Fitness Functions for Architecture

Jan. 3, 2018 by

I’ve just finished reading Ford’s, Parson’s, and Kua’s recent book, Building Evolutionary Architectures. Building Evolutionary Architectures is the software architecture guide for the 21st century. The couple hours that I

I’m speaking at SQL Saturday!

Dec. 22, 2017 by

I’m speaking as part of an internationally distinguished group of data experts at SQL Saturday on February 17, 2018 in Wellington. My talk is on migrating SQL Server to AWS

How to group more than once in Azure Stream Analytics

Dec. 15, 2017 by

If you’ve used Azure Stream Analytics, you’ve probably encountered the message “Exactly one temporal window is expected.” While obviously only one temporal window is possible, this error occurs any time

Monitor your business with Elasticsearch

Dec. 8, 2017 by

I presented to the Wellington AWS User Group yesterday on how to monitor the activities being facilitated and automated by software just as professionally as the software itself is monitored.

Register for my Elasticsearch presentation

Nov. 25, 2017 by

I’m speaking to the Wellington AWS User Group on December 7. Too often our software uses state of the art tools to monitor its logs but provides little or no