Week 7, year 2023

Evaluating the Differences Between EventStoreDB and Event Store Cloud - Whether you work for a start-up or a large corporate company, you need a reliable operational database to store and organize essential data, whilst improving your customer experience. [Event Store blog]
A new database technology transforming the fintech industry - As a software architect or developer in the financial industry, you're always on the lookout for new technology that can improve how your organization handles data. And every five or so years, there are new developments in database technology—consider the impact and benefits of relational databases, and hierarchical, graph, and document models. At Event Store, we recently analyzed our top fintech clients overwhelmed by the minefield of database options. [Event Store blog]
MediatR 12.0 Released - This is a pretty big release, with a number of breaking changes. Release Notes Migration Guide Breaking changes include: Depending directly on IServiceProvider to resolve services Making "void" request handlers return Task instead of Unit IRequest does not inherit IRequest<Unit> instead IBaseRequest Consolidating the MediatR.Extensions.Microsoft. [Jimmy Bogard]
I made everything loosely coupled. Will my cloud bill go up? - Loose coupling is an essential property of fine-grained, event-driven systems. However, cloud resources that decouple event producers and consumers incur a run-time cost. How to weigh the trade-offs? [The Architect Elevator]
Retrospectives Antipatterns - Retrospectives are a key element for effective software initiatives, as they allow a team to learn and improve. However, like any good practice, it's easy for teams to make mistakes that undermine their value. Aino Corry has many years facilitating retrospectives and has run into many common problems and how to solve them. Three of these skipping generating insights, getting lost in things you can't change, and being dominated by a loudmouth. [Martin Fowler]
Software Design for Startups and Scaleups - Software Captains is a organisation that helps startup CTOs through coaching, advice, and networking. In the interview, the founder Tom Klaassen and I discuss software design. We talk about challenges CTOs face, such making technical debt visible for non-technical colleagues, about how software quality is contextual, but still very important even for early stage startups. The podcast was recorded in Dutch. On YouTube, you can turn on captions and set the autogenerated translation to your language of choice. Or listen here: Spotify Apple Amazon Deezer Libsyn References: Design & Reality book Source [Mathias Verraes]
22.10.1 Release Notes - We are pleased to announce the official patch release of EventStoreDB OSS & Commercial version 22.10.1 LTS. This is a patch to the 22.10 LTS release, which will be supported until October 2024. Read more about our versioning strategy here. [Event Store blog]
Modularizing React Applications: fixing Shotgun Surgery - Juntao Qiu completes his article on modularizing react applications by identifying that the last change smelled of Shotgun Surgery and taking the steps to fix it. [Martin Fowler]
Modularizing React Applications: adding a new feature - Juntao Qiu now demonstrates how the refactored structure helps him deal with adding a charitable donation to the order and how this change prompts some further refactorings. [Martin Fowler]
Event Sourcing: a better way to audit - Does your operational database (relational, NoSQL, graph, document, etc) solve the auditing requirements you have today? [Event Store blog]
Shaky Twitter Two-Factor Authentication Interaction - Accessing Twitter this morning, I was greeted with a prompt saying that they were getting rid of text messages as a form of two-factor authentication unless you subscribed to Twitter Blue. I thought “fine”, because I don’t use text messages for that, preferring a one-time code managed by 1Password. I clicked through and it told me it had removed the text message two-factor that I didn’t have, and would I like to set up something using a one-time code or hardware dongle? It seems that Twitter had mistakenly deleted my one-time code link. I don’t think this is a huge deal, as I just set up another one-time code. But it’s the sort of thing that reinforces the impression that bits are steadily falling off Twitter. Whatever anyone thinks of this, I do urge readers to use two-factor authentication on any important service. [Martin Fowler]
Set up OpenTelemetry with Event Sourcing and Marten - If I had to select the Distributed Systems Song, I’d choose Land of Confusion. This is the world we live in. And these are the hands we’re… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]
20 year old books every architect should read - Book lists are pretty popular these days. But how about some classics? If architecture is timeless, so should be the books about it. [The Architect Elevator]
Open source wins by having as better programming model - Many projects tout portability but it's productivity that they really offer. Why not say so? [The Architect Elevator]
Fast forward that movie - Architects aren't clairvoyants But occasionally they can be a very useful FF button. [The Architect Elevator]
MediatR 12.0 Released - This is a pretty big release, with a number of breaking changes. Release Notes Migration Guide Breaking changes include: Depending directly on IServiceProvider to resolve services Making "void" request handlers return Task instead of Unit IRequest does not inherit IRequest<Unit> instead IBaseRequest Consolidating the MediatR. [Jimmy Bogard]

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