Week 45, year 2024

  • Assessing the results of using the Strangler Fig on a Mobile App - Matthew Foster and John Mikel Amiel Regida finish their account of how they incrementally modernized a mobile application by looking at the results of their work. They achieved a significant shortening of time to new value, and found that changes in the new application could be prepared in about half the time it took on the old codebase. [Martin Fowler]
Permalink | From 04 November 2024 to 10 November 2024 | Last updated on: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 15:19:30 GMT

Week 44, year 2024

  • Using the Strangler Fig with Mobile Apps - My colleagues are often involved in modernizing legacy systems, and our approach is to do this in an incremental fashion. Doing this with a mobile application raises some specific challenges. Matthew Foster and John Mikel Amiel Regida share their experiences of a recent engagement to do this, shifting from a monolithic legacy application to one using a modular micro-app architecture. [Martin Fowler]
  • Diving deeper into using the Strangler Fig with Mobile Apps - Matthew Foster and John Mikel Amiel Regida dive into the details of incrementally modernizing a legacy mobile application. They look at how to implant the strangler fig into the existing app, setting up bi-directional communication between the new app and the legacy, and ensuring effective regression testing on the overall system. [Martin Fowler]
Permalink | From 28 October 2024 to 03 November 2024 | Last updated on: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:19:28 GMT

Week 41, year 2024

  • Missed #AxonIQCon24? Catch every moment on YouTube - Didn’t make it to AxonIQ Conference 2024? No worries. We’ve got you covered with our YouTube playlist, where you can catch every talk from this year's event. [AxonIQ Blog]
  • EventStoreDB 24.10 Preview - Today, we are thrilled to announce a preview release of EventStoreDB 24.10 is available. This release is a significant update introducing important operational features and a mature set of connectors to help you build event-native applications. The highlights below represent what EventStoreDB 24.10 will offer. In addition, 24.10 introduces significant changes to how EventStoreDB is packaged and delivered to users, described below. [Event Store blog]
  • Pongo behind the scenes - If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. My plans were simple: recharge during summer, take a break in July, and then… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]
Permalink | From 07 October 2024 to 13 October 2024 | Last updated on: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 23:19:26 GMT

Week 40, year 2024

  • EventStoreDB 24.6 released - EventStoreDB 24.6 was officially released on the 26th of June 2024. Even though it is a mid-year interim release, there a quite a few feature enhancements plus some exciting new features as well. Keep reading to learn more! [Event Store blog]
  • Interviewed by Book Overflow podcast on Refactoring - I was interviewed on the Book Overflow podcast about the Refactoring book. We talked about the origins of the book, the relationship between refactoring, testing, and extreme programming, how refactoring is used in the wild, and the role of books and long-form prose today. [Martin Fowler]
Permalink | From 30 September 2024 to 06 October 2024 | Last updated on: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 15:19:27 GMT

Week 39, year 2024

  • Using GenAI to build a capability map and translate legacy systems - Alessio Ferri, Tom Coggrave, and Shodhan Sheth complete their article on what they have learned from using GenAI with legacy systems. They describe how GenAI's ability to process unstructured information makes it much easier to build a capability map of a legacy system, tying the capabilities of a system to the relevant parts of the source code. GenAI is also useful for identifying areas of dead code, and has promise for better translations of a system between platforms and languages. [Martin Fowler]
  • Integrating the Particular Service Platform with Aspire - I've been playing around with Aspire for a bit mainly to understand "is this a thing I should care about?" and part of what I wanted to do is take a complex "hello world" distributed system and convert it to Aspire. Along the way, [Jimmy Bogard]
  • Introducing Event Store License v2 (ESLv2) - A New Era for EventStoreDB At Event Store, we’ve always believed in empowering our community with open-source software while providing enterprise-level features to help organizations scale. Today, we are excited to announce an important change that will bring more clarity, simplicity, and protection to the way we deliver EventStoreDB. Starting with the 24.10 LTS release, we will transition to a new licensing model: the Event Store License v2 (ESLv2). [Event Store blog]
Permalink | From 23 September 2024 to 29 September 2024 | Last updated on: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 23:19:27 GMT