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Decomposing applications for deployability and scalability – Part 2

In April 2012, I started giving a talk called Decomposing applications for deployability and scalability. It discusses the benefits and drawbacks of decomposing a monolithic application into a collection of independently deployable and scalable services and explores various design issues … Continue reading

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Around the world in 14 days: SpringOne Hyderabad

After SpringOne Beijing and SpringOne Bangalore, Hyderabad was the third stop on the fourteen day trip. This was my first visit to the city, which seems to have a richer history than Bangalore, and a lot more to see as a … Continue reading

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Around the world in 14 days: SpringOne Bangalore

After SpringOne Beijing, the second stop on my 14 day tour was Bangalore, India. This was my third time in Bangalore (since July!) and I love the place: the fantastic ITC Gardenia hotel, the delicious food (e.g. Dosa/Idli/Paratha for breakfast, Kebabs … Continue reading

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Around the world in 14 days: SpringOne China December 2012

The final trip of 2012 was an amazing 14 day trip to China, India and Dubai. The first stop was Beijing for SpringOne China. This was my second time in Beijing and I really enjoyed being there. The Great Wall Sheraton … Continue reading

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Finding my inner trekkie

Last weekend wasn’t the typical weekend at home: kids sports, work, etc.. Instead, I went to the San Francisco Star Trek convention to get in touch with my inner trekkie. This was  my first time and I had a blast. The … Continue reading

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Sell t-shirts and launch your own satellite – #Oredev 2012

Last week I attended the excellent Oredev conference. This was my first time at Oredev, which covers a wide range of software development topics and takes place in Malmo, Sweden. I gave a talk titled Polyglot application development on Cloud Foundry. Here are the … Continue reading

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Shakespeare on software: Love is blind

Here is something to consider when thinking about and discussing software: But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a … Continue reading

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Java University, JavaOne and Silicon Valley Code Camp

Except for PhillyETE, and GlueCon, most of the conferences I’ve been to this year have been overseas, e.g.  JavaZone, JFokus, QCon London, and Egyptian Java developers conference and the Cloud Foundry open tour in Ukraine, Russia, England, and India etc..  Consequently,  it … Continue reading

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Developers are like cars

Recently @vambenepe tweeted An excellent developer who doesn’t think like a PM is like a tennis player with awesome shots but who doesn’t aim. This tweet reminded me of another excellent analogy that I’d heard many years ago: Developers are like cars. They … Continue reading

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Awesome JavaZone 2012 – Oslo, Norway

I recently attended the JavaZone 2012 conference in Oslo, Norway. This was my third time at the conference and just like previous years it was awesome. At JavaZone, I gave the latest version of my Decomposing applications for scalability and … Continue reading

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