In this episode we look at how enterprise use 'Agile' methodologies when completing integration projects. We touch briefly on waterfall methodology and explore Agile practices and how they can go wrong All opinions expressed are our own and do not necessarily express views of the speakers employers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

In this episode we look at file transfer as an integration pattern, how it works, how it evolved and why File Transfer is different from messaging and when you might use each. All opinions expressed are our own and do not necessarily express views of the speakers employers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

In this episode we look at shared databases as an integration pattern, how it works and how availability affects the replication options. With a brief look at sharing, replication and failure metrics. Links from the episode: How sharding works - https://medium.com/@jeeyoungk/how-sharding-works-b4dec46b3f6 MTTR, MTBF, or MTTF? – A Simple Guide To Failure Metrics - https://limblecmms.com/blog/mttr-mtbf-mttf-guide-to-failure-metrics/ A History of Application and Service Integration - https://books.apple.com/gb/book/a-history-of-application-and-service-integration/id1489103440 All opinion ..read more

In this episode we look at messaging as an integration pattern, how it works, how it evolved and the messaging types; message queueing, publish/subscribe and event stream processing. Links from the episode: Comparing Messaging Pub/Sub and Event Streams - https://community.ibm.com/community/user/imwuc/viewdocument/comparing-messaging-pubsub-and-eve?CommunityKey=b382f2ab-42f1-4932-aa8b-8786ca722d55 State of State - https://aidensgallyvanting.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-state-of-state-how-state-fits-into.html?m=0 A History of Application and Service Integration - https://books.apple.com/gb/book/a ..read more

In this episode, we look at the differences between working in the office and working from home, exploring how you can get the best from working from home from our real life experiences. Further reading: Aiden's Blog: https://aidensgallyvanting.blogspot.com/2020/03/working-from-home-aidens-top-10-tips.html Peter's Blog: https://pcfr.uk/2020/06/01/working-from-home.html GitLab: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/ All opinions expressed are our own and do not necessarily express views of the speakers employers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio ..read more

In this episode we look at containers, what they are, how they work and the benefits/limitations of using containers over traditional deployment methods. We discuss what has driven the container discussion in the integration space and how they might look in the future All opinions expressed are our own and do not necessarily express views of the speakers employers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

In this episode we look at how to write 'clean code', what principles we can use to guide the way we write code to make it easy to write, read, manage and maintain All opinions expressed are our own and do not necessarily express views of the speakers employers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

This series focuses on how the IT Landscape (with a focus on the cloud) has been changing over the last 5 - 10 years, with new methods of working like agile and frameworks based around it, growing automation, cloud topologies and the psyche as we transform legacy systems. In this episode we explore how DevOps has changed the way we work, how it has become ubiquitous, the benefit it brings, and why managers cannot expect full stack developers to use Automation and DevOps as a silver bullet for learning the whole stack. All opinions expressed are our own and do not necessarily express views of ..read more

This series focuses on how the IT Landscape (with a focus on the cloud) has been changing over the last 5 - 10 years, with new methods of working like agile and frameworks based around it, growing automation, cloud topologies and the psyche as we transform legacy systems. In this episode we explore how Documentation has changed answering questions like - do we need documentation, what about self documenting code, what is the appropriate level and does documentation slow us down? All opinions expressed are our own and do not necessarily express views of the speakers employers Hosted on Acast ..read more

This series focuses on how the IT Landscape (with a focus on the cloud) has been changing over the last 5 - 10 years, with new methods of working like agile and frameworks based around it, growing automation, cloud topologies and the psyche as we transform legacy systems. In this episode we explore how administration has changed as we modernise. We explore what administration means, differences between operations and administration, Automation, the growth of admin REST APIs and our administration nirvana. All opinions expressed are our own and do not necessarily express views of the speakers ..read more