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I’m running a live course on designing serverless architecture with AWS Lambda

AWS, Lambda, Me, Programming, Serverless

Hi everyone, just a quick note to let you know that I’m running a live online course with O’Reilly on designing serverless architectures with AWS Lambda. It’s a 2-day course on September 11-12th with 6 hours in total, and it’s available for free if you have a subscription with SafariBooksOnline. Registration for the course is open till September …

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Year in Review, 2016

Changes, Changes, Changes On a personal front, 2016 has been a year of great highs and lows. I left JUST EAT in March, and started working at Yubl where I had the pleasure of working with an amazing group of people and had lots of fun building things with AWS Lambda and Node.js. We took an …

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Yubl – a sad end to a wonderful journey

AWS, Lambda, Me, Serverless

By now many of you would have heard about the demise of Yubl – the startup where I have been working the last 7 months – in the same week Karhoo also announced its closure. It took all of us by surprise, and happened at a time when we have made real strides in the (r)evolution of our backend architecture. …

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I’m on Functional Geekery!

Functional Programming, Me, Programming

Hello! Just a quick word to say that I spoke to Steven Proctor for an episode of his excellent Functional Geekery podcast where we talked about a host of topics including F#, Erlang and Orleans. You can listen or download the episode here.

Upcoming user group talks in UK

F#, Me, Programming

Just a quick note to say that I’ll be doing a couple of F# talks at user groups around the UK, so if you happen to be in the area at the time do come by and say hello. Feb 3rd, 6:30pm, London BCS (near the Strand) 7 ineffective coding habits many F# programmers …

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Year in Review, 2015

As 2016 dawns upon us, here’s a quick look back at what I got up to in 2015. It’s been a big year on a personal front – after an amazing journey with Gamesys, I started working at JUST EAT at the start of November. In the meantime, I also made a memorable trip to …

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I’m a JUST EATer!

Hey guys, just wanted to drop a quick note to let you know that I have recently joined JUST EAT as a Principle Engineer, since some of you have been asking on LinkedIn and at conferences. For those of you based in UK and Europe you might have heard of us – we are the …

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Upcoming speaking engagements

Hey guys, Just a quick note to say that I’ll be speaking at a number of user groups and conferences in the next few weeks, hope to see you at one of these events! Oct 12 LDN Functionals #2 – F# in the Real World Oct 24 Lambda.World – F# in the Real World …

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Win a ticket to OSCON Amsterdam!

As I mentioned several weeks ago, OSCON is coming to Europe for the first time ever and will be held in Amsterdam on 26th and 27th of October. Some pretty cool tech companies will be there – GitHub, DataStax, Google, ThoughtWorks, PayPal, Heroku and Spotify to name a few! I will be talking about “Modelling …

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My picks from OSCON keynotes

So OSCON came and went, and whilst I haven’t seen the recording for any of the sessions, the keynotes (and a bunch of interviews) are available on YouTube. Unlike most conferences, the OSCON keynotes are really short (average 10-15 mins each) and having watched all the published keynote sessions here are my top picks. Simon Wardley – …

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