PinnedPublished inITNEXTHow techies missed what’s wrong with Horizon, how that lead to multiple deaths and what can we…The Horizon scandal is a multi-decade saga that involved a lot of politics, technology, real-life drama and incompetence. It’s an…Jan 96Jan 96
Published inITNEXTHow “Simple” Can Scale Your SQL, Beat CAP, and Fulfill the Promise of MicroservicesA jargon-free explanation of how our prevailing thinking holds us back from achieving limitless, global databases with your existing tools…Mar 6Mar 6
Why is software integration such a mess?Although this article was written from a neutral perspective, I must preface it by saying that our company (omniledger.io) specialises in…Oct 26, 20231Oct 26, 20231
Published inITNEXTHow the microservice vs. monolith debate became meaninglessE Pluribus UnumOct 19, 2023Oct 19, 2023
Published inITNEXTHow to federate independent applications with omniledger.ioMicroservices are notoriously hard to get right. This is due to the problems with sharing data between independent data silos. With…Oct 18, 20231Oct 18, 20231
Published inITNEXTMicroservices can be simple — if we let themIn our previous article, we talked about how our data-platform can help people integrate software. We discussed how the platform has…Aug 11, 2023Aug 11, 2023
Published inITNEXTIn defense of the IT bureaucratSheila has been an IT manager for twenty years. In the last few, when the going was good, she was sold tall tales of zero-to-infinite…Mar 2, 2023Mar 2, 2023
Noise, signal and innovationWe spend our waking hours looking for meaning in noise. Each time we find it, it tells us something about our intents. Some are obvious…Nov 29, 2022Nov 29, 2022
Published inITNEXTLoosely coupled monoliths and where to find themFor the last decade, the tech sector has been on a mission to decrease its dependence on central SQL-monoliths. The mainstay of these…Nov 23, 20221Nov 23, 20221