Parsing Fixed-Length and Dynamic Banking Files with Apache Camel
How I use Apache Camel and Bindy to parse the fixed-length and variable-length files banks still exchange — PLSTRECS, GL, ACH/NACHA and friends — without drowning in substring() calls.
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Notes on backend architecture, cloud, DevOps, and building software that lasts.
Reliable SFTP Integration with Apache Camel: Idempotency, Retries & Dead Letters
The operational patterns that keep a file-based integration from double-processing or silently losing data — idempotent consumers, redelivery policies, and dead-letter channels in Apache Camel.
Designing Idempotent Payment APIs in Spring Boot
A practical pattern for making payment endpoints safe to retry — idempotency keys, a dedupe store, and the edge cases that bite you in production.
The Strangler Fig: Migrating a Monolith Without the Big Bang
How to decompose a monolith incrementally with an anti-corruption layer and feature flags, so you ship value the whole way through.
Why I Ship Marketing Sites as Static Astro on Cloudflare Pages
Fast by default, cheap to run, and trivial to deploy. A short case for the static Astro + Cloudflare Pages stack behind this very site.