Author Archives: Clive Tong

Another change of job, and hence another list of books I’ve read in the meantime. Designing Distributed Systems by Brendan Burns This book goes through a number of patterns that you might want to use when designing distributed systems using … Continue reading →

In my current job, the team are working on deploying an application onto Azure using Kubernetes, so it was time to do some reading around the technologies that are being used. Docker is used by the company as the universal … Continue reading →

The Go Programming language by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan I read this as preparation for a new job. It feels like the definitive guide to the Go language. The book is a great learning tool, highlighting practical uses of … Continue reading →

My time at Redgate is coming to an end, so I’ve been reading a fair few books on some of the new technologies that I’ll be using in my new job. More on that later. First some interesting videos and … Continue reading →

It always amazes me how simple ideas can transfer from one domain to another. A while ago I was looking at Azure Durable Functions. In this domain you want to write a function that can call out to another service, … Continue reading →

I read this informative post on CORS at the weekend, and realised that the best way to get to grips with it, is to try some experiments. I hadn’t realised before how easy this would be in C#. It’s easy … Continue reading →

There are three other books that I have recently read without writing up here. React in action by  Mark Tielens Thomas, which was a good introductory book on React. It explains the various concepts and takes you through a number … Continue reading →