Thoughts, tutorials, and insights on software development, web technologies, and more.

PubNub

Async

Goodbye Auth0

📩 Using PubNub to simplify and secure content synchronization

I found that contentful can post content update webhook requests to a message broker called PubNub. This is how I simplified and improved the security of my portfolios backend architecture

May 21, 2024

6 min read

CSR

SSR

Static generation

🛶 Migrating from client side rendering to incremental static regeneration with NextJS

I found that social media previews for my portfolio weren't correct, this is the exploration I went on to get that working!

June 4, 2023

9 min read

Async Architecture

Auth0

Contentful Webhook

👨🏼‍🎨 Designing an authenticated asynchronous backend with Auth0 and Contentful Webhooks

Following a less than stellar system design interview. I felt that I would brush up on the skills required for a product / senior engineer in designing a asynchronous distributed system.

June 2, 2023

6 min read

DNS

/etc/hosts

Root Cause

🕵️‍♂️🤬 Investigating why the Contentful API was slow in production only

I discover that API calls to contentful were taking 15 seconds each in production, Here is my journey how I tried to fix it

June 2, 2023

6 min read

CI/CD

CircleCI

WatchTower

🥤 + 🧶 = ✨ CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI, DockerHub and Watchtower

lets talk about how I set up continuous integration and continuous deployment for my portfolio and blog with some string and a docker container.

June 2, 2023

5 min read

Contentful

Wordpress

👷 Wordpress to Contentful

Wordpress to Contentful, just some thoughts

June 2, 2023

2 min read

Rust

Contentful

API

🧱 Building a Ramshackle Contentful Client API in Rust

I walk through my process on how I built a Contentful API using Rust

June 2, 2023

8 min read

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