This November, I attended Web Summit in Lisbon with a few of my colleagues from our various Infinity Works locations. This is the largest tech event in the world, with over 70,000 attendees and it was an inspiring week with a broad spread of subjects and some thought provoking speakers. Plus it was great to spend some time sharing experiences and ideas with my fellow … Continue reading Web Summit 2019

At Infinity Works, many of us use AWS routinely, but we’re less experienced with Google Cloud Platform. So I decided to find out more and signed up for a one day Google OnBoard event recently. I wasn’t surprised to see a lot of similarity between AWS and GCP. But there were a number of important differences, too — and in many ways GCP looked better. … Continue reading Google Cloud OnBoard

The days of imposing an Enterprise Architecture top down are gone. It doesn’t scale and it doesn’t create good architectures. Now it’s all about building the right culture and community, effecting architectural change through organisational change, and creating generative feedback mechanisms which cause sustainable architectures to grow. Instead of cost reduction we focus on maximising customer value and organisational resilience. Squads Agile cross-functional teams or ‘squads’ are … Continue reading Architecting for Agility

I recently had to revive a git repository by removing some accidental commits of large binary files. Overnight, a fresh clone of the repository grew from a few hundred MB to several GB and this had a particularly nasty effect on our CI system since it stores a fresh clone for every build. In the process, I got a much better understanding of how git works. … Continue reading Rewriting git history