Our business rules are dissolving into infrastructure! In this blog, I want to talk about ‘Serverless Spaghetti’. A term that crept into my mind after reading AWS’s release docs for step functions. This update announced the capability of AWS Step functions to stitch together 200 AWS services. While these capabilities…

Platform teams are commonly created to provide a single place for fixing common problems. An example could be: linking your cloud’s account to the organization’s single-sign-on environment. This solution creates efficiency, you will not spend money on the same task over and over again. In many companies, this is a…

“from batteries included to batteries as service mesh” Our stack has evolved. In this article I will provide a perspective on how we deal with abstractions, components, and composability when we are building applications. …

Timestream hit general availability last year September. A timeseries database as a serverless offering was something I was really looking forward to. This blog covers my first experiences using this database offering. AWS Timestream’s offering Amazon Timestream is a new time series database for IoT, edge, and operational applications that can scale to…

Guidance for engineering managers and other tech leaders on domain-driven design and how to deal with implementing it in your organization. If you are an IT/engineering manager, enterprise architect, development manager, or in any other capacity close to modern software engineering, this blog is for you. …

Let's create Vue3, Jest-based Github Actions unit test coverage reports! Recently, I was involved in creating some DevOps duties to get some unit test coverage statistics on our DevOps pipelines. It took me more evenings than I wished for, so I will share my setup for this combination of techniques…

Over the course of five years, I have the positioning of business rules changing in Serverless landscapes. In the past Lambdas used to rule the landscape and contain all my business rules, increasingly I see the business logic split and scattered to peripheral services. AWS Step-functions has become a really…

A minimalist DDD approach Domain thinking has been one of the most influential aids in my software engineering. Going through the process of creating DDD-style microservices, in a carefully crafted domain design, was career-changing. Once your eyes are opened they cannot be made undone. In all my projects afterward I…

Previously (part 1) I showed my view on using maturity models in improving software delivery capabilities. In this blog, I will show how I use these models to improve maturity. Working with maturity models In the past ten years, I have worked with a wide range of software delivery maturity models. Once you internalized…