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Author Archives: Ben
Determining your AWS IP address range for a dynamic IP
To work with your AWS RDS PostgreSQL instance, you will need to provide your IP address or range. If you’ve got a dynamic IP address, this is the process to follow: 1. Determine your current IP: http://www.whatsmyip.org/ 2. Look up the IP address range … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud
Tagged AWS, CIDR, Dynamic IP, EC2, PostgreSQL, RDS
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The next time I implement a time-sheeting system
I will not punish my consultants for being billable on client site by requiring them to log into a VPN, use IE6, use ActiveX downloads, or place other cruel and unusual barriers to them billing time. I will not make … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Project Management
Tagged consulting, time-sheeting, timesheeting
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You are not doing Scrum
Because your stand-up is a 45 minute conference call to India. Because you still have to estimate total effort and duration. Because the customer does not attend reviews or planning meetings. Because you are not showing working software at the … Continue reading
Decision Table Rules Part 1 – The Exclusivity Problem
Summary How the use of decision tables for modelling business rules gives rise to questions about whether rules are mutually exclusive. Background We have recently been using a form of decision table to classify a population of messages. We have … Continue reading
ISDA FpML Training Course – Notes
A member of the team attended one of ISDA’s London training session on FpML (the basic FpML Training Course, 26-Nov-2013). The good? + Rather natty FpML 5 User Guide + Authoritative talk on interest rate derivatives from Harry McAllister … Continue reading
Posted in Derivatives Industry, FpML, ISDA, Messaging Standards, Trade Organisations
Tagged fpml, isda
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The Tyrant System
It’s time to name something in the enterprise integration landscape: the tyrant system. The tyrant system is where your project dreams go to die. The tyrant system does not answer to anyone. The tyrant system has releases once in a … Continue reading
Posted in Enterprise Integration, Project Management, Vendors
Tagged change management, Enterprise Integration
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10 Questions To Ask About An API
The presence of an API in the systems we were buying or building used to be a nice feature to have. It would be appreciated by those trying to write management reports, but it would not be foremost in the … Continue reading
Posted in API, Architecture, Enterprise Integration
Tagged API, Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Integration Patterns
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Ten Things You’ll Do On Every Messaging Project – Intro
So you’ve read Enterprise Patterns, and understood at least half of it. You’ve either finally got Eclipse working, or downloaded last week’s service pack for Visual Studio. You’re ready to write your first enterprise messaging solution – but what’s it … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Enterprise Integration, Messaging
Tagged Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Integration Patterns, Messaging Systems, Rabbit MQ
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