In this site I've been documenting the patterns and practices that have worked in the field on large-scale mission critical systems.

The result has been more than 600 blog posts, articles, podcasts, and webcasts.

You'll also be able to find presentations I've given at the largest international developer conferences.

Building distributed systems is hard

and getting even harder. The flood is upon us - more users, more data, more integration. Scalability and high availability are needed by almost every system these days but how is complexity kept in check?

As simple as possible, but no simpler

Focusing this lens of simplicity on enterprise systems development has uncovered the balance between decades of distributed computing theory and today's cutting edge: Integrated Simplicity.