Authors

I'm a Developer, DevOps and SRE enthusiast with over 15 years of experience in the Software Industry. My background was originally .Net Web Development, but evolved into Full Stack Apps including Database development, Flutter and Serverless APIs. Over the years, I've also worked with a wide variety of cloud and on-premise infrastructure and across diverse industries including Finance, Retail, Media and SaaS.

Due to working on short-term projects with no dedicated infrastructure resources, I was an early adopter of Azure and AWS, making all the mistakes along the way.

I've seen first-hand the migration from Physical Servers to VMs, Cloud PaaS and now Cloud Native, Containers, Kubernetes and Serverless.

My interest lies in any topic or tool that allows us to make better technical decisions. These decisions can often be intricate and result in compromises between maintainability, cost and technical maturity. Over time I've become less enthusiastic about proprietary solutions and more interested in open standards.

Having worked in small teams and companies, I'm also interested in any topic around monitoring and optimising cloud costs. After resisting the topic of AI for a time, I'm now exploring its potential for workflow automation, code generation and as a tool for learning and research. I've also been looking at Data Platforms such as Microsoft Fabric as a way to make data more accessible and useful across organisations, and as an alternative infrastructure for hosting data and analytics workloads.