Stay ConnectedAPI is a podcast hosted by Aiden and Peter on Integration technologies. Together they will explore the world of computer integration from management practices, coding, methods of working and the challenges facing enterprise integration systems.
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This series focuses on how the IT Landscape (with a focus on the cloud) has been changing over the last 5 - 10 years, with new methods of working like agile and frameworks based around it, growing automation, cloud topologies and the psyche as we transform legacy systems.
In this episode we explore how DevOps has changed the way we work, how it has become ubiquitous, the benefit it brings, and why managers cannot expect full stack developers to use Automation and DevOps as a silver bullet for learning the whole stack.
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This series focuses on how the IT Landscape (with a focus on the cloud) has been changing over the last 5 - 10 years, with new methods of working like agile and frameworks based around it, growing automation, cloud topologies and the psyche as we transform legacy systems.
In this episode we explore how Documentation has changed answering questions like - do we need documentation, what about self documenting code, what is the appropriate level and does documentation slow us down?
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This series focuses on how the IT Landscape (with a focus on the cloud) has been changing over the last 5 - 10 years, with new methods of working like agile and frameworks based around it, growing automation, cloud topologies and the psyche as we transform legacy systems.
In this episode we explore how administration has changed as we modernise. We explore what administration means, differences between operations and administration, Automation, the growth of admin REST APIs and our administration nirvana.
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This series focuses on how the IT Landscape (with a focus on the cloud) has been changing over the last 5 - 10 years, with new methods of working like agile and frameworks based around it, growing automation, cloud topologies and the psyche as we transform legacy systems.
In this episode we explore how development practices have changed, including cloud native deployment, security first principles, containerisation, Dev(SEC)Ops, Lightweight Deployments and Elastic Scaling
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This series focuses on how the IT Landscape (with a focus on the cloud) has been changing over the last 5 - 10 years, with new methods of working like agile and frameworks based around it, growing automation, cloud topologies and the psyche as we transform legacy systems.
In this episode we explore how route to live environments have changed as we modernise including standardisation, ephemeral deployments, route to live and the development straight to production.
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In this episode we explore what leads to a project stagnating, the characteristics of a stagnating project and how to resolve issues as they arise,
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In this episode we discuss mentors, mentoring and community based learning. Styles of learning and learning methods including reading, writing, watching etc. The approach we take to learning and how listeners might learn in the future
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In this episode we looked at teaching and mentoring, understanding learning styles, using an encouragement and task oriented learning path. How playback can be useful for assessing your own teaching and your mentees learning.
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In this episode we discuss how to motivate a team, how diversity of personalities helps the team, how to motivate others and how to motivate ourselves.
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In this episode we talk about our technical New Year's Resolutions, how we make them, how they relate to work and give an idea of some of the goals we are setting ourselves this year.
Do you have any resolutions? Get in touch on LinkedIn and Twitter, let us know what yours are and how you plan to achieve them
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in this episode, we discuss working in a team and what makes good teams and team members. We look at the difference between tech leads and project managers and how each role is essential to the team. We look at goals of a team and how to work to the goals and how personalities can help shape a team.
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In this episode we explore design documentation in IT projects; High level designs (HLD), low level designs (LLD), solution design, application designs and how they all fit together.
We also discuss what goes into each design type, why its important to write design documentation and why people might not like writing design documents
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In this episode we explore what a site reliability engineer does, what site reliability engineering is and how it differs from the traditional operations role
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In this episode we explore how Chaos Engineering is implemented in systems, the issues that might arise and the benefits this approach has to culture, reliability and ease-of-mind when it comes to managing and supporting systems.
We also looked at the cost to risk benefit and whether performing chaos in production is the right thing to do on balance.
Chaos Engineering Blog by Aiden: https://aidensgallyvanting.blogspot.com/2019/10/bringing-chaos-monkey-to-heel.html
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In this episode we explore Functions as a Service (FaaS) and how they are the abstraction of all abstraction for code deployments. We discuss the benefits, considerations and how they make for 'The Good Life'
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In this episode we explore what make an application 'cloud native' and how cloud native has become a modern approach to application architecture, design and development.
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In this episode we look at The Cloud - the mystical IT concept - what it is, it's benefits and the different types of Cloud available from the Public, to the Private and the Hybrid.
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In this episode we talk about the concept of a personal projects - projects we work on outside of work.
In this episode we ask:
What personal projects have we done? Is it just work in another name? Is it the same as a side hustle? Should we feel guilty about doing them?
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In this episode we untangle governance definitions looking at standardisation, Patterns, Blueprints, Templates, Standards and Reference Architecture. What do we mean when we talk about them as we standardise our understanding of these terms.
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In this episode we look at file transfer as an integration pattern, how it works, how it evolved and why File Transfer is different from messaging and when you might use each.
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In this episode we look at shared databases as an integration pattern, how it works and how availability affects the replication options. With a brief look at sharing, replication and failure metrics.
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In this episode we look at remote procedure calls as an integration pattern, sometimes known as remote method invocation, we explore how it works and the evolution over time including SOA, Services, APIs and Microservices.
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In this episode we look at messaging as an integration pattern, how it works, how it evolved and the messaging types; message queueing, publish/subscribe and event stream processing.
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In this episode we introduce the integration patterns series looking at why we do integration, the problems that integration solves and real life integration solutions people use everyday.
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In this episode, we look at the differences between working in the office and working from home, exploring how you can get the best from working from home from our real life experiences.
Further reading:
Aiden's Blog: https://aidensgallyvanting.blogspot.com/2020/03/working-from-home-aidens-top-10-tips.html
Peter's Blog: https://pcfr.uk/2020/06/01/working-from-home.html
GitLab: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/
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In this episode we discuss the book "The Phoenix Project" by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford. What we took from the book and how we plan to apply it to our day to day lives.
The Phoenix Project - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business-ebook/dp/B00AZRBLHO
Daily WTF - https://thedailywtf.com
The Register - https://www.theregister.co.uk
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In this episode we look at what quality gates are, how they can be used to ensure quality and the methods for implementing them within an enterprise.
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In this episode we look at containers, what they are, how they work and the benefits/limitations of using containers over traditional deployment methods. We discuss what has driven the container discussion in the integration space and how they might look in the future
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In this episode we look at what Test Driven Development (TDD) is, why it is important to enterprise and the process involved to write the tests. We look at whether test first principle has benefits, potential limitations and its usage in the enterprise integration landscape.
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In this episode we look at how enterprise use 'Agile' methodologies when completing integration projects. We touch briefly on waterfall methodology and explore Agile practices and how they can go wrong
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In this episode we look at how to write 'clean code', what principles we can use to guide the way we write code to make it easy to write, read, manage and maintain
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In this episode we look at CICD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment/Development) why it matters, how enterprise can use CICD to improve how applications and integrations are created, maintained and managed.
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