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Learning to Love DDD - A Tale of Two Products

January 11, 2023 Learning to Love DDD - A Tale of Two Products is a conference talk I started delivering in 2022. In some respects, it's a love letter to Domain-Driven Design after years of building systems both with and without the practice.

Engineering & Product: Join Forces!

July 28, 2022 Sometimes I meet software engineers who say "Just tell me what to build and let me work out how to build it."

The Software Engineer as a Novelist

July 21, 2022 In conversations with non-technical founders and leaders, I often come across the lament that the engineering department is an opaque box - requirements go in, working (sometimes not working) software comes out (but sometimes doesn't).

UNSW 2022 Co-Op Scholarship Induction Ceremony

March 18, 2022 I was recently flattered to be invited to speak at the UNSW 2022 Co-Op Scholarship Induction Ceremony as an Alumni. What follows is the text of the written speech - as I don't refer to notes when speaking, what came out was slightly different but this hits the key themes.

3 Startup Software Superpowers - Part 1 - Introduction

February 25, 2022 One of the awesome things about working in a startup is that you get to take on an enormously diverse range of tasks. But how do you ensure you're delivering high quality work across all of them?

What I Think About When I Think About Coupling

October 28, 2020 The phrase “loosely coupled” is used alongside “microservices“ so often you'd be forgiven for assuming you get loose coupling for free, just by “doing“ microservices. (Spoiler: you don't.) But what actually is coupling? How loose is loose? Should we also be worried about cohesion? And why do we care?