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Jon Lauridsen

Jon Lauridsen

Event-Driven Architecture: A Quick Primer

Discover the transformative impact of Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) on system resilience and scalability in modern software development

7 min readJan 20, 2024

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Jon Lauridsen

How to sanely configure your application

There is an awkward friction in frameworks that offer to start your application, like rails serve and next start, because they swallow up…

3 min readJan 13, 2024

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Jon Lauridsen

Dare to discuss the Big Ideas

All teams I’ve been in and talked to have thrown around Big Ideas that would do something amazing for their customers or fundamentally…

3 min readJan 12, 2024

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Jon Lauridsen

Do one thing at a time

You ever been on teams that work on a lot of projects at once? I’ve found it very commonplace, and it’s not just something programmers do…

3 min readJan 11, 2024

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Jon Lauridsen

Database constraints considered harmful?

In relational databases it’s common practice to create constraints to lock down the data and its relationship to other tables. So, a Users…

4 min readJan 10, 2024

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Jon Lauridsen

Simple, specific ways to improve as a team

Teams should always seek to get better, but there are infinite ways of (trying to) improve. It can seem overwhelming.

2 min readJan 9, 2024

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Jon Lauridsen

Estimates don’t work, but there’s a simpler way

Move beyond estimates, forecast based on past performance data instead. Embrace a simpler approach to planning.

4 min readJan 8, 2024

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Jon Lauridsen

Don’t backlog your bugs

It’s an unproductive anti-pattern to put bugs into the backlog, where they just grow old and fester. It’s really time to stop that.

2 min readJan 6, 2024

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Jon Lauridsen

Listen to your Code

Learn to ‘listen’ to your code. Discover the art of reflective programming for better, more sustainable code 🌱

2 min readJan 5, 2024

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Jon Lauridsen

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tools, pipelines & code quality

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