architecture – Page 17 – Türker Yıldırım

Moving a fifteen-year-old site into the site editor

Deep diveAugust 21, 202315 min read

A theme first written in 2008, 61 template files, and an editor who cannot change a footer without a deploy.

An event log that is not an event store

Deep diveAugust 10, 202310 min read

Wanting to know what happened to an order without adopting event sourcing. A support question that takes twenty minutes and three tables.

The N+1 that only appeared in production

Deep diveJuly 29, 202310 min read

An endpoint at 40 ms locally and 2.1 seconds in production. Nine hundred queries on one request, and three on the same request in a test.

Structured logs with a correlation id, end to end

NoteJuly 25, 20232 min read

A request that touches the web process, a queue job and an outbound API call produces three sets of logs with nothing connecting them. The propagation across the…

Import blocks, in a plan somebody can review

NoteJuly 19, 20232 min read

Adopting an existing resource used to be a command run against state, invisible to review and impossible to repeat. Seeing the drift in the plan is the improvement…

Reading from a replica after a write, and the lie it tells

NoteJuly 18, 20232 min read

A form that saves and redirects to a page that reads, with a replica that is 200 ms behind and a redirect that takes 40. Sticky-per-request covers the…

Two services that share a deploy, which is one service

NoteJuly 17, 20232 min read

Two repositories, two containers, one pipeline that deploys them together and a rollback that has to move both. The distribution is real and the independence is not, which…

The state file two people wrote to at once

Deep diveJuly 14, 202310 min read

Two pipelines, one state file, and a plan that proposed deleting a database. A lock held by a run cancelled forty minutes earlier.

Container queries, and the component that stopped needing a prop

Deep diveJuly 7, 202310 min read

A card with a variant prop that exists only to describe its width, rendered wrong in a sidebar somebody added last week.

Patterns as a deliverable, and the editor who stopped asking us

Deep diveJune 27, 20239 min read

A request for a new landing page layout, for the ninth time. Every campaign page a developer ticket, for work that is arrangement.