Author: JesterXL

If you’re a Functional Programmer in an interview & an Object Oriented dev asks “Do you FP peeps use Chicago or London style?” the tl;dr; answer is “Both.”

Dave has great coverage of the 2 styles. Let’s cover the nuances as an FP dev… 🧵

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Testing & CICD in AWS is something I’m learning. It’s hard because … there seems to be this “AWS way to do things” and “rest of the world”, but even the AWS way isn’t always documented.

Take integration tests for a Back-end for Front-end…

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Introduction

The REGAL Architecture is a tech stack brought together using industry best practices and modern tooling for building web applications. If you want to build, deploy, and host a full stack web application with little to no runtime exceptions, minuscule downtime, and confident, yet reasonably fast iteration, REGAL is for you. Nothing is invented here, it’s just a combination of existing technology brought together in a cohesive tech stack.

REGAL stands for the core technologies used in the tech stack:

• R: ReScript
• E: Elm
• G: GraphQL
• A: AWS Amplify and AppSync
• L: AWS Lambda

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Interesting domain modelling challenge happened this week. Remember the difference between ValueObjects and DataTransferObjects? DTO’s are over the wire and VO’s are your domain objects, usually bereft of behavior?

This was a pattern I thought I’d never use again.

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