How is this exciting role different? What new skills do you need and how to develop them? — A Lead Software Engineer is a wonderful place in one’s career. By then you’re confident in your skills, learned much from your past mistakes, are highly regarded by your engineering colleagues, as well as business stakeholders and your work is a lot of fun — you build (hopefully) very exciting…

Is this the right approach for you? When to go for it and when to pass? — In this multipart series, we will go step by step in creating a simple event-driven system. In Part 1 we compare this approach with a classic point-to-point communication and look at the advantages and disadvantages of both. In the last few years, several teams I’ve worked with have considered an…

Five books that had and continue to have a huge impact on my career in Software Engineering. — Many years ago, when I was starting my Software Engineering career, I read a book about the popular Java framework, Spring, to come up to speed on my new project. Back then the framework was little more than just a Dependency Injection library, which is only a very small part…

This is Part 3 of the Monorepos for Microservices series. Read Part 1 on the pros and cons of a monorepo and Part 2 on structuring the monorepo source code. The full source code for this article can be found here. Picking up from the previous part — we’re decided…

This is Part 2 of the Monorepos for Microservices series. Read Part 1 about considerations for and against monorepos. In Part 3 we look at implementing a monorepo pipeline in Jenkins. Okay, so we know we want to go down the monorepo path (see Part 1). How do we structure…

This is Part 1 of a three-part series on monorepos. Next story — Source code structure. In Part 3 we’ll implement a monorepo pipeline in Jenkins. A while back I was tech leading a fairly sizeable project with over 20 engineers at its peak, across mobile, backend, infrastructure, and machine…

Simple steps for getting Kubeflow off the ground on your Mac (hint: it’s not ‘helm install…’) MicroK8s MicroK8s is a fully-compliant mini Kubernetes implementation. Thanks to its tiny footprint, it is perfectly suited for local installation. We’ll install it with brew: ➜ brew install ubuntu/microk8s/microk8s Once it’s installed on your machine…