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Ricky Moorhouse
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Cloud Architect for IBM API Connect Blog: https://rickymoorhouse.uk Sifa: https://sifa.id/p/rickymoorhouse.uk
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Cloud Architect for IBM API Connect - helping you to manage your APIs in the cloud · STSM API Management on Cloud at IBM (United Kingdom) · Winchester, England, United Kingdom
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Sifa ID 🪿@sifa.id · 2w agoToday we launch the "Talks & sessions" section of your Sifa profile, aimed at people that... well... talk a lot 😅 Another example on how we can go beyond a "standard" CV or online profile and customize it to the things you actually did/do. 💪
Version everything - getting into the habit of treating everything as code gives you an easy way back, tracking and a review process built in - rickymoorhouse.uk//blog/2026/e...
Everything as code
A valuable technique I've found is treating everything I can as code - checked in, reviewed, and versioned. This post covers what that looks like across infrastructure, deployments, APIs, and even doc...
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Nice wander along the River Arun from Amberley before Laura and Jess set off on the next leg of the South Downs Way
In positive news, was just reading about an island in Chile that installed open water solar panels and a bunch of tuna and salmon moved in underneath them because the vibrations of diesel energy had ceased. :) The world could be so good if people were just smarter everywhere.
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Lovely evening out at Stansted Park for the This Is My Theatres production of The Great Gatsby
I’ve been tinkering with ways to make my blog content more readable for both humans and AI agents. I thought it would be helpful to share the process of how I used python to integrate standard.site: rickymoorhouse.uk/blog/2026/ma...
Machine-readable?
I've always been interested in ensuring my blog was readable to humans and machines - so over the years I've added and experimented with different ways to do this as what it means to be machine readab...
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When you see a tree in the middle of a road, please be patient as it takes time for them to cross
I wrote up some thoughts about MCP different models and considerations rickymoorhouse.uk/blog/2026/mc...
MCP Ponderings
Agents are only as good as the access they have to accurate data and business functions. LLMs have a cut off point as to what they know - they're trained on a set of data and anything beyond that is u...
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Announcing: keytrace.dev Take your @bsky.app / @atproto.com account and connect it to your other accounts around the internet. Keytrace cryptographically verifies your connected accounts so other social apps can trust the data. Learn more: keytrace.dev/blog/introdu...
Keytrace - You be you, everywhere.
Link your GitHub, domain, and other accounts to your internet handle. Cryptographically signed, user-owned, and portable.
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I wrote a new blog post on securing sensitive data in api logging with API Connect - rickymoorhouse.uk/blog/2026/se...
Securing Sensitive Payload Logging in API Connect
Unintentionally logging sensitive customer data (PII, financial info) is a major compliance risk. When deploying APIs, ensuring that this data is kept out of your logs requires robust, layered control...
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The requirement to go multi-region can arrive suddenly: a business demand, a compliance deadline, or the aftermath of an incident. Here are some things you need to think through rickymoorhouse.uk/blog/2026/de...
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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I wrote about some of the key areas my SRE experience influences my thinking jn architecture: rickymoorhouse.uk/blog/2026/th... #sre #api #architecture
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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Finished reading: Wool by Hugh Howey 📚 hughhowey.com/books/wool/ Enjoyed reading this book after seeing the first two seasons of Silo which are based on it - can’t decide whether to read on or wait until after seeing the remaining seasons of the show.
Wool - Hugh Howey
This Omnibus Edition collects the five Wool books into a single volume. It is for those who arrived late to the party and who wish to save a dollar or two while picking up the same stories in a single...
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Recent side project: a status light to indicate to my family when my camera is on for a video call: rickymoorhouse.uk/blog/2025/st...
Didn’t get any shots for last weeks frames #T heCompoChallenge . Here’s my first attempt for subject isolation / contrast
Speccy, Spectral, Vacuum, Zally, you name it. There are plenty of linters and API description validators out there. While being able to enforce the rules for your APIs programmatically is fine, that is not what API Governance is about apichangelog.substack.com/p/api-govern...
API Governance Isn't Just Rule Automation
Automating API rules isn't the only thing governance is about.
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