Matthew Whetton

An engineer at heart, CTO at building a culture of creative problem solving, empowered engineering teams and continuous learning

[Matthew Whetton @codenutz]

The last few years at Oakbrook we’ve been building our core application platform named O6K. Its been a long journey along which we’ve rebuilt our tech stack from the ground-up whilst still delivering value.

Here's a little about how we achieved it:

https://t.co/lbxyz5WygR

[Matthew Whetton @codenutz]

@_getsandbox hey we're (Oakbrook Finance) currently on your highest tier plan but need to increase our requests. One of our team did reach out on Friday, but we've not had a response. Any chance someone could send us a message to pay for an increased quota?

[Matthew Whetton @codenutz]

@MongoDB Hi we're having major problems with our mongo atlas environment (complete outage since 15:50) and the support portal is broken. Can someone please context us at Oakbrook Finance asap

[Matthew Whetton @codenutz]

@Sonos I raised a support issue on Monday and have been waiting for nearly 3 days for a manager escalated call back. When can I for to get this call?

[DDD East Midlands @dddeastmidlands]

We Need To Talk About Tech Debt! Let @codenutz from @OakbrookFinance guide you through technical debt, how to talk about it and handle it.

https://t.co/tNUQ3oAJim

#dddem21 #techdebt

[Matthew Whetton @codenutz]

I recently spoke at @dddeastmidlands about technical debt management and how I think we can do it better. Its a topic that I'm both frustrated with and passionate about because I do think there's a better way.

https://t.co/JTXsjLrw34

[DDD East Midlands @dddeastmidlands]

Have you seen Onion Architecture with DDD and CQRS by @connellwatkins yet? If not, head over to YouTube to watch his presentation at DDD East Midlands Conference 2021. If you've watched it, watch it again!

https://t.co/eEcugKlunR

#dddem21 #cqrs #ddd

[Matthew Whetton @codenutz]

Forming a culture of security awareness is critical in protecting your organisation. I thought I’d write a little about how we think about security awareness at Oakbrook, with particular reference to phishing.

https://t.co/PxCZVr5tsC

[Matthew Whetton @codenutz]

@EdBallTech And we managed to almost get through a week with you (almost)

[Connell @connellsharp]

Expressing some thoughts in a bit more detail - it's all about drawing boxes! And arrows, of course.
https://t.co/ByJmFKM1Cf

Underpins some other things I bang on about from time to time

[Connell @connellsharp]

The #dddeastmidlands videos are now online 😍 you can watch my talk here https://t.co/9EjiZR3MHw

Thanks @ShutterSocks for putting these together

[DDD East Midlands @dddeastmidlands]

Watch talks from @ixek, @Loftio, @stephenhaunts @connellwatkins, @errantx, @madSimonJ, @codenutz, @jamesmcroft, @CliffordAgius, @stevetalkscode, @dylanbeattie, @KojoHinson, @rizbizkits, @__jcmc__ , @Dukeboxz and @lekeshow.

More talks will be uploaded next year!

[Matthew Whetton @codenutz]

@MongoDB We have booked several tickets to the conference in London but nobody has received their tickets yet. When should we be expecting them?

[Connell @connellsharp]

Been playing with a little idea of writing APIs without controllers. Just bind to models and throw them straight into a MediatR pipeline. What would you miss about controllers? https://t.co/Ibj4auPSsY

[Matthew Whetton @codenutz]

Domain orientation for right sizing services
https://t.co/ulN4rzdnHI

[Matthew Whetton @codenutz]

Well done and thanks to the team at @dddeastmidlands yesterday. Fantastically well run event work some great speakers. It was great to have the opportunity to speak and also get some Oakbrookers involved

[Connell @connellsharp]

An honour to talk at @dddeastmidlands today about Onion architecture 🧅 thanks everyone for coming along and thanks to the volunteers who made it all possible

[Matthew Whetton @codenutz]

Having a great time @dddeastmidlands with Oakbrook colleagues. @connellwatkins doing a great job speaking about onion architecture

[Matthew Whetton @codenutz]

I wrote last week at a high level about how guiding principles help engineering alignment. Following that up I wanted to provide a more detailed explanation of the principles we adopt at Oakbrook, what they mean to us and why they’re important. https://t.co/DcAzIHw2jZ

[Matthew Whetton @codenutz]

There's a balance when managing engineering teams between design freedom, architectural alignment and cognitive load.

Establishing fundamental principles in approach and regularly reviewing them is a critical ingredient in our formula at Oakbrook.

https://t.co/4fAIaPLJd6