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Should I Recommend My Daughter Becomes a Developer?

Posted on 17th March 2026 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on Should I Recommend My Daughter Becomes a Developer?

My daughter wants to be a developer. I’m not sure I can bring myself to tell her that is a safe long-term plan, but there are things she can think about. Read more »

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Answer Honestly: Are you Ersatz Cloud Native?

Posted on 13th July 2021 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on Answer Honestly: Are you Ersatz Cloud Native?

As we approach the middle of the year, I’ve been in the full-on strategic planning mode the last couple of weeks and cloud native is a major focus [..]

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Downtime sucks! Designing Highly Available Applications on a Budget

Posted on 29th March 2017 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on Downtime sucks! Designing Highly Available Applications on a Budget

Downtime sucks. I write this whilst sitting in an airport lounge, having been disembarked from my plane due to a technical fault. I don’t really begrudge the airline [..]

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Scale-Out Doesn’t Just Mean Applications

Posted on 20th March 2017 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on Scale-Out Doesn’t Just Mean Applications

A couple of months ago I wrote a post entitled Scale-Out. Distributed. Whatever the Name, it’s the Future of Computing. Taking the concept a step further, I recently started thinking [..]

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