Hello!

I have been operating and building software since early 2008.

This is a collection of small articles regarding software engineering I have learnt and experienced along the way.

Disclaimer: These are my own opinions and do not reflect opinions of the employer where I am presently employed.

Posts

AWS Lambda Latency Metrics for Java Runtime

Latency Metrics for a couple of Java Runtime based AWS Lambdas

Java / JDK Release History

List of Java versions and the features released in the corresponding versions

Custom Java Runtime for AWS Lambda

Build a slimmed and enhanced JRE and use it as a custom runtime for AWS Lambda, using gradle and docker

When Not to Use Kubernetes

Some thoughts after having used Kubernetes in production.

Thoughts on Setting up Software Engineering Teams for Success

Opinionated article on how to setup software engineering teams for success.

My experience with Terraform and Kubernetes

A war story of how I went from knowing nothing about Terraform and Kubernetes to successfully completing a migration off from Cloudformation and EC2 into Terraform and EKS.

My Experience with Scala

My experience after having learnt and used Scala for six months.

Reactive Microservice Frameworks for JVM - 2021

With Java 9 came an implementation of Reactive Streams right within the JDK. I wanted to take stock and begin a listing of the frameworks that are available today that leverage reactive principles and help build reactive microservices.

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