Book: Event-Driven Architecture Pocket Guide

Also by me: Database Playbook: Choosing the Right Store for Every System You Build

My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools

Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub

The card charged at 02:14 UTC. The shipping service threw a 502 at 02:14:03. By 02:14:09 your retry loop had charged the same card a second time and still produced zero shipped boxes. Customer support is now telling a person they were billed $148.50 for a product that does not exist in any warehouse system you own.

That's a saga with no compensation discipline.…