Introduction As a software architect dealing with a lot of Microservices based systems, I often encounter the ever-repeating question – “should I use RabbitMQ or Kafka?”. For some reason, many developers view these technologies as interchangeable. While this is true for some cases, there are various underlying differences between these platforms. As a result, different…
Introduction As a software architect dealing with a lot of Microservices based systems, I often encounter the ever-repeating question – “should I use RabbitMQ or Kafka?”. For some reason, many developers view these technologies as interchangeable. While this is true for some cases, there are various underlying differences between these platforms. As a result, different…
Next month is gonna be kind of crazy, or as I like to call it – “Crazy October!”. As much as I like public speaking appearances, this upcoming October is gonna be packed with appearances in three major international conferences. TechBash 2017 First up is TechBash taking place on October 4th-6th at the Pocono Manor…
The area of IoT (Internet of Things) gets all the hype these days. Thousands and even millions of devices sensing the environment and sending continuous information to your system, utilizing Big Data and Machine Learning technologies is no easy task to achieve, but it’s not the future – it’s already here! This upcoming Monday CodeValue is delivering…
I’d like to thank all those who attended last week’s sessions at CodeValue’s open-day “From ALM to DevOps”. I had a good time delivering my session, and I hope you enjoyed it and all other sessions as well. The slide deck from my session is available to view online from SlideShare. [slideshare id=30189324&doc=devopsinthecloud-140119151911-phpapp01&w=790] If you…
How do companies like Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn achieve high levels of execution which allow implementing hundreds and even thousands of lines of code every day, while maintaining a high & consistent level of performance, security and availability? How can the development and operation environments work together to create a meaningful competitive edge for…
Day number two of BUILD has passed on by with some great content. In this post I’ll highlight some issues I encountered today at some of the professional sessions, which were all related to Windows Azure. You should note that all BUILD sessions are available for free on Channel 9. BUILD Keynote – Windows 8…
In response to my previous post on failure analysis, some people argued to me that in their opinion it is the QA’s job to perform a Failure Analysis as part of preparing a test plan, and verify that it does indeed perform as expected by executing the tests. QA? Really?? I ask these people –…
As part of my job as a Senior Software Architect at CodeValue, I architect, design and lead various software projects at different clients. Recently I’ve been asked by one of these clients to perform a failure analysis on a system we have previously built for him in order to make sure that the system behaves…