Stockholm, which is one of my favorite cities, was one of the last places I visited before the COVID shutdown. I'm excited to be going back again after 4 years.

In February, I'm teaching a 2 day workshop: Designing microservices - responsibilities, APIs and collaborations

The workshop is immediately after the JFokus conference. To learn more and enroll please see the details.

As I previously described, one way organizations can prevent their descent into unmaintainable hell is by tracking the DORA metrics. However, those four metrics are not the only metrics that leaders should track and improve.

In this article, I describe another set of important metrics: the developer experience (DevEx) metrics.

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I’ve previously written about how Service Blueprints are a really useful tool for documenting and understanding the architecture of a system. A service blueprint is a diagram that shows the interactions between the user, and the architectural elements. Along the top of the blueprint are the steps of the user journey. Underneath each step are the architectural elements that enable that step.

Architecture is, as I’ve previously written, multi-dimensional. Each dimension has different types of architectural elements. In this post I’ll describe how service blueprints can be used to document the system operations that are discovered in step 1 of the Assemblage process.

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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 12th, 2024

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