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This article assumes you are familiar with the never type, exhaustive checks, and the concept of failing fast. If you aren't yet, or want a refresher, here are some resources to get up to speed: When to use never and unknown in TypeScript The power ...
Those of us who use Trunk Based Development as the foundation of our approach to Continuous Delivery or continuous Deployment are familiar with the use of Feature Toggles to prevent work in progress changes becoming prematurely available to cus...
By removing the constraint of atomicity for a transaction, we can break up a long lived transaction T into several transactions: \(T_{1},T_{2},T_{3},T_{n}\) In order to maintain consistency, we must also provide compensatory transactions for failure ...
Singletons are commonly used in Object Oriented Programming when we want to enforce that there is only ever a single instance of a class. This might be because we are trying to encapsulate some global state between processes. In this article I am goi...
If you've used frameworks like Rails, Django, or even Hasura, you are probably familiar with the concept of "up" migrations and "down" migrations. These might also be called forwards and backwards, or in flyway they are called "undo" migrations. For ...
If you've ever heard Greg Young talk about Event Sourcing (ES), or met one of its enthusiasts, you've probably never gone from "Huh?!" to "Holy S#%T!" faster in your life. And then promptly had an overwhelming sense of dread at the concept of actuall...
