I can sleep through the storm.

For workaholics like myself, the prospect of a holiday can feel akin to the impending doom of a critical system outage. The thought of being offline, disconnected from the digital pulse of the business, is enough to trigger anxiety. For years, I made sure that even on vacation, I could…

Hola Microservices. What took us so long?

4-tier architectureWhile it's not something you would want to start with (well, unless you already have all the building blocks) a micro-service oriented architecture comes with more gains than pains. What you are looking at is the current state of TT architecture. Yes, You can probably recognise the pattern -…

Hiring at ToolTime

Idea When I joined ToolTime, heavily influenced by a book called 5 dysfunctions of a team [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Dysfunctions_of_a_Team], and my previous experience I was convinced that the things I will be optimising for is how people in a team work, rather…