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

Your documentation is a model, not a wiki page

Most teams write specs and forget them. Here's how to turn them into a catalog your whole org can browse, search, and understand.

Your AsyncAPI specs deserve more than a repo. Give them discoverability.

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

Domain-Driven Documentation: Documentation was never the problem

I Installed OpenClaw 48 Hours Ago&#8230; and It&#8217;s starting to feel like a teammate

I think I just hired...... a robot?

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

Don't sell to developers. Focus on value, advocacy and creating internal champions

So you finished an EventStorming session, you have 100s of post-it notes. What's next? In this blog post I explore an experiment of turning EventStorming into EventCatalog using MCP.

Can you get more value from your EventStorming workshops? I think you can....

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

Before You Publish Your First Event… Stop.

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

Do we need another diagram tool? Maybe not… But I think we can do better

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

How to Stop Your Event-Driven Architecture from Turning Into Chaos

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

Event-driven architecture is a shit show - It’s time to fix it

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

From side project to full time; 12 months of open source

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

10 Lessons from 6 Months of Bootstrapping My Open Source Startup

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?

Can a product release too often? Yes, I think it can.

Open source business models are hard. A question I often get it why is it even open source? Here are some of my thoughts on that, and reasons why

Why is your product Open Source?

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

Simplifying Event-Driven Architecture: 3 Guardrails to avoid accidental complexity

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

5 open source standards 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.

How to raise EventBridge events in the future with EventBridge Scheduler

Raise business events into EventBridge listening to changes from your database

Publishing EventBridge events with DynamoDB Streams

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

How to publish large events with Amazon EventBridge using the claim check pattern.

Using AWS Lambda to enrich EventBridge events for downstream consumers.

Enriching events with Amazon EventBridge and AWS Lambda

Should you validate your events? Summary of thoughts from engineers.

Exploring Event Validation

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.

Replaying Amazon EventBridge events with AWS Step Functions

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

My next chapter...

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

Introducing EventBridge Transformer

Should we standardise our events? What are the benefits? Who is doing this? Lets explore

Amazon EventBridge: Event Payload Standards

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

Introducing EventCatalog

Schema Registry is great, but can we do more? In this post I explore Event documentation and share with you EventCatalog.

Event-Driven Architecture: Beyond the Schema Registry

Using Postman to observe your EventBridge events in real time

How to Observe EventBridge Events with Postman and WebSockets

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

Introducing EventBridge Canon

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

Working in Public: Skeptic to Believer

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

Amazon EventBridge with Flow (Node Diagrams)

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

Amazon EventBridge with AsyncAPI

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

Introducing EventBridge Atlas

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

How to debug EventBridge Events with CloudWatch

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

The Code Rewrite Trap: What It Is and How to Avoid It

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

Time Machines & Leadership: 10 things I wish I knew at the start

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.

My experience moving from Enzyme to react-testing-library

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.

Why You Should Keep A Personal Development Log

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

Hi, I’m Dave

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