2020 keeping only the positives

My friend Sam posted this tweet the other day and she did inspire me. I, too, did a lot of memorable things this year. Positive things that I want to focus on. We had enough negative things coming our way from the media so you don’t need my blog post for that. Creating avcud.com In the beginning of the quarantine I wanted to watch the best movie for each year, starting from 1984....

Book review: Release it!

After reading Building Microservices I felt really inspired and then i wanted to learn more about microservices and devops. Specifically about useful patterns that appy in building modern software I’ve learned so many things. Useful patterns like the circuit breaker or the blocked threads antipattern. More than that it helped me build a deeper understanding on troubleshooting errors in production. This is an amazing book that I really recommend as a follow up read after Building Microservices....

Book review: Building microservices

I’ve been working around Microservices for years, but only recently I did start wondering about how everything ties together. My experience at TransferWise helped me to start looking deeper in this world. More specifically, as we move from a monolith to micro services and huge scaling I wanted to know how all the different tools and processes came to be. This book is exactly what I was looking for to get answers about all that....