Happy and relieved that the episode with Unmesh Joshi has been restored on YouTube after I filed a counter on the copyright strike. Here is the video in case you haven’t watched it youtu.be/HnyKJq8oR0M

NEW POST Increasingly our industry favors deep specialists. But we've found our most effective colleagues have a broad-based skill that's based on spanning many specialties. Unmesh Joshi , Gitanjali, and I write about explicitly recognizing this martinfowler.com/articles/exper…

NEW § Three more characteristics for Expert Generalists. Unmesh Joshi , Gitanjali and I describe favoring fundamental knowledge, skills blend, and sympathy for related domains martinfowler.com/articles/exper…

NEW § We have two crucial checkpoints for spotting — and then nurturing — expert generalists. Unmesh Joshi, Gitanjali, and I look at hiring and career progression. martinfowler.com/articles/exper…

NEW § To grow Expert Generalists we need to focus attention on fundamentals rather tools. As an example, Unmesh Joshi , Gitanjali, and I describe a workshop we've used to break silos of application development, data engineering, and devops martinfowler.com/articles/exper…

NEW § While we've spent this article praising the Expert Generalist, Unmesh Joshi , Gitanjali, and I simultaneously do not deny the value of specialist knowledge. We also note that EGs work well with LLMs. martinfowler.com/articles/exper…

FINAL § In complex environments, the characteristics of Expert Generalists lead them to be particularly valuable in driving tasks to completion. Unmesh Joshi , Gitanjali, and I thus complete our article by summarizing the value of this skill. martinfowler.com/articles/exper…

Enjoyed this discussion with Premanand Chandrasekaran and Lilly Ryan, pairing with Martin Fowler . The 'Expert Generalist' should be treated as a first-class skill for professionals. We need focused programs to actively nurture and grow it. lnkd.in/db364uqp

"Patterns of Distributed Systems" by Unmesh Joshi, with contributions by Martin Fowler, is a great book. The article martinfowler.com/articles/patte… gives a glimpse into all the patterns covered in the book, linking to each chapter for a detailed reading.

NEW POST I had an interesting email conversation with Unmesh Joshi about how when programming with an LLM he likes to grow a language of abstractions. martinfowler.com/articles/convo…

In my experience, building good abstractions—and using those in your prompts—works far better than chasing perfect prompts. The craft is to grow your system’s language by weaving in names that capture the concepts in your solution’s structure.

Tickloom by Unmesh Joshi is a lightweight, single-threaded tick loop for building and breaking distributed systems in Java—with Jepsen-style history export and consistency checks. (link: 👇)

Debugging distributed system failures is tricky. Deterministic simulation + Jepsen makes it tractable. With TickLoom, build your own algorithms, inject partitions/loss/crashes, and prove properties from histories. github.com/unmeshjoshi/ti… #DistributedSystems #Jepsen #Java

NEW POST Unmesh Joshi finds LLMs to be a useful tool, but explains why their help becomes illusory if they shortcut the essential learning loop of our professional practice. martinfowler.com/articles/llm-l…

Back with another November meetup 🎉 We’re teaming up with Bengaluru Systems (fka Bengaluru Systems Meetup) to host Unmesh Joshi - author of Patterns of Distributed Systems. Expect sharding, replication, partitioning, CAP, leases & OSS design patterns - in an interactive, ask-as-you-go session.

Looking forward to this meetup

A good reminder of Leslie Lamport's definition "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/distribut…

Good to see the book on Amazon India Bestsellers list in the Software Architecture category. lnkd.in/d-G_q7t8

Had so much fun at the meet-up on fundamentals of data managemen at scale with Unmesh Joshi Bengaluru Systems (fka Bengaluru Systems Meetup) last week. Thank you to our volunteer - Gurupratap - for making memorable pics.

I enjoyed all the discussions.. even when I was almost exhausted after a 5 hour workshop. Wonderful group of participants with so many interesting discussions.