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12/26/2019
A new feature was due before a code freeze days before Christmas. We’d committed to a release before the end of the year and the project was…
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As both a hobbyist & a professional, I'm a passionate software engineer & love building highly scalable distributed systems.
Sometimes I like to write about web development, emerging trends in software engineering, scaling engineering teams, remote work, or just lifestyle in tech. Here are some of my musings.
Understanding the “Repository Pattern”
10/27/2019
The “repository” is a heavily overloaded term within software engineering, so its important to understand repository as an in memory…
Using the “Selectors” design pattern in Node.js
10/1/2019
As the back-end development world evolves — particularly the Node.js ecosystem — functional decomposition has become an essential strategy…
Building a N-Tier Express App using Dependency Injection
1/30/2019
This article assumes that you are already familiar with developing node applications with express and mongo. The aim is to take an existing…
Why Classes are better than Closures
11/21/2018
Classes in JavaScript received a ton of flak by the javascript community when they first came out, but for no good reason. They provide…
You’re not going to replay your event stream
11/19/2018
One of the selling points of Event Sourcing is this idea of the re-playable event stream. There’s plenty of literature around why event…
Documenting Your Node.js API painlessly with Swagger & Doctopus
11/14/2018
In this article i’m going to show you how to take the pain out of documenting your Node API using Swagger, and take it a step further by…
Using Promises with Express
11/1/2018
A colleague the other day introduced a handy snippet of code enabling async await usage within express route handlers and asked my opinion…
How to migrate data when building micro services
10/27/2018
When you have a big ball of mud monolith and you get this crazy idea to try building micro services, where do you start? You have users…
Why microservices shouldn’t share a database
10/27/2018
So you want to build a new micro service, huh? Just spin up a new process, connect to the database and you’re off on your way! Easy. Six …
Service Oriented Architecture in Client Side Development
12/30/2017
When starting new projects very often developers use starter kits, generators, or boilerplate templates to kick off new projects which focus…
Strategy Pattern: Encapsulating Actions
12/6/2016
Introduction Very often when writing code you hack some implementation of some business logic together
and find yourself needing to either…
Dependency Injection
12/5/2016
Introduction Overview Dependency Injection (DI) is one of those concepts that has a really intimidating
name but once you get to know it, it…