Architecture
Presentations about Architecture
Mature Microservices and How to Operate Them
Restoring Confidence in Microservices: Tracing That's More Than Traces
Cloud Native Data Pipelines With Apache Kafka
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones
Airbnb’s Great Migration: Building Services at Scale
RSocket: Solving Real-World Architectural Challenges
RSocket: Solving Real-World Architectural Challenges
RSocket: Solving Real-World Architectural Challenges
A Guided Journey of Cloud Native Featuring Monzo
A Guided Journey of Cloud Native Featuring Monzo
What We Got Wrong: Lessons from the Birth of Microservices
BBC iPlayer: Architecting for TV
Scaling for the Known Unknown
Cultivating Production Excellence - Taming Complex Distributed Systems
Architectures Open Space
Interviews
What Lies Between: The Challenge of Operationalising Microservices
What is the work you’re doing today?
I build and operate software platforms for monitoring, aggregating, optimizing, and controlling renewable-energy assets, including energy production, battery storage, grid services, and electric-vehicle charging. These platforms leverage microservices and reactive-systems principles. I am most focused on mentoring and growing teams, and supporting these teams in their technical decisions.
Tell us about the projects you've been working on lately.
One of the most interesting things that I work on is the aggregation and control of batteries; taking thousands of batteries, in people's homes, and making them look like one power plant. It involves low-latency, closed-loop control, at scale, over the Internet, and all the problems that come with it. Using Scala, Akka, and Akka Streams for building the microservices in these systems has been a really great fit for the domain and has resulted in extremely robust services.