Epic Mikey

  • Hazelcast Jet Event Pipelines: A Six-Stage Walkthrough

    Hazelcast Jet’s six-stage pipeline turns an event into a persisted record, view update, and notification in under a millisecond — and the traps to avoid.

  • Event Sourcing on Hazelcast: A Practical Introduction

    Every UPDATE destroys information. Event Sourcing on Hazelcast stores events, not state — fast writes, Jet pipelines, sub-millisecond materialized views.

  • How Baseball Invented Event Sourcing 150 Years Ago

    Event Sourcing isn’t a 2020s pattern — it’s the baseball scorecard, written 150 years ago. Append-only logs, derived state, full audit trail in pencil.

  • Launching a Claude Code Project: Design Before You Build

    How to launch a Claude Code project: nine design documents from Claude’s desktop interface, then a handoff to Claude Code — all before writing any code.

  • Hazelcast Microservices Framework: Event Sourcing Demo

    A demonstration framework for event-sourced microservices on Hazelcast — built years ago, completed recently with Claude Code as the AI pair-programmer.

  • Event-Driven Microservices: Avoiding Distributed Monoliths

    Microservices done wrong become distributed monoliths — same coupling, more ops. Event-driven architecture decouples for real, with eventual-consistency costs.

  • A fresh start

    I’ve repurposed my previous personal, travel-oriented blog to be more developer focused, giving me a place to share technical content now that I’m semi-retired. I still have an interest in programming and technology in general, so I’ll be reporting on topics I find interesting as I pursue projects that excite me. Watch this space for…

  • D23Expo 2015: Walt Disney Animation

    On Friday afternoon (Aug 14), Walt Disney Animation and Pixar presented their upcoming slate of animated features. The presentation was kicked off by Alan Horn, Chairman of Walt Disney Studios.   He showed a history reel of Disney/Pixar animation highlights, and explained how proud he was to be connected to the heritage and legacy of Disney…

  • Expedition Everest Challenge, Part 3: The Hunt

    After completing the 5K, the ‘Challenge’ part of the Expedition Everest Challenge is to complete a scavenger hunt.   (I’m not sure why this is called a scavenger hunt, as there isn’t really any “find something” aspect to this at all — unless you didn’t pay attention on the race to where the clue stations were…

  • Expedition Everest Challenge, Part 2: The Run

    The run portion of the Expedition Everest Challenge is a 5K.  Our course started out by running around the circumference of the Animal Kingdom parking lot.   This portion of the run made up approximately a mile of the 5K course.   Just before we reached the park entrance, we came to the first of 3 obstacles…