Hi — I’m Alex. I help SaaS teams ship reliable, valuable products faster. As a Portfolio CTO I focus on pragmatic architecture, clear product thinking, and leadership that scales. I partner with CEOs and engineering leaders to remove technical drag—modernise platforms, adopt leading-edge technology safely, and build…
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Increasingly popular in the last couple of years, I think 2020 is going to be the year of “no code”: the movement that say you can write business logic and even entire applications without having the training of a software developer. I empathise with people doing this, and I think some of the “no code” tools are…
Azure has never been the #1 cloud provider - that spot continues to belong to AWS, which is the category leader. However, in most people’s minds, it has been a pretty reasonable #2, and while not necessarily vastly differentiated from AWS there are enough things to write home about. However, even as a user and…
I doubt there has ever been a time when software architecture was seen as a raging success. The “three-tier architecture” of the web has held up extremely well and is an excellent place for many people to start. The “12 Factor App” approach has encouraged developers to adopt practices that make deployment and scaling…