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A Real-Time Full-Stack Web Application from a Mockup and a 1-Paragraph Prompt
Contract-first development for full-stack web applications is here, thanks to agentic AI code assistants like Kiro.
Melvin Jones
Sep 94 min read


Salad Bowls & DNA Files: Mastering Fan-Out/Fan-In in the Cloud
Building a Neighborhood Salad : Imagine you’re hosting a big picnic and decide to make one gigantic salad. You hand each of six neighbors...
Melvin Jones
Jun 92 min read


Presentation: The Circuit Breaker Pattern
Here's a PDF copy of my presentation on the Circuit Breaker pattern. Click to download.
Melvin Jones
Jun 31 min read


Embracing Resilience: Why the Circuit Breaker Pattern Is Your Service’s Best Friend
A practical guide to implementing the Circuit Breaker pattern with Resilience4j in AWS Lambda—complete with metrics in CloudWatch and automated alerts—to protect your services from cascading failures and ensure rapid recovery.
Melvin Jones
May 253 min read


Local Kafka-to-FHIR Pipeline for Real-Time ECG Vitals
How to build and run a local Docker Compose-based pipeline that generates synthetic ECG vitals, streams them through Kafka, transforms them into FHIR Observation resources, and stores them in MongoDB to demonstrate a practical healthcare interoperability proof of concept.
Melvin Jones
May 162 min read


Efficient Kafka Streaming with Batching and Compression
By batching hundreds of JSON events into one compressed payload, you can dramatically boost Kafka throughput and slash bandwidth overhead.
Melvin Jones
May 152 min read
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