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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Event Sourcing & The GDPR – Erasing your data footprint

Recently, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect. You’ve probably heard all about it (or at least seen the absurd amount of ‘update privacy policy’ emails in your inbox). In any case, the GDPR attempts to regulate data protection for EU citizens, and is applicable to any organization that deals with EU citizens.

The GDPR has many implications for any software or organization that processes data. However, if you are considering implementing event sourcing in your application (or have already done so), there are a few provisions in the regulation that have specific implications for event sourced applications.

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