Beginners Guide - Building a retail web shop workshop

The last few months there have been a series of updates to the various open source decision management technologies.

These new versions require updates to workshop content ensuring you have material that helps with getting hands-on with the latest technology.

Today we present the updated beginners guide workshop that teaches the use of decision management tooling through a project where you're building your own online retail web shop.

Integrating with SaaS Applications - Example CRM Connector Integration

Part 4 - Example CRM connector integration

The previous article in this series looked at a SaaS CRM integration example.

The foundation for this logical diagram was researching a use case where customers were successful with a portfolio solution.

It's a starting point for the generic architecture that rises from several customer solution that were researched.

Having completed the outline of the architectural details and the resulting logical diagram elements, it's now time to take a look as specific examples.

In this article we'll go a little deeper than the previous example integration with a SaaS customer relationship management (CRM) applications, exposing how a connector can be tailored to your specific integration needs.

Voxxed Days Milan 2020 - 5 Questions Everyone Ignores with Microservices (accepted)

Previously posted that I've pushed a few talks to the Voxxed Days Milan 2020 and this last week I got the first accept back.

Voxxed Days Milan 2020 shall be hosted on a single day, May 16th 2020 in Milan, Italy. All talks are going to be recorded and published online. You can enjoy previous’ year edition of Voxxed Days Milan 2019 recordings here. Even those not at Voxxed Days Milan can watch them, but the real fun was being there.

I'm really looking forward to visiting this wonderful city full of history and vibrant life, but there is one thing that might be throwing a bit of a wrench in the works.

Beginners Guide - Expanding your DevOps toolbox workshop

The last few months there have been a series of updates to the various open source process automation technologies shared with you over the years in beginners guide workshops.

These updates require updates to workshop content ensuring you have material that helps with getting hands-on with the latest technology versions.

Recently, I shared updates to the human resources employee rewards workshop, where you can get started with the beginners guide to learning about process automation.

This article continues with another workshop update, one that's focused on sharing new tooling with DevOps communities.

Integrating with SaaS Applications - Example CRM Integration

Part 3 - Example CRM integration

The previous article in this series looked at common architectural elements for integrating with SaaS applications.

The foundation for this logical diagram was researching a use case where customers were successful with a portfolio solution.

It's a starting point for the generic architecture that rises from several customer solution that were researched.

Having completed the outline of the architectural details and the resulting logical diagram elements, it's now time to take a look as specific examples.

In this article you'll walk through a specific example where organizations are looking at integrating with external customer relationship management (CRM) applications. This is done to leverage pushing and pulling information from their organization to and from the CRM application.

Beginners Guide - HR Employee Rewards Process Automation Workshop

The last few months there have been a series of updates to the various open source process automation technologies shared with you over the years in beginners guide workshops.

These updates require updates to workshop content ensuring you have material that helps with getting hands-on with the latest technology versions.

A first step is to share updates to the beginners guide workshop that teaches the use of process automation tooling to build a human resources employee rewards process.

Integrating with SaaS Applications - Common Architectural Elements

Part 2 - Common architectural elements

The introduction to integrating with SaaS applications laid out groundwork for a deeper exploration of it's logical diagram.

In this article we continue with a look at the common architectural elements. A description is provided to guide you with aligning what we've presented here with the landscape your organization works with every day.

These details should help you understand both what the elements contain and how they might align and how their functionalities are grouped.

Let's look at the foundation of our integrate with SaaS applications architecture, the logical diagram with its architectural elements.

Codemotion 2020 - Open Key to Your Career

UPDATE 04 March 2020: 
The Codemotion organization have decided to move this event to June 11-12, so I'm all in again. See you in Rome in June!

UPDATE 02 March 2020: 
With regret in my heart I've had to pull out of this conference. The health concerns for this area have create travel policy changes and concerns to the point of me canceling my attendance. I'll be resubmitting this talk again in the future and hope to make it up to the Codemotion Rome organization.

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 It's been two years since I last presented at Codemotion Rome,  so it's nice to be invited back this year to get reacquainted with old friends in Italy.

Back in October 2019 three talks were submitted covering topics:

• DevOps Heros
• 5 questions  everyone ignores with microservices
• Open key to your career.

The first acceptance has arrived and  I'll be presenting on how open is key to your career in March 2020.