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Continue reading →: Software Faults and Failures ⚠️🔥As Martin Kleppman outlines in his book of “Designing Data Intensive Applications” he highlights clearly the difference between software faults and failures, and it’s importance of why we need to understand this. Here are my notes from his insights: ⚠️ Software Fault A component of a system deviating from it’s…
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Continue reading →: 5 Years of Cold Showers! Here’s What Happened.This post will detail my experience of integrating cold showers into my life over 5 years (and counting). To emphasise, this has been one of the best habits I have ever incorporated, now I want to share this with you. ⚠️ Disclaimer, I do not recommend undertaking cold water exposure,…
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Continue reading →: Drinking Green Smoothies 4 Years LaterWhy I started? My smoothies schedule purpose, is to provide myself with more energy at work, and to aid with my fitness regime. Just like others out there, I also have a desire to perform mentally and physically in an optimal manner; green smoothies are apart of my ritual to…
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Continue reading →: Part 2: Top 4 Considerations Designing Data-Intensive ApplicationsContinuing on this series from ‘Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems’ by Martin Kleppman, I will be continuing this journey with 4 more considerations, these will be focusing on database technique optimisation with indexes, asynchronous replica applications, horizontal vs vertical scaling and finally batch…
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Continue reading →: Part 1: Top 5 Considerations Designing Data-Intensive Applications‘Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems’ – Martin Kleppman, details some of the key points initially into what considerations that can be taken when designing data-intensive applications. This post will be in multiple parts on some of the top considerations to make as of…
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Continue reading →: Extreme Ownership & The Dichotomy of Leadership – reviewA dual book review. Diving deep into the Navy Seals way of leadership, by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin.
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Continue reading →: The Wim Hof Method – reviewThe ice man who defied science, and who achieved multiple world records, whilst bringing the Wim Hof method to the world.
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