Week 51, year 2021

Models and Metaphors - One of us (Mathias) consulted for a client that acted as a broker for paying copyright holders for the use of their content. To do this, they figured out who the copyright holders of a work were. Then they tracked usage claims, calculated the amounts owed, collected the money, and made the payments. Understanding who owned what was one of the trickier parts of their business. — “It’s just a technical problem. ” — “But nobody really understands how it works!” — “Some of us understand most of it. [Mathias Verraes]
Models and Metaphors - When a complex technical domain isn’t easily captured in a model, look for metaphors that bring clarity. One of us (Mathias) consulted for a client that acted as a broker for paying copyright holders for the use of their content. … Continue reading → [The Responsible Designer]
Event Sourcing without Responsibility - This is a tale about our experience implementing event sourcing without even knowing it existed. We're a small software consultancy specializing in project work involving functional programming. It was 2015, and one of our clients was (still is, actually) a large auto-shop chain. [Event Store blog]
How to do snapshots in Marten? - Getting the state from events is a basic but controversial topic in Event Sourcing. I wrote on it longer in other article. To recap… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]
21.10.1 Release Notes - We are pleased to announce the official release of EventStoreDB OSS & Commercial version 21.10.1 long-term support (LTS). This is a patch release that contains important fixes and changes made after the 21.10.0 LTS release. This LTS release will continue to be supported until October 2023. Read more about our versioning strategy here. [Event Store blog]
My favorite musical discoveries of 2021 - I listen to a lot of interesting music, so picked out my six favorite new-to-me albums this year. I hope you find something interesting to groove to in there. more… [Martin Fowler]

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