Author: MartijnVeldkamp
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Delivery is like a Relay Run
As promised in my earlier blogs. I am writing a blog a month and I write about Architecture, Governance and Changing the Process or the Implementation and last month was about Technical debt. This month it is about going live successfully. Why? The relay run that the Dutch team lost due to a faulty handover…
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Technical Debt and how to solve it
As promised in my earlier blog. I will try to write more often and will write about Changing the Process or the Implementation and Technical debt. Technical debt? What is that? It is a phrase from the famous software developer, Ward Cunningham. Who besides to being one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, is…
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Simplify Add Lightness Martijn Veldkamp
This famous quote is from Colin Chapman. It was his philosophy, somewhere in 1950 way before ‘minimalism’ became fashionable. Least number of parts By tradition, Lotus uses the least number of parts needed in its products. Yet, they are impeccably engineered, retain their lightness and work dependably. This is a great analogy and one we…
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“Simplify, then add lightness”
“Simplify, then add lightness” This famous quote is from Colin Chapman. It was his philosophy, somewhere in 1950 way before ‘minimalism’ became fashionable.…
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Software as an Onion (SaaO)
Software is like an onion. Your team’s code is one “layer” in this onion. There are layers below you (which you rely on), and layers above you (which rely on…
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myEinstein
This year’s Salesforce Dreamforce conference started rather big with the announcement of my Einstein. The news spread quickly through the massive crowd of 170,000 plus attendees at Dreamforce 2017 and was met with equal levels of enthusiasm and scepticism. The Einstein machine learning platform has been updated with new predictive insights and chatbot capabilities. In…
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Oracle in the Cloud is busy, very busy
Apiary Oracle’s first Cloud move this year was to buy Apiary, an enterprise API specialist. Apiary provides hosted tools to build, test and monitor APIs working with REST protocol. It had three funding rounds totaling 10 million dollars. The firm marries DevOps with workflow for enterprise services and data to be turned into cloud-based applications…
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Human Error -> Root cause AWS S3 outage is found
Human Error -> Root cause AWS S3 outage is found Martijn Veldkamp "Strategic Technology Leader | Customer’s Virtual CTO | Salesforce Expert | Helping Businesses…
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AWS’s S3 outage
# AWS’s S3 outage Tuesday’s Amazon Web Services mega-outage affected not only websites big and small, by disrupting their backend storage, but also a lot of apps and Internet of Things gadgets relying on the technology. The AWS storage offering provides hosting for images for a lot of sites, and also hosts entire websites, and…
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AWS’s S3 outage
AWS’s S3 outage Martijn Veldkamp "Strategic Technology Leader | Customer’s Virtual CTO | Salesforce Expert | Helping Businesses Drive Digital Transformation"…