James Eastham articles - 39 total
On Choosing Your Complexity
Software is complex. I don't think that's a controversial statement. Building, testing, observing,...
The Essential Art of Sustainable Software Architecture
Sustainability consists of fulfilling the needs of current generations without compromising the...
Learning Software Architecture? Start With Why!
61,698,933! That's the number of views (at the time of writing) Simon Sinek's TED talk on 'How great...
Essentialism in Software
"The Way of the Essentialist involves doing less, but better, so you can make the highest possible...
Thinking in Patterns; The Importance of Language in Software Architecture
Language is the foundation upon which all communication is built. It's how we share our thoughts,...
Event Modeling By Example
Good design is a fundamental thing for me when it comes to building applications. Yes, there is a...
A redefinition of serverless applications
"Serverless is a way to describe the services, practices, and strategies that enable you to build...
The Importance of Resetting to Zero
I'm sure everybody reading this post has experienced this at some point. You close down your computer...
Front End for the .NET Developer with Blazor Web Assembly
Throughout my entire development career, I've always found web to be the best way of deploying an int...
Refactoring with Clean Architecture - The magic of well-designed software
This week has been a pretty crazy one, with an AWS exam and two weddings in three days (one of which...
How do you monitor the usage of your API endpoints?
EDIT: so I'm now thinking of releasing a cloud app that can be used to monitor API usage. Any interes...
CI/CD in GoLang with Azure Dev Ops and AWS Elastic Beanstalk
This post follows a series of articles I've been writing about designing a distributed system. I'd hi...
How to use Amazon SQS and SNS for inter-service communication - Part 2
In my last article in the Design.Build.Deploy series I configured my first application event handler...
How to use Amazon SQS and SNS for inter-service communication - Part 1
It's been a busy week this week, so further development on the league manager application has been sl...
AWS DynamoDb in GoLang
After spending a lot of the week finalizing the team service with an in-memory data provider and feel...
Clean Architecture in .NET Core
I recently wrote an article around the importance of automating the coding standards around your code...
Project Structure and Test Driven Development in GoLang
I find a well-structured project helps massively as an application grows in scope and complexity. Wh...
How to share Azure Dev Ops Build Pipelines
In my company, we deploy lots of different projects to lots of different clients. This leaves us with...
Designing a Distributed System
If you haven't already, I'd highly recommend checking out part 1 of this series for a bit of backgrou...
The importance of automated coding standards
There are lots of things we all know, as developers, we should do. These same things are things we li...
How do you review and refine your development practices?
I'm reading a fascinating book at the moment called Atomic Habits by James Cleer (very highly recomme...
Design. Build. Deploy. - Series Introduction
One of my developer goals in 2020 is to broaden my horizons. I've always been a .NET developer, which...
Why all our objects be a little more private
When I first started developing software, and for a good period of my development life, I didn't care...
What are your personal development plans for 2019?
I'm a firm believer in constantly improving my skills. I like having a core set of frameworks I use d...
Using Dapr for Microservice Communication
Getting started Last week I wrote an article discussing the different faces of microservic...
What I learned making my first open-source pull request
Last night I took a bold first step as a developer and opened my first official open-source pull requ...
The different faces of microservice communication
Microservices are the 'in' way of developing software at the moment, and have been for quite a while...
Multiple Debug Configs with Multiple Build Tasks – VS Code
I’ve recently overcome one of my biggest bugbears with developing in VS Code. This may be something t...
100 Days of Code Week 1 – Learning React
I’ve recently decided to take the #100DaysOfCode challenge. For those not familiar with the concept,...
Separating front end styling and development
I'm in an interesting position right now that I'm wondering how some of you other front end devs mana...