An opinionated guide to building APIs with Akka-Http
Akka-Http is my preferred framework for building APIs, but there are some things I have picked up along the way. For one thing, Akka-Http is very un-opinionated in its approach, there are often lots of...
View ArticleServerless with AWS Lambda & Scala
About a year ago, I started looking at AWS's serverless offering, AWS Lambda. The premise is relatively simple, rather than a full server running that you manage and deploy your docker/web servers to,...
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We need to talk about AI
Ethical and Regulatory questions facing AIRegardless of area of expertise, most of us are probably already aware of the momentum around Artificial Intelligence (AI). Between self driving cars, home...
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Monster dash - Making an android game with my son
At the start of last year, 2017, I set a resolution, of sorts, to build a mobile app with my older boy. He was just getting into playing games on mobile phones and tablets, and lots of them were just...
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JAXLondon 2017: Agile Machine Learning [VIDEO]
Last October a colleague and I gave a talk at the JAXLondon Conference about Machine Learning in an agile, commercial environment (I then also gave the talk again in November in Munich at the W-JAX...
View ArticleGeneric Programming with Scala & Shapeless part 2
Last year I spent some time playing with, and writing about, Scala & Shapeless - walking through the simple example of generating random test data for a case class.Recently, I have played some more...
View ArticleAPI Conf 2018 - Product Management for Engineers
Last week I attended and spoke at the 2018 API Conference in Berlin.Having written about the topic before, my talk was titled: Your API as a Product - Thinking like a Product Manager (really aimed at...
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Machine Learning with AWS & Scala
Recently, in an attempt to starting learning React, I started building an akka-http backend API as a starting point. I quickly got distracted building the backend and ended up integrating with both the...
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Kubernetes & Prometheus: Getting started
I have recently started working on a migration process to move our company deployments over to Kubernetes (from Fleet, if you were interested, which was at the time of dpeloyment a pretty cutting edge...
View ArticleYour API as a Product: Thinking like a Product Manager [VIDEO]
The video for the talk I gave at the 2018 API Conference is now available online.I have talked about a bit before, as well as sharing the slides, but one of my main take-aways is that we are all...
View ArticleRe-thinking the Visitor pattern with Scala, Shapeless & polymorphic functions
In this article I will look at a relatively boilerplate free way to traverse tree structures in Scala, using polymorphic functions along with Shapeless' everything function.Over the course of my...
View ArticleConfiguring Gradle publishing with AWS S3
Using S3 as a remote maven repository can provide a cost effective alternative to some of the hosted solutions available - admittedly you won’t get tooling like Artifactory sitting on top of the...
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How to make your Jekyll website blazing fast!
A few years back I used Jekyll and Github pages to create a one page CV/resume template site, it turned out to be one my most forked Github project and the blog post I wrote up about it one of the more...
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An overview: How to implement Google's Structured Data Schemas
As a result of working in web products (both personal and professional) I have become quite au fait with SEO from a technical point of view, and purely technical things you can do to put you in good...
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