I’d like to share my story of how we have scaled an idea from a meeting room in Boston all backed by a serverless-first mindset; To a POT (Proof of Technology); To a single country platform; To a regional platform; To a global platform backing a Multi Billion Dollar business…

1. Rise of a Public Cloud playing Green Never has it been so easy to provision workloads in the public cloud. It got me wondering, right now we use serverless and other times we run with dedicated compute that’s been provisioned. Unless you are spending time scaling the later, you will have capacity which isn’t doing anything and…

The opposite of purpose is emptiness. Top business leaders have a dedicated focus that’s relentless. One of the key elements to surviving difficult times is to remain ruthlessly focused on key objectives for your team. I have the privilege of working with a small team of craftsmen; in a massive…

The purpose of this document isn’t a guide to standing up CodeDeploy, AWS have brilliant documents for this. I want to share the lows and highs to accelerate my key learnings from adding Blue/Green transforms to an existing stack. Why bother? The idea here is that your business has zero down time…

Covid19 Vs A Software Quality Pandemic How the worlds governments have reacted to testing of Covid19 reminds me of certain execs in large enterprises. Some sponsor active leadership and look to empower their teams, destroy hierarchical reporting structures in a psychologically safe environment which Foster’s innovation from engineering teams, whilst other utter nonsense about herd immunity…

In 2015 I relocated to the West of Ireland to my wife’s home village in Moycullen, Connemara Galway. I approached my employer (a global digital organisation) six months prior to moving, expecting that I would end up leaving to seek alternative employment. …