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Week 45, year 2021

  • 4 Strategies for future events with Event Sourcing - Most systems will have to deal with future or deferred events. Even the most common example of software on the web—a blog—will have the ability to “publish” a post in the future at a certain time. [Event Store blog]
  • The strong and weak forces of architecture - Evan Bottcher understands that good technical design decisions are very dependent on context. Teams that regularly work together on common goals are able to communicate regularly and negotiate changes quickly. These teams exhibit a strong force of alignment, and can make technology and design decisions that harness that strong force. As we zoom out in a larger organisation an increasingly weak force exists between teams and divisions that work independently and have less frequent collaboration. Recognising the differences in these strong and weak forces allows us to make better decisions and give better guidance for each level, allowing for more empowered teams that can move faster. more… [Martin Fowler]
  • Bliki: DefaultTrialRetire - Within each normal-sized team, limit the choice of alternatives for any class of technology to three. These are: the current sensible default, the one we're experimenting with as a trial, and the one that we hate and want to retire. The conversation goes like this: We want to introduce a new messaging technology. How many do we have already in place? Oh we have three in active use, including one that's considered legacy and we're partway through migrating off and one that we experimented with previously but didn't gain traction. Ok, so we're at our limit now. If we want to add another messaging tech then we have two choices. [Martin Fowler]
  • Dealing with Eventual Consistency and Idempotency in MongoDB projections - Auditability, diagnostics, time travelling are usually the first mentioned features when speaking about Event Sourcing. All of them are… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]
Permalink | From 08 November 2021 to 14 November 2021 | Last updated on: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 21:51:30 GMT