Designing intelligent systems, one layer at a time.
Three years ago, I inherited a distributed system that processed insurance claims across twelve microservices. The orchestration logic lived in a tangled web of message queues, retry handlers, and compensating…
Separate read and write operations for better scalability and simpler code.
Abstract data access logic behind a clean interface for testability and flexibility.
Use structured JSON logging for better searchability and analysis in cloud environments.
Share common code and dependencies across Lambda functions to reduce deployment size.
Use MERGE (upsert) for safe, rerunnable data pipelines that handle duplicates gracefully.