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…3 min read·Jan 29, 2024----
Dishan MetihakwalaThe Subtle Art of Doing “Just Enough”The best architects always create the simplest, most elegant, “just enough” architectures.4 min read·Aug 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…4 min read·May 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…5 min read·Jan 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…6 min read·Aug 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…5 min read·Dec 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…·6 min read·May 12, 2020----
