Literature tips
Recently, I presented a session on safety science and incident management at a local meetup. I tend to close such sessions with a number of literature tips (books and websites). […] The post Literature...
View ArticleReflections on the Learning Lab on Critical Thinking in Safety at Lund...
I attended Lund University’s January 2022 Learning Laboratory in Human Factors and System Safety, and it was awesome. It was a very inspiring and well put together week. I’ve been […] The post...
View ArticleCongratulations, you failed!
For those of you that know me, or have seen one of my conference talks, you know that one of my favorite phrases is: “if it hurts, do it more often”. Reading that, you might think I’m some sort of...
View ArticleThe Road to Continuous Deployment (part 4)
The story below details a very interesting & transformational project that I was a part of in 2014 and 2015, at a Dutch company. I’ve told this story before during a number of conference talks...
View ArticleThe Road to Continuous Deployment (part 3)
The story below details a very interesting & transformational project that I was a part of in 2014 and 2015, at a Dutch company. I’ve told this story before during a number of conference talks...
View ArticleThe Road to Continuous Deployment (part 2)
The story below details a very interesting & transformational project that I was a part of in 2014 and 2015, at a Dutch company. I’ve told this story before during a number of conference talks...
View ArticleThe Road to Continuous Deployment (part 1)
The story below details a very interesting & transformational project that I was a part of in 2014 and 2015, at a Dutch company. I’ve told this story before during a number of conference talks...
View ArticlePHP UK Closing Keynote (video)
Last month the good folks at the PHP UK Conference asked me to host the closing keynote. So, on Friday February the 22nd, I took the audience on a journey through my experiences with and views on...
View ArticleAt year’s end – happy holidays!
It’s a wrap! And what a year it was. 13 conferences and 5 meetups in 9 countries – and my first overseas conference in Montreal, Canada! Many thanks to the organizers and everyone that attended these...
View ArticleForget me, please? Event sourcing and the GDPR (JAX London 2018)
Last week, at this year’s JAX London conference, I gave a talk about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the very interesting and specific implications for applications that use event...
View ArticleEvent Sourcing & The GDPR – Erasing your data footprint
Recently, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect. You’ve probably heard all about it (or at least seen the absurd amount of ‘update privacy policy’ emails in your inbox). In...
View ArticleThe Road to Continuous Deployment (All Day DevOps 2016 Recap)
In 2016 and 2017, I gave a series of talks titled “The Road to Continuous Deployment: a Case Study”, detailing some of the work I did in 2015 together with the team at De Persgroep Employment...
View ArticleSoon the GDPR will take effect! Are you ready?
As of May 25th, 2018, the European privacy regulation General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will take effect. This regulation concerns the ‘protection of natural persons with regard to the...
View ArticleBinnenkort treedt de AVG (GDPR) in werking!
Vanaf 25 mei 2018 is de Europese privacyverordening Algemene Verordening Gegevensbescherming (AVG, ook bekend als General Data Protection Regulation of GDPR) van toepassing. Deze verordening gaat over...
View ArticleLeadership books (English and Dutch)
Earlier, I wrote a post about literature (books, articles, etc.) on Continuous Delivery and DevOps. As I’m currently developing a new talk on Effective Leadership (in the context of Agile/DevOps...
View ArticleA typical CI/CD pipeline explained
Recently, I was asked on Twitter if I could give some pointers for reading material on (production) CI/CD pipelines – what they look like, and how they work. I decided to shed some light on this by...
View ArticleRebuilding projections in Axon Framework 3
CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) allows you to have separate models for reading and writing. Combining that pattern with Event Sourcing leads to a powerful capability: updating query...
View ArticleCQRS & Event Sourcing article published in PHP Architect
This month an article I wrote for PHP Architect, called “CQRS & Event Sourcing in the Wild”, was published in the December 2017 “Talking Code” issue. The article deals with some of the challenges...
View ArticleEvent sourcing and the GDPR: a follow-up
My article about the implications of the GDPR for event-sourced applications that I published last week generated a sizable number of responses, suggestions and comments (most of them on Twitter). All...
View Article2017 Conference Season – It’s a wrap!
As my flight touched down at Schiphol Airport early this morning, I realized that that landing marks the closing of my 2017 conference season. And what an awesome season it has been! I’ve been a part...
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