When Deloitte Platform Engineering teams start on a new client, we bring with us our development processes that help deliver value.

These processes continuously improve as they are applied to many, many engagements and evolve as trends and industry consensus change. This means that we can have all the maturity that...

Introduction

In the previous post of the series, we described the design of an approach to meet common observability requirements of distributed services using Azure Functions. Now, in this post, we are going to cover how this can be implemented and how we can query and analyse the produced tracing logs.

This post...

With the constant evolution of governance, compliance and security, it can be a daunting prospect to balance best practices while promoting lean and efficient delivery approaches.

In this post, we will walk through and demonstrate how using best practices pipeline structures, standardisation, and cross-team...

Introduction

In my previous post, I discussed why it is important to consider traceability and observability practices when we are designing distributed services, particularly when these are executed in the background with no user interaction. I also covered common requirements from an operations team supporting...

Introduction

As developers, we tend to focus our efforts on building and shipping our services and apps to production, but it’s quite common that we forget to think about what happens after go-live. Once we reach production, the solution becomes someone else’s problem. But, even if we could build bug-free services,...

Consider an Integration project in which the timelines of the different layers make it hard to synchronise the development and test phases across different systems. Or an application integrating with an external system that charges for every call made. Wouldn't it be desirable to limit the paid invocations to such...

Recently I've been reading Designing Your Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, who are both lecturers at Standford's famed d.school. The book introduces some of the theories of design thinking and one of the points they revisit a few times is the idea of "start(ing) where you are". I really like how practical and...

When implementing modern application integration solutions, we rely on platforms that abstract many of the challenges inherent to these types of solutions. While the Enterprise Integration Patterns previously covered in this series describe architectural and implementation patterns, the Platform Management patterns...

Once upon a time, I believed that the global multinational organisations who were thriving when I was growing up could not be shaken, that they were too large and well established in their respective domains for new players to enter.

My observations from periods of economic turmoil such as the pandemic, the global...

Show me the Money

You probably have heard of one of the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) platforms: Afterpay, Openpay, ZipPay, Sezzle, Klarna, and lately Paypal?; as the graph above from the Reserve Bank of Australia indicates, credit cards are on the decline and BNPLs are on the rise. I believe the key lies with the fact...