Devon Burriss' Blog

Mostly explorations in code

You ain't gonna need YAGNI

You ain't gonna notice it

Posted by Devon Burriss on January 07, 2023

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With some topics, you reliably get experienced software developers arguing on both sides of said topic. When this occurs frequently for a particular topic, I believe that it is that both sides are simultaneously right and wrong. This idea can be generalized but let's take the principle of YAGNI. How can both sides be right and wrong? Well, because it depends.

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Telemetry tips

Some tips to keep your telemetry data and code clean

Posted by Devon Burriss on June 15, 2022

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Choosing a telemetry platform

A look at some of the non-obvious points to consider

Posted by Devon Burriss on June 06, 2022

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Tools for architecture documentation

Using devcontainers to enable easy developer documentation

Posted by Devon Burriss on May 24, 2022

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A simple FP architecture

How do I build a production application in a functional language?

Posted by Devon Burriss on December 24, 2021

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Useful FP language features

Making functional programming more productive

Posted by Devon Burriss on December 23, 2021

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What is Functional Programming?

...and why should you care?

Posted by Devon Burriss on December 22, 2021

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Reliable APIs - Part 3

The epic saga of client-side IDs and true idempotency

Posted by Devon Burriss on August 29, 2021

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Reliable APIs - Part 2

Using Idempotency-Key and a response cache

Posted by Devon Burriss on August 23, 2021

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Reliable APIs - Part 1

Exploring reties, retry implications, and the failure modes they are appropriate for

Posted by Devon Burriss on August 22, 2021

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About me

A South African living in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Software development, clean code, functional programming, Domain-Driven Design, TDD, other acronyms. Basically I just like learning new things and want to get better at what I love doing. Occassionally I write about what I learn here.