Darren Taylor

Darren Taylor

Tea Driven Developer ☕

Spec-Driven Development with SpecKit

Spec-Driven Development with SpecKit

My experience with SDD - specifically testing out SpecKit from GitHub and sharing my thoughts.

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An alcohol free plan

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.

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The ups and downs of booze

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.

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Re-evaluating my relationship with alcohol

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.

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Domain Orchestrator - A retrospective

Domain Orchestrator - A retrospective

A look back at what went well, and things I would change or do differently

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Domain Orchestrator - Our migration strategy

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

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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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