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Greetings, fellow humans! I'm a proud dad of two awesome kids, and my other love is Cloud! Working for 20+ years in tech has taught me 2 things; always have a backup and yes, it was the network! When I'm not working as CTO, AWS @SoftwareOne, I write blogs and occasionally do a bit of podcasting too...-
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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
TekBytes #2: The Complexity of Public Cloud Architecture
For many organisations, the cloud and cloud-native application refactoring is attractive. This is often due to the belief that it will reduce complexity and risk for them, when [..]
TekBytes: A Blogging Experiment
I don’t know about you, but some of my best and worst ideas come to me when I’m in the shower… it’s quite possible this may be the [..]
Docker – State of the Nation (aka Observations of a Brit)
It may surprise you to learn that Docker is actually quite old now (at least in Startup terms!), having released the first version of their very cool software [..]


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