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Ricky Moorhouse

Ricky Moorhouse

@rickymoorhouse.uk

Ricky's personal corner of the web - photos, APIs, travel and tech

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Everything as code

Version everything - getting into the habit of treating everything as code gives you an easy way back, tracking and a review process built in.

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Why Human Thinking Still Matters

We're building tools to save time, yet we often find ourselves with less time to think about why we're building them. A reflection on reclaiming the "messy" human part of the development process in the age of AI.

Machine-readable?

Applying metadata standards and formats to improve the readability of my blog for machines of different types.

Securing Sensitive Payload Logging in API Connect

Overview of ways to handle sensitive data payloads within API Connect and controlling where that data ends up.

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Cheriton Circular

Short circular walk around Cheriton with beautiful views around the area.

API Versioning is a Contract Commitment, not a Technical Choice

Observability as a design requirement

Observability is a design decision, not an afterthought. From the platform team to API consumers to AI agents, knowing what is happening across your API — and building that in from the start — is what gives you confidence when things go wrong in production.

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Designing for Multi-Region API Deployments

A practical guide to designing multi-region API deployments - covering data consistency, auth dependencies, traffic routing, and failure modes, with real-world lessons from IBM API Connect SaaS.

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The SRE Mindset in API Architecture

How my SRE experience with sizing, observability and SLOs shapes the way I approach API architecture - planning for reality, not hopes.

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Automatically publish your API when you push to github

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