Barney Parker

Organization Terraform State Buckets Terraform requires a backend to store state files.

Token Bucket Rate Limiter Standard Rate Limiting A common requirement for many APIs is to limit the number of requests that can be made per unit of time.

Introduction Twice a year it happens.

What is Storage First Design?

What is Gamification?

What is Laziness Engineering?

Whats wrong with Logs and Metrics?

Introduction Is any system there are competing proprities that need to be balanced, however not all proirities are created equal!

Introduction Over the years I have picked up various insights and best practices related to system design.

Introduction Developing and running software systems is a complicated balancing act between keeping the lights on, satisfying various competing demands from the business and its customers, and staying ahead of the competition.

Going Build-less I don’t do a huge amount of front end work, but from time to time I do need to put together a small front-end.

Import maps let you use short names when importing packages in the browser rather than using script tags.

Uploading a single file to S3 using Terraform is pretty simple, but sometimes you need to upload a whole folder.

Securing legacy applications which were deigned for internal use only has become a hot topic in these times of sudden remote working.

Terraform has the capability to create a zip file containing Function code, and for simpler functions that’s fine.

API Gateway has always been somewhat of a beast to configure, and while its incredibly flexible its also far more hassle than most people want or need.

Serverless architectures are built from a collection of Managed service wired together to create a specific service.

Barney is pretty special :)

I am pretty new to web/JavaScript development, and often quickly reach for Google in order to find out how to do things.