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Why structured architecture docs are the most undervalued asset in engineering, and how AI is about to change that

Most teams write specs and forget them.

Why context, not content, is the real challenge for modern documentation

I Installed OpenClaw 48 Hours Ago… and It’s starting to feel like a teammate

My thoughts and lessons on selling to developers; and why a focus on value, advocacy and internal champions can help.

So you finished an EventStorming session, you have 100s of post-it notes.

The hidden trap in event-driven architecture that few talk about

My thoughts on the pitfalls of diagram tools today, the value lost, and why we can do better.

The three most common pitfalls organizations fall into when building event-driven architectures.

Reflecting on event-driven architecture, it's problems and what needs to change.

Some lessons learnt turning my open source side project into a full time job.

Here are 10 lessons I have learnt so far whilst bootstrapping my open source project into a sustainable product.

As a bootstrapped developer it's easy to keep caught up just shipping features, especially as we lean into AI tools to assist us, but going too fast might be a problem?

Open source business models are hard.

This is David’s Substack.

Overview of 3 guardrails you can put in place to manage event-driven architecture complexity

Overview of 5 open source standards and specifications you should know when building event-driven architectures

A pattern that allows you to trigger EventBridge events in the future, scaling to thousands of events.

Raise business events into EventBridge listening to changes from your database

Using AWS Lambda to enrich EventBridge events for downstream consumers.

Example of how to raise events with large payloads using Amazon EventBridge.

Should you validate your events?

I want to share with you an experimental Step Functions pattern that allows you to replay events from eventbridge at the same time they happened.

I want to share with you the next chapter in my journey and what I will be doing next.

A new online open source tool to help engineers generate input templates and paths for Amazon EventBridge Rules

Should we standardise our events?

A new Open Source tool to help engineers Discover, Explore and Document your Event Driven Architectures.

Schema Registry is great, but can we do more?

Using Postman to observe your EventBridge events in real time

A new Open Source tool to help engineers Publish, Save and Share Amazon EventBridge Events

In this short post I will share with you my brief experience building and working in public and reasons why you should consider it.

Using your Amazon EventBridge Schemas with EventBridge Atlas to generate Node Diagrams!

Using your Amazon EventBridge Schemas with EventBridge Atlas to generate AsyncAPI documentation.

A new tool to help engineers find, document and explore Amazon EventBridge Schemas.

How to use AWS CloudWatch Logs to view, debug and analyse EventBridge Events.

Sometimes we feel we want to to refactor things, but before we do we have to understand our options.

Looking back these are 10 things I wish I knew when starting out leading teams...

I have had a great experience using Enzyme over the past few years testing React applications but with the exploration of react-testing-library my mindset has and continues to shift into what I believe is a better pattern of testing.

In this blog post, I'm talking from my experience, and how the development log continues to help my career and also my personal growth.

My experience moving from Junior Developer to Technical lead and advice to others.