Consul in practice
2018.253Service discovery, health checks, and dynamic config across a growing fleet of microservices -- and the moment KV store got too popular.
Architecture
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The GraphQL buffer
2018.110A GraphQL gateway that started as a unified API layer for clients became the place where we could intervene without touching the backends.
2017
The same tree, twice
2017.265I've built a rules engine twice, in two languages, at two scales. The tree is the same.
Designing a wallet
2017.232What a digital wallet looks like underneath -- a balance, a ledger, idempotency keys, and the gap between moving money and moving money correctly.
The promocode engine
2017.201A rules engine that answers yes or no during checkout, with condition trees built by people who don't code.
The first service
2017.074Picking the first piece to cut from a Perl monolith, rewriting it in Go, and switching over before you lose your nerve.
2015
Building with one other person
2015.084What a codebase looks like when two people build everything -- 350 commits, and a todo list with two items.
2014
Two-sided graph
2014.319Adding businesses to a social platform built on Neo4j -- and realizing both sides of the marketplace use the same graph patterns.
The middleware chain
2014.232Two people, one Express app, and eight middleware functions between the request and the response.
2012
Running two systems at once
2012.325Replacing an e-commerce frontend without turning off the old one -- carving over layer by layer while the store takes orders.