For the Layman (Ep. 2) - What is the Cloud?
A non-technical person's introduction to cloud computing
The Golden Rule of Platforms
The Golden rule of platforms (™ Steve Yegge) is simple and well known - Eat your own dogfood.
In the context of building technical platforms, it means
Book Review : Thinking in Systems - A Primer
"Think in Systems : A primer" is an excellent introduction to systems thinking for all readers
Layering domains and microservices using API Gateways
We can apply systems thinking and API gateways to rein in the "domain sprawl" in large scale microservice architectures
Independence, autonomy, and too many small teams
"The two pizza team" paradigm has become really popular in the context of organizing software teams. The idea is to have small, self-