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.
Darren Taylor
Seasoned backend developer, and I do other stuff too
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
My first Etape - 8 years ago!
The story of my first Etape from, the Etape Caledonia 2016, as I prepare for the Etape Loch Ness 2025!