Mike's Blog
Review: Understanding the 8 Fallacies of Distributed Systems
April 12, 2020Understanding the 8 Fallacies of Distributed Systems Overview The author, Victor Chircu , presents the 8 Fallacies of Distributed Systems…
Review: GOTO 2019 • "Good Enough" Architecture • Stefan Tilkov
April 12, 2020Link to YouTube Video Overview Stefan Tilkov presents a number of different microservice architecture anti-patterns and approaches that he…
Review: Intro to ElasticSearch - Pluralsight Courses
April 08, 2020Searching and Analyzing Data with ES: Getting Started Designing Schema for ElasticSearch Overview These two courses by Janani Ravi provide…
Review: Microservice Disaster
April 08, 2020Link to YouTube Video Overview Jimmy Bogard presents a problem that one of his clients ran into when replatforming to a Service Oriented…
GraphQL Exploration
April 05, 2020Following is an internal blog post from 2019 that I wrote up for my team at Target to convince the other engineers that we should adopt…
Don't Optimize Your Code*
June 30, 2019Live look at a blazing fast app *Wait until you notice performance degradation, first We all want our apps to run blazing fast. As a…
WILLW - February 11th, 2019
February 18, 2019WILLW (What I Learned Last Week) will (hopefully) be a weekly post that I write to chronicle what I worked on, what I learned, blog posts I…
Hook(s)! Hook(s)! Hook(s)!
February 10, 2019Unless you’ve been living under a (technology) rock, you are well aware that the React team released the long anticipated Hooks feature last…
My First (Technology) Love
January 23, 2019Image from tweet by Microsoft’s Office account I originally wrote this in March of 2016 when I was between projects. I’m not entirely…
Welcome to My Blog
January 23, 2019Wow. How novel. A developer with a blog. Yea, well, how else can I share my ideas with the world? A 25 tweet twitter thread that gets washed…