In the near future, I'll be in Bangalore, Singapore, Seoul and Melbourne!

I'm available for remote and in-person workshops and talks. If you are interested in having me visit your company please contact me directly.

I'm also giving this public talk in Singapore: Microservices: what good looks like

I'm available to teach a microservice architecture at your organization - either online or in person - between now and the end of the year.

There are two to choose from:

• Designing microservices: responsibilities, APIs and collaborations - Through a combination of lectures, discussions, and kata exercises, I will walk you through distilling your application’s requirements into a collection of loosely coupled, appropriately-sized services.
• Hands on Microservice architecture and design workshop - Through a series of architectural katas you will learn about the key aspects of the microservice architecture. Appropriate for technology leaders, architects and developers using any language. 

Also, if there are other related workshop topics that your organization wants to learn about I'd love to hear your suggestions. Please let me know!

Over the past year, I’ve talked to numerous developers who have said

"our application is ‘****’, it’s so complex and so difficult to change"

I’d expect to hear comments like this about ancient legacy systems. But I’m also hearing the exact same comments about systems that are only a couple of years old. It seems that far too often our shiny new architectures, tools and technologies simply accelerate the development of bad software.

My explanation is that organizations are so focused on delivering features that they neglect the fundamentals of software design. In this article, I’ll talk about four often neglected fundamentals of software design:

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A really good way for all stakeholders to gain a shared understanding of both end-users and the application architecture is to use service blueprints. A service blueprint is a diagram that shows the interactions between the user, and the architectural elements.

What's more, my good friend Indu Alagarsamy is teaching a couple of workshops on service blueprints on November 15th at times that work well for all timezones.

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It covers the key distributed data management patterns including Saga, API Composition, and CQRS.

The bootcamp consists of video lectures, quizzes and code walk-throughs/labs. It's self-paced and you can start at any time. There is a weekly ask-me-anything video conference repeated in multiple timezones.

Use the coupon KQAWEXBH to sign up for $120 ($275 discount!!). There are bigger discounts for buying multiple seats (10+ and 20+). Bulk purchases come with the option of private, paid Q&A sessions. Valid until November 14th, 2023

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