PinnedAndras GerlitsinITNEXTHow 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…7 min read·Jan 9, 2024--6--6
Andras GerlitsinITNEXTHow “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…23 min read·Mar 6, 2024----
Andras GerlitsWhy 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…5 min read·Oct 26, 2023--1--1
Andras GerlitsinITNEXTHow the microservice vs. monolith debate became meaninglessE Pluribus Unum3 min read·Oct 19, 2023----
Andras GerlitsinITNEXTHow 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…14 min read·Oct 18, 2023--1--1
Andras GerlitsinITNEXTMicroservices 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…9 min read·Aug 11, 2023----
Andras GerlitsinITNEXTIn 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…4 min read·Mar 2, 2023----
Andras GerlitsNoise, 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…3 min read·Nov 29, 2022----
Andras GerlitsinITNEXTLoosely 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…6 min read·Nov 23, 2022--1--1
Andras GerlitsinITNEXTMicroservices: What would the perfect system look like ?In the previous article, we described a framework through which we can reason about distributed, consistent systems by discussing the…6 min read·Apr 7, 2022--1--1