The Domain Train
For our most recent Innovation Day I figured I’d take the concept of a software release train and… make it real. Every time we deploy new code, I want a train to leave the station and do a little loop...
View ArticleMonitoring & Documenting Microservices @ Domain
Here at Domain we are moving towards a microservice architectural approach. Separating features/domains into small independent services has many benefits. Since we will be building many of these...
View ArticleContinuous Delivery For .Net
You often hear the great stories of companies doing continuous delivery in the Linux world. The tools mentioned are usually the likes of Puppet, mCollective, Salt, etc… But what is a .Net team to do...
View ArticleKinesis – Amazon’s Streaming Data Pipeline
Real-time Big Data or firehose data analysis and gathering has been a hot topic for a while. Amazon’s Kinesis, Google’s BigQuery and coming Event Hubs service from Microsoft all provide similar...
View ArticleThe Sleepytime Protocol
Much has been written of our mighty Robot Army, and its never-ending quest to deliver high-quality, robust, scalable infrastructure to our developers. But even an army needs a rest now and again. So,...
View ArticleRobot Army v2.0
I’ve written before on the topic of the Domain Robot Army – our AWS-based microservice cluster architecture. Well, the Robot Army has just gone v2.0. For those who haven’t read the previous post,...
View ArticleUsing the Cloud to avoid the storm
As you may know from our previous posts, we started using Amazon’s Web Services heavily about nine months ago. It has been a great learning experience for all of us so far, but what is nice is when all...
View ArticleRobot Army v2.5
Read previous posts on the Robot Army here and here. About a year or so back, The tech leadership team at Domain made a determined and bold step towards Continuous Delivery, MicroServices, DevOps and...
View ArticleRunning an FTP server in AWS
FTP is an old legacy protocol that most systems administrators will growl at, and fair enough too. It’s not exactly firewall friendly and it is clear-text (yes, I know about FTPS, but it’s also not...
View ArticleStill waiting to use Lambda in Sydney for CloudFormation Custom Resources?...
There is a fair bit of hype (rightly so) around Lambda and how awesome it is to have the ability to trigger NodeJS functions running on AWS managed infrastructure when certain events happen such as...
View ArticleCatastrophic Failure at Domain – This IS a drill
Reading time: Approximately 10 minutes Why read this? You want guidance or ideas on how to run a production outage simulation. You want guidance for handling a production outage. Maybe it’s your...
View ArticleDomain WinOps at the AWS Summit
At the AWS Sydney Summit I was given the opportunity to talk about our Windows Infrastructure during both the AWS Cloud Warriors event on Monday and for the live broadcast of This is My Architecture...
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