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I’ve been working with the team at Aurena in Austria since the beginning of 2021. It’s been a lot of fun, and interesting work. They’ve helped put a lot of…

The rise and hopefully fall of system Entities as a modelling approach for Microservices

This was written in early August of 2017 as a form of personal catharsis. I don’t know if I will publish it, if you’re reading then I obviously have done.…

Gorm is the data access layer in Grails. I’ve been mostly away from Grails since 3.0 landed (for reasons). I’ve recently been taking a look at how things have come…

TL/DR Microservices == distributed systems. RPC is well known for creating fragility in systems, Muon offers a way of building others kinds of APIs, based on Reactive principles while keeping…

What is an event architecture?

What are the different ways you can build using events?

If you don’t build properly, your eventually consistent system will become “hopefully consistent”, and fail.

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…

Since coming back to freelancing, I’ve (re)started a set of projects with clients, managing them end to end. This means that I need a deployment environment somewhere that I can…

Recently (June 2015), I gave a talk at the DDD Exchange at Skills Matter in London. This was a little last minute! The (then Simplicity Itself) CTO, Russ Miles, was…

No programmer likes to plan for their work to be taken offline and shutdown, but part of good antifragile thinking is allowing things that aren’t successful, to end. Applying that…