An alcohol free plan
A hopeful plan for staying alcohol-free for the next few months, how I'll handle social life and how I'll judge whether it works.
Darren Taylor
Seasoned backend developer, and I do other stuff too
The ups and downs of booze
An honest look at the ups and downs of alcohol, and getting to grips with its impact on my health.
Re-evaluating my relationship with alcohol
An adventure that ended with a seizure, a dislocated shoulder, and a broken arm. How a day of travel forced me to rethink my relationship with alcohol.
Domain Orchestrator - A retrospective
A look back at what went well, and things I would change or do differently
Domain Orchestrator - Our migration strategy
An insight into our migration strategy, from building observability-first dashboards to testing in production with shadow mode and executing a safe, phased rollout
Domain Orchestrator - Designing our orchestrator
How we designed our orchestrator using DDD and Ports & Adapters, and the considerations we made to build a system that was robust, scalable, and solved our core business problem.
Domain Orchestrator - The smart consumer
A look at how a simple, coupled architecture, which worked well in the early days, slowly eroded our team's autonomy as the business scaled.
Domain Orchestrator - How we reclaimed our core business logic
A case study on migrating a critical path, risk-assessment system from a consumer-driven architecture to a domain-owned orchestrator