In October of last year, I made the decision to return to Red Hat after leaving in 2010. While the opportunity to lead Red Hat’s emerging technology consulting practice in region was the primary reason for my return, Red Hat’s open culture also played a significant role in …

In this article we take a look at some of the announcements from Docker con 2015 and reflect on what it means for container orchestration in the Enterprise.

Summary: In this article, I provide a brief update on the development of content for the Resources and Design Principles chapters in the "Architecting for the AWS Platform" video series for O'Reilly Media.

During the past week I've been working on the following chapters of the O'Reilly training series:

• Resources …

Summary: In this article, I provide a brief update on development of the Platform chapters of the "Architecting for the AWS Platform" video series for O'Reilly Media.

During the past three weeks I've been working on the following platform related chapters of the O'Reilly training series:

• Platform - Availability
• Platform - Design …

Summary: In this article, I provide a update on development of the "Architecting for the AWS Platform" video series for O'Reilly Media.

During the past few weeks, I've been busy developing and recording content for O'Reilly Media as part of the up and coming series, "Architecting for the AWS Platform …

Summary: In this article we look at why the ability to manage IAM policies as first class objects is important and provide some example code to illustrate resource duplication that may lead to increased and unnecessary risk.

A couple of weeks back, AWS announced Managed Policies for AWS Identity & Access …

Summary: In this article we look at how Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) can be used to orchestrate the cross region deployment of RDS resources.

Recently, I have been investigating highly available (multi-AZ) cross-region configurations of RDS. The RDS API makes the task quite simple. It’s little more than:

master_db …

In this article I introduce a case study I wrote with John Painter of Sourced Group. The case study presents a blueprint for a Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP) for Enterprise organisations and will feature in the book, "DevOps, A Software Architect's Perspective", scheduled for release in the first half of next year.

Summary: In this article we look at how D3.js can be used to create a simple visualisation to illustrate the terrible recent Ebola virus outbreak in western Africa.

In this article we look at how D3.js can be used to create a simple visualisation to illustrate the terrible …

Summary: In this article we consider the potential advantages and challenges of an organisation having access to a unified digital profile for each of their customers. We use an example of booking a vacation online to illustrate how the user experience differs greatly depending on the amount of information available …