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Advisory consulting

I'm John Minnihan. You may know me as jbminn - the software guy who rides motorcycles & invented hosted source control.

I advise business leaders on accelerating their team's technology journey. You may find these posts helpful to understand my approach to business & technology.


A fresh perspective

Get an objective review of your architecture, processes & GTM strategy. No matter where you are in your company's journey, seeking new perspectives leads to valuable insights.

Approaching a challenge with a simple question: What if...? can help you reach solutions faster, more cost effectively & with less rework.

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What if...?

  • We didn't use k8s at all
  • We model our solution to be lambda-first rather than instances
  • We employ an API-first strategy for everything
  • We push as much compute to the edge as possible
  • We onboard new engineers with formal IDE training
  • We look at storage vendors as a competitive advantage


Rapid Application Modeling

Launching a new web service can be hard. You must design a scalable architecture & business logic, choose data sources, setup a dev environment, test your ideas & finally implement them.

Learn techniques that you can use today to speedup your web application development.

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Practices that work

  • Rock solid architecture patterns
  • Data source access methods
  • Time-saving VS Code extensions
  • Cloud deployment tricks
  • Cloud cost controls