Darren Taylor

Darren Taylor

Seasoned backend developer, and I do other stuff too

Domain Orchestrator - Designing our orchestrator

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.

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Domain Orchestrator - The smart consumer

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.

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Domain Orchestrator - How we reclaimed our core business logic

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

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My first Etape - 8 years ago!

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!

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Common Table Expressions (CTEs), in MySQL 8

Common Table Expressions (CTEs), in MySQL 8

An introduction to CTEs in MySQL 8, including a guide to to begin playing around with them on your machine

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My first bikepacking trip

My first bikepacking trip

The story of my first bikepacking trip, from Berlin, Germany to Bielinek, Poland

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The job offer from Berlin

The job offer from Berlin

An introduction to my story of moving away from a small, coastal town in Scotland, to one of the biggest capital cities in Europe.

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