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…

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…

Never did we have the power to create a massively scalable application, reaching users globally, with amazing productivity built and operated by a single development team. That sounds like the holy grail promised by lots of vendors, enforced with matching process and organization frameworks like Scrum, SAFe, BizDevOps. Not everybody…

This article offers a way to create a windowed snapshot of your data in DynamoDB. This is a solution to create a historized view of your table state. AWS offers great Serverless tools to create an event-full real-time platform. A common pattern is to use message busses like Eventbridge, Kinesis…

The product owner is one of the most elusive roles known to the software creation process. It’s also the most influential role when it comes to a software development team’s output. …

Managing SES using CDK writing infrastructure proved incomplete. I used CDK custom resources to activate an SES ruleset. Read about the background of my problem or jump right to the solution chapter. Some background on managing SES with CDK Recently I needed to create a solution involving an SES-based email inbox. SES is a great tool to…