CTO at Dexels, Senior Architect at Sendrato, and still like to get my hands dirty. Designing interesting architectures, sweat & bleed until they work, and then travel the world to speak at conferences. I’ve spent the last years leading the “replication team” at Dexels to create a replication system to free us from the constraint of only using a SQL database. It wasn’t easy, much of both the theory and the technical realities are still pretty rough. But as they say, you can’t have good war stories without some dark times.