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
Dynoxide 0.10.0: it runs in the browser now
The same DynamoDB engine now runs in a browser tab on OPFS, there's an official ~5 MB Docker image, and a storage-backend trait sits underneath it all. The biggest dynoxide release since the engine itself, and the first that breaks things.
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Running iai-callgrind on Apple Silicon
iai-callgrind needs Valgrind. Valgrind has zero Apple Silicon support. Here's the native arm64 Docker workaround I use to run deterministic instruction-count benchmarks locally - seccomp trap, --locked gotcha and all.
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How close is your DynamoDB emulator to AWS?
My DynamoDB conformance suite has a site now. Eight emulators, 684 tests, all scored against live AWS DynamoDB, with fresh results every run - standings, per-target history and the full matrix included.
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Filing my first security advisory
Logged into GitHub yesterday, hit a Dependabot alert on dynoxide, ended up filing my first GHSA. Here's what I'd tell past-me about the form, the order of operations, and the bug itself.
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