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
Darren Taylor
Seasoned backend developer, and I do other stuff too
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!
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
My first bikepacking trip
The story of my first bikepacking trip, from Berlin, Germany to Bielinek, Poland
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.
