreAugust 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.
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Archives
January 2018
September 2017
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