Versioning an API built with API Gateway and Lambda isn’t as straightforward as it sounds. You need to support multiple live versions without piling up technical debt or duplicating infrastructure. In this post, we look at practical strategies for managin[...]

When we talk about event-driven architectures, we often focus on things like loose coupling, scalability and DDD. But under the hood, the way consumers receive events matters just as much. And it usually comes down to one of two models: push vs poll. Your[...]

This is a continuation of Sample monorepo conversion. Since then we have learned some lessons. Also note that the monorepo conversions we have done have been of closed source code that we found was either tightly coupled or that we wanted to introduce ti[...]

Serverful (i.e. paying for uptime) services like RDS makes working with ephemeral environments more difficult and poses a cost concern. In this artcile, let's see how Neon's Serverless Postgres database solves this problem and how we can clone an existing[...]

What if you don't have to worry about event versioning or catching breaking changes anymore? What if event consumers are no longer coupled to the schema of the event and instead, subscribe to their semantics? I discovered an exciting new way to manage eve[...]

Postcodes After a pretty practical previous post about records and collections, this post is less likely to give anyone ideas about how they might tackle a problem in their own project, and doesn’t have any feature requests for Microsoft either. It’s an a[...]

For anyone currently keeping tabs or coming here from links: I’m currently posting primarily on substack here. However, the posts will eventually make it back as this is my preferred archival spot.

Records and Collections This post is to some extent a grab-bag of points of friction I’ve encountered when using records and collections within the election site. Records recap This may end up being the most generally useful blog post in this series. Alth[...]

Storage Since my last post about the data models, I’ve simplified things very slightly – basically the improvements that I thought about while writing the post have now been implemented. I won’t go into the details of the changes, as they’re not really im[...]

Data models (and view-models) and how they’re used I was considering using the term “architecture” somewhere in the title of this post, but it feels too pompous for the scale of site. I could probably justify it, but it would give me the ick every time I [...]