Literature tips

Recently, I presented a session on safety science and incident management at a local meetup. I tend to close such sessions with a number of literature tips (books and websites). A small number, to not overwhelm the audience! However, in the post-talk discussion, after being prompted by attendees, I shared (many) more literature tips .

This triggered me to write a short post containing a number of books and websites that have inspired me the past few years. Not just in the field of safety science and incident management, but also a few about leadership and teams.

So without further ado, here’s some “light” reading for you to enjoy!

Safety science and incident management

Leadership and teams

For additional leadership book tips, see Leadership books (English and Dutch).

The Road to Continuous Deployment (part 4)

The story below details a very interesting & transformational project that I was a part of in 2014 and 2015, at a Dutch company. I’ve told this story before during a number of conference talks (slides and videos are available, if you’re interested), and I’ve now finally come around to writing it up as a series of blog posts!

This is part 4 and the final installment of a multipart series on how CD, DevOps, and other principles were used to overhaul an existing software application powering multiple online job boards, during a project at a large company in The Netherlands.

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The Road to Continuous Deployment (part 3)

The story below details a very interesting & transformational project that I was a part of in 2014 and 2015, at a Dutch company. I’ve told this story before during a number of conference talks (slides and videos are available, if you’re interested), and I’ve now finally come around to writing it up as a series of blog posts!

This is part 3 of a multipart series on how CD, DevOps, and other principles were used to overhaul an existing software application powering multiple online job boards, during a project at a large company in The Netherlands.

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The Road to Continuous Deployment (part 2)

The story below details a very interesting & transformational project that I was a part of in 2014 and 2015, at a Dutch company. I’ve told this story before during a number of conference talks (slides and videos are available, if you’re interested), and I’ve now finally come around to writing it up as a series of blog posts!

This is part 2 of a multipart series on how CD, DevOps, and other principles were used to overhaul an existing software application powering multiple online job boards, during a project at a large company in The Netherlands.

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The Road to Continuous Deployment (part 1)

The story below details a very interesting & transformational project that I was a part of in 2014 and 2015, at a Dutch company. I’ve told this story before during a number of conference talks (slides and videos are available, if you’re interested), and I’ve now finally come around to writing it up as a series of blog posts!

This is part 1 of a multipart series on how CD, DevOps, and other principles were used to overhaul an existing software application powering multiple online job boards, during a project at a large Dutch company.

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At year’s end – happy holidays!

Park Servaasbolwerk / Sonnenborgh & Nieuwegracht by Donker Utrecht – visit https://donkerutrecht.nl/

It’s a wrap! And what a year it was. 13 conferences and 5 meetups in 9 countries – and my first overseas conference in Montreal, Canada!

Many thanks to the organizers and everyone that attended these events, listened to me speak, asked questions, gave feedback, chased me around to ask more questions and made me feel welcome. I very much appreciate it. Now it’s time for some well deserved rest, before we roll on to 2019!

I wish you Happy Holidays and a productive & healthy New Year!

[image credit: Donker Utrecht – beautiful photographs of my hometown]

Forget me, please? Event sourcing and the GDPR (JAX London 2018)

Last week, at this year’s JAX London conference, I gave a talk about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the very interesting and specific implications for applications that use event sourcing. The talk was inspired and partly based on two earlier articles that I wrote: Forget me please? Event sourcing and the GDPR and Event sourcing and the GDPR: a follow-up.

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