Michael Hudson

I’ve been playing around with Cloudflare workers recently, which is a serverless compute platform with a number of handy capabilities and a pretty decent free tier.

One of the things you can do with workers is to have them execute on a schedule defined by a cron expression. Unfortunately, if...

About a year ago I started on a bit of a journey…

To set the scene, I’d been on a new team for a few months, and was still coming to grips with everything. The backend services that the team own are written in Scala, with a lot of functional...

When I first started becoming interested in Elixir one of the things that drew me to the language was how much attention Phoenix was getting. Articles such as hitting 2 million web sockets in Phoenix impressed me greatly, and really spurred on a building curiosity for distributed systems...

Spending time learning about and honing your craft is undeniably a good thing. You can pick up new skills, become more proficient in the skills you already have, and find new ways of solving problems you face in your day to day life. However, despite those upsides, one downside is...

Elixir is a language I’ve been really wanting to toy with for a while. I’ve only done object oriented software development professionally, though in my readings of functional development some of the tenants have appealed to me. One thing that I’ve introduced in to my working life is a...

I’ve recently deployed the latest version...

In the previous post we covered ways in which I had been playing with Docker, ways in which I thought it could be useful, and we also quickly touched on the RESTful API.

So as I mentioned previously, one of the biggest problems I have found with using...

Oh boy, has it been a while since I’ve written anything. Well, I suppose now is a better time than any to break radio silence.

Over the last 12+ months I’ve played with Docker to varying degrees. Docker scratches something of an itch for me. It fulfills that burning...

The ability to effectively communicate with others is a skill that has been vital to the success of the human race, and yet this is an skill that “computer nerds” have stereotypically been lacking. The fact that the stereotype exists seems odd to me, because communicating is quite honestly the...

It’s now common practice in software development circles to use issue tracking software to keep track of work being done. There are some full featured offerings available, such as Jira and Asana, as well as more humble tools available such as Trello, or GitHub Issues. However, something that perhaps isn’t...