Andy Blackledge

Andy Blackledge

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I've been coding since 1982, when my dad bought a 1K ZX81. I've been paid to code since 1991, journeying from mainframe development, through PC development, and now finding myself in the cloud.

Step Function Errors Should Be Errors

Nov 29, 20235 min read

Think before you use errors for flow control · In this post, we shall see the consequences and limitations of using step function errors as flow...

Step Function Errors Should Be Errors

My first steps with the future of programming

Oct 22, 202310 min read

Using SudoLang and ChatGPT for humorous purposes · 40 years ago I saw someone try to program with natural language. Now that has become a reality with...

My first steps with the future of programming

Adventures with AWS X-Ray and CDK - Part 3

Sep 24, 20237 min read

Instrumenting a whole application · In this post I continue my adventures with X-Ray and try my hand at observing a whole application. In the previous...

Adventures with AWS X-Ray and CDK - Part 3

Adventures with AWS X-Ray and CDK - Part 2

Aug 29, 20236 min read

Debugging an asynchronous step function · In the first part of this series, I added AWS X-Ray to a set of examples for my CDK Cloud Test Kit. In this...

Adventures with AWS X-Ray and CDK - Part 2

Adventures with AWS X-Ray and CDK - Part 1

Aug 8, 20237 min read

Finding our way · One of the big challenges of distributed systems, such as serverless, is observability. In previous posts, I had a look at structured...

Adventures with AWS X-Ray and CDK - Part 1

Encapsulation Not Always Desirable

Jul 2, 20234 min read

From my earliest experience with object-oriented programming, I learnt that one of the biggest benefits of the paradigm was the concept of...

Encapsulation Not Always Desirable