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9 years of AsyncAPI (and why I'm stepping down next year)

9 years of AsyncAPI. Why static docs are a waste, the reality of open-source maintenance, and why I'm stepping down next year.

Why I'm joining Hookdeck

Some big personal news: I'm joining Hookdeck to lead Outpost. Here's why I'm convinced it's the missing piece of the event-driven puzzle.

Chernobyl wasn't a technical failure

It was a catastrophic failure of psychological safety. Here's the story.

From burnout to a 4-hour workday

My 17-month journey from chasing approval to living by my own values. Here's the honest story.

Building our own space

A few weeks ago, I asked if you felt the same friction I did. The response was incredible. Here's what I've decided to do about it.

Thinking about what's next

A new chapter in my life...

EDA in the Wild: Patterns from 20+ Real-World Deployments

Talking to many EDA practitioners in the real-world revealed that most are struggling with the same things...

Workshop with David Boyne (EventCatalog) and some personal insights

Is Your Center of Excellence a Trojan Horse for Social Debt?

Everywhere I look, people are trying to fix culture problems with tools...

The biggest problem with Event-Driven Architecture

No matter who I interview, they all tell me the same...

My Kafka integration platform was shutdown because it was too good

I built an internal integrations platform based on Kafka. It was so good they shut it down :D Not kidding!

Kafka, AMQP, MQTT over HTTP/3? My thought process this week.

I couldn't resist. This week I started exploring what would it take to have message brokers talk over HTTP/3. What happened next would shock you :P

Psychology and EDA? Read about my findings this week.

This week I've learned a lot about the role psychology plays when building the organization structures needed to support Event-Driven Architectures.