Process

Composable architecture - How is this any different from microservices?

What’s the buzz all about Composable Architecture? Isn’t that just microservices?

javascript

In Praise Of Logging (A Node.js/Javascript Logging Guide)

In this post, I'm going to outline some good practices I've learned along the way and (hopefully) convince you why you should consider using a logging framework immediately instead of console.log statements.

Chatgpt

We asked ChatGPT to architect our application and this is what happened

I asked ChatGPT to help us get started with our app architecture. This is what happened.

Platforms

I believe I can Fly [A Fly.io review]

Very soon Fly will become a contender to fully replace Heroku and will be much more simple and easy to use than something like Kubernetes or any of AWS's offerings. Right now, it's great for hobbyists or a team with one or two developers.

People

Why and how to create your own Mastodon server on AWS with Terraform

We've updated and open-sourced Terraform scripts to bootstrap your own Mastodon server using AWS, Elastic Container Service and Fargate.

java

Finding Database Issues Fast with Java and Spring Boot

What if you could catch badly performing queries during your local development process? The Spring Boot SQL Explain library does this for you.

Matt Merrill

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