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I’m a Principal Systems Architect with a background in distributed systems, cloud-native engineering, and large-scale software architecture. I’m currently exploring how AI-native systems change the way we think about orchestration, runtime behaviour, observability, and stateful execution in production environments. This blog is a place to document ideas, experiments, and architectural observations around AI systems, platform engineering, distributed runtimes, and modern software architecture.

Category: Domain Driven Design

  • Capabilities as a unit of architecture

    The industry keeps changing its technical shapes Over the past thirty years, software architecture has undergone multiple revolutions. We have moved from monoliths to service-oriented architectures, from services to microservices, from containers to serverless platforms, from synchronous APIs to event-driven systems. Every few years the industry discovers a new way to organise software and, for…

  • Creating Fluent finders and repositories part 1

    Introduction This is the first post of this series about implementing fluent finders and repositories, I am going to expand my current repository and finder implementation which is explained here. I recommend that you read this post (precursor) as this series continues on from this post and the code examples. The objectives for this series…

  • Implementing the Repository and Finder patterns

    Introduction Over the last year I have been developing my own application using Domain Driven Design (DDD). I am also working on products in my day job that uses DDD. In the last month, myself and my fellow developers that I work with, went on a little journey to find the right way to implement…