Being Cellfish

Having worked in Xbox Live I often get questions about its past.

Making simple REST API is easy but once you do more complex things you don't want to stick with the simple rules any more.

If you're working with a distributed system it is likely that you use eventual consistency to make your system scalable and robust but ...

When it comes to auto scaling I tend to see one of two approaches. But neither is actually good.

Anybody who is practicing TDD or BDD knows that it is important to abstract dependencies. Especially external dependencies you have no contr...

Last week I promised another leadership story so this time it will be from the military.

Last week I talked a little about things I saw the leadership team do during the Xbox One launch. But there are two more stories I wanted t...

During the last few months before Xbox One shipped I did some interesting observations.

Since I recently moved away from Microsoft and Washington to join Ericsson in California I recently did a number of interviews. And it was o...

In a lot of older web applications as well as newer RESTful services I've seen it fairly common to have identifiers such as user and ord...