In the near future, I'll be in Seoul, Melbourne, Sweden, London and Denver

I'm available for remote and in-person workshops, talks and consulting. If you are interested, please contact me directly.

I will be at the following meetups/conferences:

• January 17th 2024, Melbourne (Australia) Platform Engineering Meetup
• February 5-7th, JFokus, Stockholm - talk; 1/2 day and 2 day workshops
• March 12th-15th, ExploreDDD, Denver, CO - 2 day workshop

I'm available to teach a microservice architecture workshop at your organization - either online or in person.

There are three 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.
• Microservices: what good looks like (NEW) - Learn how to accelerate software delivery by applying modern software development practices and using the microservice architecture effectively by avoiding the pitfalls.

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!

A good way for an organization to prevent software from degenerating into an unmaintainable mess is to hold its leaders accountable for measuring and improving the performance and productivity of the software development organization. In this article, I describe one set of metrics that organizations should track and improve: the DORA metrics. I cover what good looks like for each metric. I also briefly describe how to capture and improve these metrics.

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The microservice architecture has become increasingly popular over the past decade. Its key benefits include significantly improving the developer experience and accelerating software delivery. Sadly, however, microservices have often been widely misunderstood and used inappropriately. As a result, many organizations have struggled to benefit from their adoption.

In this presentation I describe what good looks like when developing with microservices. I describe the key characteristics of the microservice architecture and how it differs from the monolithic architecture. You will learn when you should use microservices and when you should not. I describe the ideal developer experience when using the microservice architecture. You will also learn what other changes you must make to your organization when adopting microservices.

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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 HVQSSCEY 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 January 11th, 2024

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