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I’m a Principal Systems Architect with a background in distributed systems, cloud-native engineering, and large-scale software architecture. I’m currently exploring how AI-native systems change the way we think about orchestration, runtime behaviour, observability, and stateful execution in production environments. This blog is a place to document ideas, experiments, and architectural observations around AI systems, platform engineering, distributed runtimes, and modern software architecture.

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  • Why I Created DCL: Treating Capability as a First-Class Architectural Construct

    https://russelleast.github.io/Capability-Language The Problem Was Never Code I didn’t set out to create a programming language. If anything, creating a language sounded like a terrible idea. The world doesn’t need another language. What it does need is a better way to describe software systems. Throughout my career, I’ve worked as a developer, technical lead, solution architect,…

  • Blowing off the dust

    Its been a very long time since I last blogged. Many things have happened over the last year or two that has stopped me from keeping my blog active and its decayed as a result ;-(. I had been freelancing just over a year ago and the long days and lots of travel got me…

  • Integrating Silverlight 4 with Sharepoint 2010

    Just shouting from the roof tops, a book that I have been involved with has just been published. If you are going to combine Silverlight 4 with Sharepoint 2010 then this is a must read. https://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-silverlight-4-and-sharepoint-2010-integration/book (also available from amazon etc)

  • Using WCF Async pattern with Silverlight 3

    Introduction I haven’t blogged lately over the last 6 months. Main reason being Silverlight 3, I have been using most of my time consuming myself with Silverlight 3 and related technologies, plus working on to many projects and holding down a fulltime job. My focus is about developing line of business applications that involves communicating…