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On Magic, Convetions, and Implicit vs Explicit original ↗

2 Apr 2026

2025

Database Column Prefixes original ↗

26 Jan 2025

Explicit vs Implicit code original ↗

19 Jan 2025

Debugging GDI Handle Leaks original ↗

11 Jan 2025

2024

Telemetry and Cancelled Contexts original ↗

26 Dec 2024

Outside In Design original ↗

12 Dec 2024

Print debugging: a tool among other tools original ↗

24 Nov 2024

Too Much Configuration original ↗

31 Oct 2024

Multiple errors in an OTEL Span original ↗

20 Jul 2024

2023

Hot Reload for ServerSide Rendering original ↗

15 Nov 2023

Tracing: structured logging, but better in every way original ↗

19 Sept 2023

Architecture Testing original ↗

23 Jul 2023

Observability Driven CI original ↗

6 Jul 2023

Expand Contract for Databases and Services original ↗

18 May 2023

Feature Flags in a CI Pipeline original ↗

16 Jan 2023

2022

Changelog Driven Versioning original ↗

22 Nov 2022

QA and Continuous Delivery original ↗

10 Nov 2022

Deploy != Release original ↗

2 Nov 2022

Content based change detection with Make original ↗

19 Sept 2022

Embedding ain't easy, but its alright original ↗

14 Sept 2022

The reports of UML's death are greatly exaggerated original ↗

11 Sept 2022

Pulumi Conditional Infrastructure for Speed original ↗

17 Jul 2022

An NGINX and DNS based outage original ↗

23 Apr 2022

2021

The Operator Pattern in Nomad original ↗

22 Nov 2021

How do you tag docker images?original ↗

10 Nov 2021

The Problem with CPUs and Kubernetes original ↗

2 Jun 2021

Adding Observability to Vault original ↗

27 May 2021

Getting NodeJS OpenTelemetry data into NewRelic original ↗

12 Mar 2021

Observability with Infrastructure as Code original ↗

1 Mar 2021

2020

Forking Multi Container Docker Builds original ↗

3 Nov 2020

Isolated Docker Multistage Images original ↗

1 Nov 2020

Better BASHing Through Technology original ↗

28 Aug 2020

Sharing Docker Layers Between Build Agents original ↗

14 May 2020

Service Mesh with Consul Connect (and Nomad)original ↗

4 May 2020

Observability Without Honeycomb original ↗

15 Mar 2020

Nomad Isolated Exec original ↗

29 Feb 2020

2019

Consul DNS Fowarding in Alpine, revisited original ↗

30 Dec 2019

Libvirt Hostname Resolution original ↗

22 Dec 2019

Nomad Good, Kubernetes Bad original ↗

21 Nov 2019

Creating a Vault instance with a TLS Consul Cluster original ↗

6 Oct 2019

Consul DNS Fowarding in Ubuntu, revisited original ↗

24 Sept 2019

Creating a TLS enabled Consul cluster original ↗

14 Sept 2019

Using Vault as a Development CA original ↗

25 Aug 2019

Architecture Decision Records original ↗

29 Jun 2019

Canary Routing with Traefik in Nomad original ↗

23 Jun 2019

Feature Toggles: Reducing Coupling original ↗

11 Jun 2019

Feature Toggles: Branch by Abstraction original ↗

3 Jun 2019

Configuring Consul DNS Forwarding in Alpine Linux original ↗

31 May 2019

Configuring Consul DNS Forwarding in Ubuntu 16.04 original ↗

29 May 2019

Running a Secure RabbitMQ Cluster in Nomad original ↗

6 Apr 2019

Hyper-V, Docker, and Networking Drama original ↗

22 Mar 2019

RabbitMQ clustering with Consul in Nomad original ↗

28 Jan 2019

Testing Immutable Infrastructure original ↗

1 Jan 2019

2018

Code-free tracing with LogStash and Jaeger original ↗

22 Dec 2018

Against SemVer original ↗

16 Dec 2018

Stopping Caring...original ↗

8 Dec 2018

Microservices or Components original ↗

28 Oct 2018

SketchNotes: Finding Your Service Boundaries original ↗

10 Sept 2018

Semantic Configuration Validation: Earlier original ↗

8 Sept 2018

Feature Toggles with Consul original ↗

6 Sept 2018

Validate Your Configuration original ↗

26 Aug 2018

Branching and Red Builds original ↗

10 Aug 2018

Managing AppSettings in Consul original ↗

7 Aug 2018

Locking Vault Down with Policies original ↗

23 Jun 2018

Secure Communication with Vault original ↗

22 Jun 2018

Fixing Docker volume paths on Git Bash on Windows original ↗

18 Jun 2018

Managing Postgres Connection Strings with Vault original ↗

17 Jun 2018

Writing Conference Talks original ↗

15 May 2018

Test Expressiveness original ↗

26 Feb 2018

Task Chaining and the Pipeline Operator original ↗

20 Feb 2018

2017

Tweaking Processes to Remove Errors original ↗

9 Dec 2017

Evolutionary Development original ↗

17 Nov 2017

Strong Configuration Composition original ↗

9 Nov 2017

Alarm Fatigue original ↗

30 Oct 2017

Vagrant in the world of Docker original ↗

22 Oct 2017

Testing RabbitMQ Concurrency in MassTransit original ↗

11 Oct 2017

Composite Decorators with StructureMap original ↗

4 Oct 2017

Integration Testing with Dotnet Core, Docker and RabbitMQ original ↗

2 Oct 2017

Implementing Custom Aspnet Core ModelBinders original ↗

22 Sept 2017

Testing Containers or Test Behaviour, Not Implementation original ↗

17 Sept 2017

Repositories Revisited (and why CQRS is better)original ↗

9 Sept 2017

Serilog LogContext with StructureMap and SimpleInjector original ↗

28 Jul 2017

Getting Things Done original ↗

15 Jul 2017

Terraform, Kinesis Streams, Lambda and IAM problems original ↗

12 Jul 2017

S3 Multi-File upload with Terraform original ↗

23 Apr 2017

Don't write Frameworks, write Libraries original ↗

16 Apr 2017

Using Terraform to setup AWS API-Gateway and Lambda original ↗

17 Mar 2017

Unit Tests & Scratchpads original ↗

21 Jan 2017

Update all Docker images original ↗

16 Jan 2017

MediatR and Magic original ↗

7 Jan 2017

Git Aliases original ↗

6 Jan 2017

2016

Strong Type All The Configurations original ↗

6 Dec 2016

Shouldly: Why would you assert any other way?original ↗

9 Oct 2016

Visualising NuGet Dependencies original ↗

12 Sept 2016

Preventing MicroService Boilerplate original ↗

17 Jul 2016

Database Integrations for MicroServices original ↗

9 Jun 2016

CQS with Mediatr original ↗

19 Mar 2016

RabbitMQ integration tests in XUnit original ↗

18 Mar 2016

2015

Generating AssemblyInfo files with Gulp original ↗

19 Nov 2015

Posting PlainText to Asp WebApi original ↗

21 Sept 2015