Blogs

I’ve been investigating using Apache Kafka with Apache Beam and set up a small prototype environment using Docker Compose.

For the last year I’ve been using Wercker to deploy this site each time I make a change (normally a new post) and push it to BitBucket.

Hello world Unit tests Accepting POST Calling a downstream API Testing with a mock Github response Summary A while ago I wrote about using Finagle for an API endpoint.

I recently spent a couple of nights in Berlin.

The benefits of using Docker for your development environments are well known by now.

A partition is a group of your data.

Last weekend I ran the Cambridge Boundary Run half marathon for the first time.

Looking for a change and a challenge, I joined the Broxbourne Rowing Clubs Learn to Row course last October.

In the Michael Connelly books, Detective Harry Bosch often talks about the importance of momentum when working a case.

A few weeks ago my wife and I ran the Takeley 10k.