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CAP Theorem
I spent a fascinating 3-4 days last week at work with Greg Young learning more details around Domain Driven Design (DDD), Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) and Event Sourcing. This is definitely a topic that I will blog about soon. In the meantime, one of the areas touched upon was CAP Theorem which is sometimes […]
The Lean Enterprise
With glowing references from people I have huge respect for, it was only a matter of time before I sat down and read “The Lean Enterprise’. It is a fascinating book which contains plenty of advice, backed up by case studies that really bring it to life. There is a lot of information in the […]
IM Wales – A Tough Day at the Office
After almost 13 hours of swimming, cycling and running, I finally got to hear those immortal words “Matt Lewis … you are an Ironman”. Now where to start: It had been a strange few weeks leading up to the race. With a house move, a change of job and a heavily pregnant wife, the thought […]
Countdown to Ironman Wales
It’s now 5 weeks to the day since the Outlaw, and two weeks until Ironman Wales. The last 5 weeks have been an absolute whirlwind. It’s had everything from changing jobs, having to move house, a heavily pregnant wife and a sick relative with an emergency operation. It’s fair to say it’s gone in a […]
Favourite Pictures from the Outlaw
The following are some of the official race pictures from The Outlaw:
Goodbye Consultancy, Hello Civil Service
I joined PwC Consulting on 24th October 1999 after finishing a Masters degree at University. In 2002, PwC span off its consulting arm to separate it from the audit side of the business. A new company called ‘Monday’ was created, business cards printed and pencils sharpened. In the end, only days after this rebranding, ‘Monday’ […]
I am an Outlaw!!
I am sat here still buzzing with a smile on my face, knowing I am one of the tiny percentage of people who have completed an Ironman distance triathlon, and what a few days it has been. Day Before After struggling with illness the week before, I had a great nights sleep on the Friday […]
The Week From Hell
I knew it was too good to last when I wrote how everything had gone so well. It’s less than 24 hours until the start of the Outlaw Triathlon, and its fair to say it’s been the week from hell. It started on the Saturday night not long after my last blog post. I had […]
Capturing Metrics Challenge part 1 – Dropwizard and Graphite
Performance metrics are key for monitoring and maintaining any system. As part of a prototype exercise, I had been busy writing some custom components to handle this. It had basically involved writing some components on Dropwizard that consume messages on RabbitMQ and write them into a MongoDB collection. There was a lot more complexity involved, […]
One week to go …
It’s late on Saturday evening as I write this. In one weeks time, I will be lying wide awake in a hotel room in Nottingham unable to sleep, with less than 8 hours before the start of the Outlaw long course triathlon. The training has gone really well lately. I have focused on the swim […]