Great intro to Event Sourcing from Mario Bittencourt medium.com/ssense-tech/ev… – still waiting/wanting to get my hands on one of these architectures! (via Devops Weekly)

Friendly reminder: - always jitter when using backoff - always jitter periodic work (e.g. crons, timers) It will make your system more resilient. aws.amazon.com/blogs/architec…

TIL rsync allows you to limit how much implied path is sent with --relative – means no more having to create/chdir directories on the target side! (e.g `rsync -aRP /./data/foo/ /mnt/backup/` creates /mnt/backup/foo for you)

Great, candid interview with my old friend Jon Topper talking about his journey to CTO: ctocraft.com/blog/from-zero… (cc CTO Craft)

Powerful words from we're done here - read until the end

Things I didn't realise I needed until now: a variable standing desk with... A. Frickin'. Hammock: upliftdesk.com/uplift-v2-stan… bravo UPLIFT Desk, bravo 👏👏

Loved this CTO Craft interview with the wonderful Aubrey Stearn ctocraft.com/blog/from-zero… - her "The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent" quote is going in the file

If you're working in enterprise and don't know Jon I recommend watching youtu.be/cwbiSCgiZNA reading medium.com/sooner-safer-h… then pre-ordering Sooner Safer Happier 👇

LEGO interface panels are beautiful, iconic, and great for learning interface design basics. I bought 52 of them from BrickLink and had a lot of fun last week analysing the design of them all. Here's what I learned: designedbycave.co.uk/2020/LEGO-Inte…

Feels like a "holy trinity" of Wardley Maps + DDD + Team Topologies is beginning to help quite a few organisations. 🗺️ + 📘 + 📗 = 😇

We're deeply sad to announce that as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, Bletchley Park Trust is about to enter a period of consultation around a restructuring proposal. Around a third of our staff have been placed at risk of redundancy. Read more: bletchleypark.org.uk/news/bletchley…

Great piece by Martin Fowler on collection pipelines. Love the way used to explain the operations you often find in collection pipelines: martinfowler.com/articles/colle…

Very excited to join hx as CTO 🥳We're using maths, tech and smart people to disrupt specialty insurance (where Excel still reigns supreme). Want to know more? bit.ly/36AKlkF - oh, and of course... 📣 I'M HIRING hx.careers 🚀

If the pandemic happened in the 90’s

After discovering that my nephew has named his hamster "OPENUPFBI" (no space, all caps) I'm now questioning every name I've ever given anything

And here's to many more! 🎉

Hugely excited to begin the next chapter of my hx adventure as Field CTO, where I'll be establishing a new function working with our Marketing, Sales and Customer teams to supercharge the next phase of our growth 🚀