Richard Rodger
Richard Rodger is CTO of nearForm, a leading Node.js specialist. He is a technology entrepreneur who has been involved in the Irish Internet industry since its infancy and wrote the seminal book on Node: Beginning Mobile Application Development in the Cloud.
Richard founded the Internet startup Ricebridge.com in 2003. He subsequently joined the Telecommunication Software and Systems Group (TSSG) and became CTO of one of its successful spin-off companies, FeedHenry Ltd.
More recently, he became CTO and founder of nearForm.com. Richard holds degrees in Computer Science (WIT), and Mathematics and Philosophy (Trinity College Dublin). Richard is author of Mobile Application Development in the Cloud by Wiley.
Talks I've Given
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Microservices from Day One
Featuring Richard Rodger
This is the story of the development of the voxgig.com Software-as-a-Service platform over the first 18 months of development from an MVP to production with actual users.
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Zero-risk Microservices
Featuring Richard Rodger
Or: How to control the risks of continuous deployment for Node.js microservices
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Surviving Microservices
Featuring Richard Rodger
How do you scale to hundreds of Microservices? How do you survive the dangers of poison messages and cascading system failure? How can you keep your system healthy under continuous deployment.
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Surviving Micro-services
Featuring Richard Rodger
With more and more teams using the microservice architecture, and gaining the speed of delivery benefits that it provides, a challenge has emerged in teams that do not have sufficient experience with message-oriented systems. The network is unreliable, has many moving parts, and it’s easy to end...
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Microservice War Stories
Featuring Richard Rodger
Tales from the bleeding edge of the micro-service revolution. We've made all the mistakes, so you don't have to.
Richard Rodger will give a talk about how he and his team implemented microservices at NearForm; the company he co-founded with Cian Ó Maidín with the vision of making Node.js...
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Micro-service War Stories
Featuring Richard Rodger
Tales from the bleeding edge of the micro-service revolution. We've made all the mistakes, so you don't have to.
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A Node.JS Search Engine, Part 2: How Micro-services deliver practical software re-use
Featuring Richard Rodger
This is the second part of a series of meet ups and blog posts explaining the development of a search engine for Node.js modules. You can follow this series to see how Node.js is used in production, and how a micro-service architecture is constructed.
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In the Brain of Richard Rodger:Building a Node.js search engine using the micro-service architecture
Featuring Richard Rodger
Learn how to design and build large-scale production Node.js systems by following along as a Node.js search engine is created step-by-step.
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Monolithic Node.js: How to build large-scale modular Node.js systems by avoiding the monolithic mistakes of the past.
Featuring Richard Rodger
Stop repeating the mistakes of the past! JavaScript lets you do amazing things in very small amounts of code. Node.js lets you write server-side code in tiny mind-size pieces. We call them micro-services.
Stop writing monolithic web apps! Break everything apart. Do one thing and do it well. You...
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