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Engineering leader and AI architect with 13+ years of experience building scalable platforms and AI-powered systems. I write about Applied AI, Agentic AI, software architecture, cloud, DevOps, platform engineering, and the practical side of building reliable technology at scale.

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09/08/2021 13 min read

The Saga Pattern: Distributed Transactions Without Two-Phase Commit

The saga pattern explained: long-lived business transactions as local steps with compensating transactions, orchestration vs choreography, the transactional…
01/08/2021 10 min read

Practice: Build a Number Guessing Game in Java

Executive Summary: This beginner project builds a Java number guessing game with Random, a Scanner input loop, replay,…
20/07/2021 10 min read

Maven for Java Projects: From pom.xml to Build Lifecycle

Executive Summary: Maven builds Java projects from a pom.xml that declares coordinates, dependencies, and plugins. This post covers…
16/07/2021 1 min read

Block RESTAPI access to your WordPress site
03/07/2021 10 min read

Practice: Build a CLI Calculator in Java

Executive Summary: This practice project builds a single-file Java CLI calculator with one-shot and interactive modes and switch-expression…
29/06/2021 3 min read

CSS Blend Modes for Modern Web Design

CSS blend modes let you combine layers, images and colors in the browser the way you would in…
07/06/2021 14 min read

Distributed Locks: Mutual Exclusion Across Machines

Distributed locks explained: leases and TTLs as mutual exclusion across machines; the Redis distributed lock and its failover…
30/05/2021 8 min read

Arrays and Strings in Java (with StringBuilder)

Executive Summary: Java arrays are fixed-length containers with helpers in java.util.Arrays, and Strings are immutable. This post covers…
18/05/2021 6 min read

New and Useful Features of HTML5 for Modern Web Development

HTML5 added a long list of features that changed how we build for the web. These new and…
09/05/2021 8 min read

Methods in Java: Parameters, Return Values, and Overloading

Executive Summary: Java methods are defined by a signature and a body, and Java passes everything by value,…
26/04/2021 4 min read

Event Loop & Callback Queue

How the JavaScript event loop and callback queue work, and how to structure your code so the main…
20/04/2021 6 min read

Sensitive Data in Analytics and Marketing Tools: What You Must Not Collect

Keep health, orientation, government IDs, and other high-harm attributes out of pixels, CDPs, and Customer Match: GDPR Article…
05/04/2021 12 min read

Fault-Tolerant Systems: Redundancy, Failover, and Failure Detection

Fault tolerant system design: failure models from crash to byzantine, redundancy and the N+1 arithmetic, the failover playbook,…
21/03/2021 9 min read

Control Flow in Java: if, switch, Loops, and Modern switch Expressions

Executive Summary: Java control flow covers sequence, branching, loops, and switch. This post shows when to use each…