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Author Archives: Ben
Continuous Lifecycle London 2016 – Conference Notes
Who was there Big names: Jez Humble and Dave Farley (authors of Continuous Delivery), and Katherine Daniels (Etsy). Reportedly there were 270 delegates (it certainly felt like it). Vendors In general, thin on the ground – New Relic, HPE, Jet Brains, Automic, … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Cloud, Conferences, Continuous Integration, Docker
Tagged AWS, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Lifecycle London, Dave Farley, Docker, Jez Humble
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Continuous Integration with Docker and Jenkins – Not So Easy
TL;DR: It takes a few minutes to pull a Jenkins container, it takes a few weeks of hard work to get it playing nicely with Docker. Intro We wanted to build a CI pipeline to do automated deployment and testing … Continue reading
Posted in Continuous Integration, Docker, Jenkins
Tagged CI, Continuous Integration, Docker, Jenkins
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Neo4j GraphTalks – Fraud Detection and Risk Management Talk Review
I went to an excellent seminar this morning hosted by Neo4j, the graph database vendor. I used Neo4j a couple of years back to model change requests at a investment bank, and I’ve had a soft spot for its speed … Continue reading
Posted in Databases, Domain Model, Enterprise Wide Data
Tagged fraud detection, graph database, Neo4j, risk management
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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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