https://devonburriss.me/ Mostly explorations in code en-gb Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:35:38 GMT Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:35:38 GMT https://devonburriss.me/llms-not-junior/ Sun, 21 Dec 2025 23:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/llms-not-junior/ Sometimes better, sometimes worse, always different https://devonburriss.me/automating-agentic-code-migrations/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/automating-agentic-code-migrations/ Managing agents at scale with GitHub https://devonburriss.me/my-terminal-helper/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 23:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/my-terminal-helper/ Asking for help without leaving the terminal https://devonburriss.me/automation-heuristics/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/automation-heuristics/ Some rules of thumb for automation https://devonburriss.me/yagnyagni/ Fri, 06 Jan 2023 23:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/yagnyagni/ Is YAGNI a principle that should always be followed? No. Principles are guides, you still need to think. https://devonburriss.me/telemetry-tips/ Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/telemetry-tips/ When getting started with a new telemetry platform you may not know what conventions you need to set and follow for metrics, logs, code, etc.. Even if you do, how do you get the rest of the team to follow them too. https://devonburriss.me/choosing-a-telemetry-platform/ Sun, 05 Jun 2022 22:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/choosing-a-telemetry-platform/ When looking at a telemetry platform we will often look at support for a cloud provider, specific technologies supported, or maybe price. Something often not considered is usability. https://devonburriss.me/tools-for-arch-docs/ Mon, 23 May 2022 22:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/tools-for-arch-docs/ Using a devcontainer with VS Code makes it easy for everyone to get up and running creating C4, PlantUML, and Mermaid diagrams. https://devonburriss.me/fp-architecture/ Thu, 23 Dec 2021 23:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/fp-architecture/ If we apply the ideas of FP can we land at an architecture that rises out of the core ideas of high-order functions and pure functions? https://devonburriss.me/useful-fp-language-features/ Wed, 22 Dec 2021 23:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/useful-fp-language-features/ A review of some language features like immutability and algebraic data types that work well in a functional style of programming. https://devonburriss.me/what-is-fp/ Tue, 21 Dec 2021 23:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/what-is-fp/ A review of the big ideas in functional programming like pure functions, higher-order functions, and composition. This will form the baseline for future posts on designing and structuring a functional codebase. https://devonburriss.me/reliable-apis-part-3/ Sat, 28 Aug 2021 22:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/reliable-apis-part-3/ A better idempotency implementation using client-generated IDs. https://devonburriss.me/reliable-apis-part-2/ Sun, 22 Aug 2021 22:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/reliable-apis-part-2/ An example of a bad resilience implementation and discussion of the failure modes. https://devonburriss.me/reliable-apis-part-1/ Sat, 21 Aug 2021 22:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/reliable-apis-part-1/ Takes a look at using retry policies to increase the reliability of calls to APIs as well as the endpoint internals. This post looks at how retry-policies can go wrong and walks through analysing for proper use. https://devonburriss.me/azfunc-prometheus-endpoint/ Sun, 31 Jan 2021 23:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/azfunc-prometheus-endpoint/ A simple example showing how to expose a Prometheus endpoint from Azure Functions using the Fennel library https://devonburriss.me/prometheus-datadog-agent/ Sat, 30 Jan 2021 23:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/prometheus-datadog-agent/ In this post we configure a Datadog agent to scrape metrics from a Prometheus metrics endpoint. https://devonburriss.me/local-prometheus-setup/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 23:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/local-prometheus-setup/ Using docker to run a local Prometheus instance for testing. https://devonburriss.me/meaning-of-meditation/ Fri, 08 Jan 2021 23:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/meaning-of-meditation/ By combining different traditions of meditation skillfully we can improve our contentment and treat others with kindness https://devonburriss.me/prometheus-parser-fennel/ Wed, 23 Dec 2020 23:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/prometheus-parser-fennel/ This post shows some of the results both in text parsing and end Promethean result of creating a parser. https://devonburriss.me/converting-fsharp-csharp/ Mon, 04 May 2020 22:00:00 GMT Devon Burriss https://devonburriss.me/converting-fsharp-csharp/ In this post we look at converting between F# collections like Seq, List, Array and common C# collections and interfaces.