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Use a message envelope

7 Mar 2022 • 7 min read

Event-driven architectures have various styles of communication. In my previous post I described a couple of event types you may see in these kinds of architectures. In this post I'd like to go over a supporting practice that benefits virtually all types of...

Use a message envelope

The different types of events in event-driven systems

19 Feb 2022 • 6 min read

Event-driven systems come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. The obvious commonality is; they all use events to communicate information. These events come in many shapes and sizes, and determining what goes into an event has an immense impact on the design...

The different types of events in event-driven systems

Reliable event dispatching using a transactional outbox

20 Jan 2022 • 5 min read

Using events in a system is great, but how do you know for sure if you've reliably dispatched your events? The transportation of events needs to be done reliably while maintaining overall system consistency, be it eventual or immediately. In a typical setup,...

Reliable event dispatching using a transactional outbox

Flysystem 3.0.0 is released

14 Jan 2022 • 3 min read

On the 13th of January 2022, version 3.0.0 of Flysystem was released. The library ships a couple new methods on the main filesystem and adapter interfaces, making it a breaking change that cause a major version increase. What changed?During the...

Flysystem 3.0.0 is released

Where does my validation live?

20 Dec 2021 • 8 min read

This is a question I've received over and over again, a question that does not have a single answer. Sometimes when I explain how I approach this I get surprised reactions, so I figure I might as well share it in a blog...

Where does my validation live?

Ensuring data(base) consistency during concurrent requests

1 Nov 2021 • 8 min read

Bugs caused by race conditions can be a huge source of frustration. They are difficult to identify and often difficult to remedy. As part of my day to day job at Mollie, guarding against data inconsistencies is always top of mind. At the...

Ensuring data(base) consistency during concurrent requests

Setting up a TypeScript multi-package mono-repo for @scoped/packages.

8 Aug 2021 • 5 min read

How to use NPM workspaces for scoped packages....

Setting up a TypeScript multi-package mono-repo for @scoped/packages.

Back the func off, this is my abstraction!

1 May 2021 • 8 min read

Integrating services over API's exposes your application to a range of possible failures. At scale, any network interaction can and will fail. Implementing a retry mechanism is a common approach to increase fault tolerance. Taking into account how systems fail when designing software...

Back the func off, this is my abstraction!

A new major version of Flysystem

21 Dec 2020 • 3 min read

For those who missed it, a new major version of Flysystem was released on the 24th of November. A new major version allows you break with the past for the sake of the future, which is exactly what I've done. For the second...

A new major version of Flysystem

Testing without mocking frameworks.

23 Mar 2020 • 9 min read

Over the years, my coding practices have changed a lot. From hacking away until it works to TDD/BDD/DDD and everything in between. One of the biggest changes in my developer career has been when, why, and how I test my code....

Testing without mocking frameworks.

Setting up docs with Tailwind CSS & GitHub Pages.

12 Aug 2019 • 7 min read

To me, Tailwind CSS is one of the the most enjoyable tools to build documentation websites. It's quick, it's easy, and it gets the job done well. The library has taken the world by storm, and that doesn't surprise me one bit. When...

Setting up docs with Tailwind CSS & GitHub Pages.

Type-safe stream processing in TypeScript

2 May 2019 • 6 min read

This post contains a lot of back-story about how this all came about, you can skip ahead if you only care about the code. In case you haven't worked with TypeScript before: TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that enhances the language by...

Type-safe stream processing in TypeScript

Array destructuring in PHP

30 Apr 2018 • 3 min read

In my day to day job I write in a number of programming languages. The majority of my time is spent writing PHP but I very much enjoy writing other languages, such as Go and Javascript, too! One of the things I like...

Array destructuring in PHP

Being in control of time in PHP

8 Mar 2018 • 4 min read

When developers talk about the infrastructural boundaries or external dependencies they often talk about databases and third-party integration. They're the first thing we'll put behind an interface so we can stub them out during our tests. This gives us some control over them....

Being in control of time in PHP

Regaining trust in your test suite with Docker.

19 Jan 2018 • 3 min read

Docker, and containerised services in general, have brought a lot to the world of software development. While not everybody is (or ever should be) using docker as their deployment method, it's usefulness far exceeds being just a platform to run services on in...

Regaining trust in your test suite with Docker.
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