Week 47, year 2024

Exploring Gen AI: Copilot's new multi-file editing - A very powerful new coding assistance feature made its way into GitHub Copilot at the end of October. This new “multi-file editing” capability expands the scope of AI assistance from small, localized suggestions to larger implementations across multiple files. Birgitta Böckeler tries out this new capability and finds out how useful its changes tend to be, and wonders about what feedback loops are needed with them. [Martin Fowler]
Event Store is evolving to Kurrent - “There’s a better way to do it — find it.” – Thomas Edison [Event Store blog]

Permalink | From 18 November 2024 to 24 November 2024 | Last updated on: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 23:19:31 GMT

Week 46, year 2024

Posting on Bluesky, and other thoughts on social media - With the recent uptick in tech activity on Bluesky, I've decided that I will start posting there in addition to my current locations. I've also put together my general thoughts on the state of social media, and how I'm using it, now that it's two years since The Muskover. [Martin Fowler]
Idempotent Command Handling - “Is your command handling idempotent?” Sounds like a douchebag question to ask. Actually, that’s not a question but a statement that we want… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]

Permalink | From 11 November 2024 to 17 November 2024 | Last updated on: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 23:19:28 GMT

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

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

Bootstrapping CRUD with Pongo - The leitmotif of this blog is the event-driven approach. I truly believe that it’s a way to keep our applications closer to business. By… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]

Permalink | From 21 October 2024 to 27 October 2024 | Last updated on: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 23:19:31 GMT

Running a regular SQL on Pongo documents - Have you heard someone say: “We’ll use this tool because it requires a long onboarding and lots of memorisation?” You could have seen the… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]

Permalink | From 14 October 2024 to 20 October 2024 | Last updated on: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:19:27 GMT

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