Software developer & AWS consultant.
Hello. I'm Martin, a software developer and entrepreneur based in Manchester, England.
I'm a co-founder of Si Novi, where we build cloud-native applications and consult on AWS architecture. I also build tools for DynamoDB - including Dynoxide and Nubo.
Latest posts
A year with my Intel N100 home server: what changed
A year on from the £250 N100 server build. The boring infrastructure won. Unbound got removed, Tailscale earned its place, and the disk debate I lost sleep over turned out not to matter.
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Building a DynamoDB conformance suite
AWS doesn't ship a conformance suite for DynamoDB emulators, so I built one. 526 tests, ground-truthed against real DynamoDB. Dynoxide passes all of them. DynamoDB Local fails 42.
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Dynoxide 0.9.8: fixing the orphan problem
If you backgrounded dynoxide in an npm script, killing the dev server left it running. 0.9.8 fixes three root causes so the process actually dies when it should.
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Introducing Dynoxide: a fast, embeddable DynamoDB engine
I built a DynamoDB engine in Rust that starts in 15ms and passes 526 conformance tests. Here's why, and what it's for.
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