engineering DynamoDB Stream Processing: Scaling it up This is Part II of the Data Streaming from DynamoDB series. You can read Part I where the primary focus is on a use case where stream processing is helpful(indexing data in ElasticSearch). We evaluated the available options to process streams and discussed
engineering DynamoDB Stream Processing DynamoDB Streams makes change data capture from database available on an event stream. One of the use cases for processing DynamoDB streams is to index the data in ElasticSearch for full text search or doing analytics. In this post, we will evaluate technology options
engineering Platform Migration is hard – Data Migration is even harder In my last blog, I talked about application rewrites. In this post, I would like to focus on Platform rewrite, which is a flavor of application rewrite. The motivation for
engineering Application Rewrite In my experience, every successful application will eventually reach a stage, when it becomes worthwhile contemplating, if it is a better investment to continue to improve on the existing codebase
engineering Project Lombok & Spring's @Qualifer annotation When @hoserdude & I stood up QuickBooks Self-Employed's backend almost 4 years ago, Spring Boot was the new shiny thing offering RoR type productivity in the Java world. We fell in love with Spring's Dependency Injection via the @Autowired annotation - we used the
engineering The role of a Software Engineering Manager Photo by NESA by Makers / UnsplashThis is an opinionated view based on my observations as an Engineer and a people leader in sizable organizations over the past couple of decades. I have had the privilege of learning from great managers & colleagues. I have
