Dishan MetihakwalaRunning Apache Ignite Serverless on AWSFor me, one of the highlights of AWS re:Invent 2023 was the announcement of ElastiCache Serverless, even though unsurprisingly that…Jan 29Jan 29
Dishan MetihakwalaThe Subtle Art of Doing “Just Enough”The best architects always create the simplest, most elegant, “just enough” architectures.Aug 11, 2023Aug 11, 2023
Dishan MetihakwalaEnterprise Architecture and the Conundrum of Distributed State ManagementWhile I was doing some research, I came across a US patent applied by Microsoft in 2015 & granted in 2018 titled “State management in…May 2, 2022May 2, 2022
Dishan MetihakwalainThe StartupEnterprise Application Architecture Patterns & the Immutable Laws of ChangeThe book “Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture” was written by Martin Fowler 20 years ago (in 2002), and while I was reading it…Jan 5, 2022Jan 5, 2022
Dishan MetihakwalainSysco LABS Sri LankaLegacy System Modernization PatternsIt is said that as of 2020, 70% of the Fortune 500 companies and 92 of the world’s top 100 banks still use Mainframes (IBM zSeries) for…Aug 19, 2021Aug 19, 2021
Dishan MetihakwalaAWS — Improving System Resilience While Being Commercially Reasonable.Having been adversely affected by the infamous AWS us-east-1 outage of 25th November 2020 (I intentionally refrain from using the phrase…Dec 29, 2020Dec 29, 2020
Dishan MetihakwalainThe StartupApache Ignite as an Inter-Microservice Transactional In-Memory Data storeFor the past few years, hearing the terms “distributed” and “data store” in a single sentence would immediately move my mind to visualize…May 12, 2020May 12, 2020