Rechtin on Ultraquality - Redundancy and Fault Tolerance
The Writings of a Complex Systems Architecture Legend
In his classic (but criminally overlooked) 1991 book "Systems Architecting, Creating and Building Complex Systems," Eberhardt Rechtin discusses technical, managerial and architectural responses to the challenge of building high quality systems. Despite being several decades old, 'modern' techniques like Lean manufacturing . . .
Talk on Continuous Delivery Architecture and Practices
Nondeterminism, xUnit, up-skilling, TDD materials and debates
I did a talk recently at the Sydney Alt.Net Meetup on testing practices for Continuous Delivery.
The talk was an introductory tour of the Continuous Delivery ecosystem, as it relates to technical practices such as TDD (for example, xUnit Test Patterns) and software architecture for testability. You can find the slides on Slideshare.
. . .Free Audio Plugins
Freebie DSP for VST, AAX and Audio Units
My pal Warren Huart has added a neat episode to his Produce Like A Pro video series where he demos a selection of free plugins - check it out!
Another interesting freebie is the PSP PianoVerb, which aims to emulate the sympathetic resonance of piano strings... if you have a lacklustre digital piano sound, give it a whirl! . . .
AMQP on Windows Azure
Cross-platform messaging support
A few useful links on Windows Azure support for AMQP -
Scott Gu - Azure releases support for AMQP (April 2013)
Azure AMQP Developers' Guide
How to use AMQP 1.0 with the Service Bus .NET API
Performance measurements
Why averages lie
Interesting talk from Martin Thompson on performance metrics and how averages lie.
Topics covered -
- Service time and utilisation
- Probability theory and queues
- System time / utilisation levels have disproportionate
- The perils of 80% utilisation and beyond
- Coordinated omission (Gil Tene / Azul . . .
Typography in Ten Minutes
Tips for Typography
Check out some basic rules of typography - Typography in ten minutes, or see [S
Neal Ford Devops and Mircroservices
Architecture for Continuous Delivery
An interesting interview with Neal Ford on Devops and Microservices.
Check out the discussion on testing from 10m30s