Daniel OrnerMy posts over at Stack OverflowOver the last few months I’ve noticed that some people are following me on Medium. In truth, I haven’t posted much here because the vast…Jan 23, 2023Jan 23, 2023
Daniel OrnerinFlipp EngineeringCentralizing Your Docker DependenciesDeveloping with Docker is a great way to standardize your dependencies and make the development process less painful. Docker is a way to…Jul 26, 2021Jul 26, 2021
Daniel OrnerComparing Web Philosophies for a UI ProblemThe front-end ecosystem has exploded in recent years. Although the “winner” at the time of this writing appears to be React, it’s not the…Sep 17, 2020Sep 17, 2020
Daniel OrnerinFlipp EngineeringUsing rubocop-ast to transform Ruby files using Abstract Syntax TreesSometimes as you go about your business of being a software engineer, a problem crops up that is unusually interesting, potentially really…Aug 13, 20201Aug 13, 20201
Daniel OrnerinFlipp EngineeringSchema and Topic Design in Event-Driven Systems (featuring Kafka!)In the microservices world, communication between services provides a host of problems — one of them being “how do we ensure that the…May 1, 20209May 1, 20209
Daniel OrnerinFlipp EngineeringCoupling in Microservices, Part 2: Single vs. Multi-RepoIn my previous article, I discussed some of the advantages and disadvantages of single vs. multiple services. In this article, I’m going…Apr 1, 2020Apr 1, 2020
Daniel OrnerinFlipp EngineeringCoupling in Microservices, Part 1: Single vs. Multi-ServiceHere at Flipp, we use Event-Driven Microservices pretty heavily. In particular, we use Apache Kafka as our data backbone. Microservices…Feb 28, 2020Feb 28, 2020
Daniel OrnerinFlipp EngineeringIntroducing Deimos: Using Kafka as the Data Backbone for your ArchitectureIn the previous article, I detailed the microservice pattern of using Kafka as a data backbone for your architecture — Kafka acts as the…Oct 28, 2019Oct 28, 2019
Daniel OrnerinFlipp EngineeringUsing Kafka as a Data Backbone: Part 1Apache Kafka, a distributed, asynchronous streaming platform, has exploded in popularity over the last few years. It boasts a number of…Oct 28, 2019Oct 28, 2019
Daniel OrnerFrom Engineer to Manager and Back AgainNote: This is a post that originally appeared on the Flipp Engineering blog before we figured out how to use Medium Publications.Jun 21, 2019Jun 21, 2019