Week 49, year 2022

• 21.10.9 Release Notes - We are pleased to announce the official release of EventStoreDB OSS & Commercial version 21.10.9 LTS. This is an LTS release and will be supported until October 2023. Read more about our versioning strategy here. [Event Store blog]
• Share your story on Event Sourcing Live 2023 - Event Sourcing is a concept that helps to build the bridge between business and technical implementation. It’s a storage pattern that takes… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]
• The impact of a product delivery culture at Etsy - Tim Cochran completes his tale of how Etsy build a product delivery culture to help clear bottlenecks as they scaled. He discusses lean portfolio management, stronger product and engineering collaboration, and assess the impact of this initiative. [Martin Fowler]
• Installing Orbi Wifi Mesh broke my Sonos - I listen to my music using a wired set of Sonos One speakers. Last week I upgraded my wifi by installing a Netgear Orbi Wifi Mesh. After doing this my Sonos system no longer worked properly. After much hunting I managed to find the problem, and it was a simple fix. So I thought I'd share my story in case others run into a similar problem. [Martin Fowler]

Permalink | From 05 December 2022 to 11 December 2022 | Last updated on: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 20:36:50 GMT

Week 48, year 2022

• Consequences of Etsy's move to the cloud - Tim Cochran and Keyur Govande conclude their description of Etsy's cloud migration by looking at challenges, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, how they continue to learn to improve their cloud usage, and their measurements of cost and carbon consumption. [Martin Fowler]
• Introducing a product delivery culture at Etsy - A second article exploring the challenges Etsy faced as it scaled up. Tim Cochran relates how CTO Mike Fisher identified problems with the product delivery process, built a cross-functional Product Delivery Culture team to analyze the situation, and began an improvement program based on lean thinking and the ideas of Marty Cagan. [Martin Fowler]
• Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 2nd, 2022 - Never fear, HighScalability is here! 1958: An engineer wiring an early IBM computer 2021: An engineer wiring an early IBM quantum computer. @enclanglement My Stuff: I'm proud to announce a completely updated and expanded version of Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10! This version adds 2x more coverage, with special coverage of AWS, Azure, GCP, and K8s. It has 482 mostly 5 star reviews on Amazon. Here's a 100% organic, globally sourced review: Love this Stuff? I need your support on Patreon to keep this stuff going. Number Stuff: [High Scalability]
• photostream 129 - Cape Cod, MA (2017) [Martin Fowler]
• Testing asynchronous processes with a little help from .NET Channels - Let’s say that you have an event-driven application. It has an event bus that listens for events from asynchronous processes (e.g. Kafka… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]

Permalink | From 28 November 2022 to 04 December 2022 | Last updated on: Thu, 8 Jun 2023 22:06:34 GMT

Week 47, year 2022

• Etsy's observability and ML infrastructure teams moving to the cloud - Tim Cochran and Keyur Govande continue their account of how Etsy used the cloud to scale up by describing the journey of two teams: observability and ML infrastructure [Martin Fowler]
• Mapping event type by convention - Events are an essential block of Event-Driven Architecture. They represent business facts that happened in our system. We can use them to… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]

Permalink | From 21 November 2022 to 27 November 2022 | Last updated on: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 20:36:52 GMT

Week 46, year 2022

• Using CWs - One of the new features on Mastodon for a recovering twitterer is the CW field for new posts. CW stands for Content Warning. When I’m composing a post, if I press the CW button, I have the option of putting a short phrase into a dialog. Readers will initially only see that short phrase, and need to click a button to see more. But there's a lot of strong opinions on when and how to use it - how do I navigate that? [Martin Fowler]
• 22.10.0 Release Notes - We are pleased to announce the official release of EventStoreDB OSS & Commercial version 22.10.0 LTS. [Event Store blog]
• Using the cloud to scale Etsy - Etsy is a well-known marketplace for craft items. The pandemic led to a huge spike in growth, growing from 46 million buyers to 90 million buyers in two years. Etsy coped with this, with no bottlenecks in the business. One aspect of how they did this was a shift to Google cloud. Tim Cochran and Keyur Govande begin this story by describing the strategic principles that guided this effort and the incremental federated approach that they took. [Martin Fowler]
• How to get all messages through Postgres logical replication - In an earlier article, I described Push-based Outbox Pattern with Postgres Logical Replication. The idea is to store the outgoing message (e… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]

Permalink | From 14 November 2022 to 20 November 2022 | Last updated on: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 22:08:24 GMT

Week 45, year 2022

• Your organization should run its own Mastodon server - The latest crisis at Twitter has led to a big surge of interest in Mastodon and the broader Fediverse of open social media platforms. My colleague Julien Deswaef has long been an advocate of the Fediverse. Here he explains why organizations should take control of their own social media platform by running their own Mastodon server. [Martin Fowler]
• Multiple Mastodon Accounts - The usual Twitter convention is to follow the whole person, meaning one Twitter account for a person would tweet on many different subjects. In the Fediverse, however, that's not encouraged, so we'll see many people having multiple Mastodon (and other) accounts.s [Martin Fowler]
• How events can help in making the state-based approach efficient - In my last few articles, I showed the power of functional composition. That’s a foundation for effective modelling of your business logic… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]
• Production Considerations for Spring on Kubernetes - Excellent, in-depth article about things to consider when developing Spring Boot applications for Kubernetes environment. [odedia's corner via Aggregater Linklog]

Permalink | From 07 November 2022 to 13 November 2022 | Last updated on: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 18:43:40 GMT

Week 44, year 2022

• Exploring Mastodon - I've been a heavy user of Twitter over the last decade, and while Musk's purchase of Twitter hasn't got me running for the exit, it has prompted me to take a look at possible alternatives should Twitter change into something no longer worthwhile for me. The obvious alternative is for me to explore the fediverse with a Mastodon account. As I explore using Mastodon, I'll make some notes here so that others can learn from my explorations. [Martin Fowler]
• Twitter feed now cross-posts to Mastodon - One of the main things I wanted to do with Mastodon was to replicate my twitter feed there, so that folks who would rather follow me on Mastodon could get everything. To do this, I used moa. party. You have to give it credentials to access both your Twitter and Mastodon feeds, which is a little worrisome, but my Mastodon-aware colleagues have used it without problems. It allows cross-posting in either or both directions, but I've set it up to just go from Twitter to Mastodon. It's pretty simple and seems to be working. [Martin Fowler]
• An appeal to Americans who aren't inclined to vote in the midterm elections - In the United States, we have midterm elections coming up. Many people aren't interested in politics, or feel there is nobody worthwhile to vote for. If you're an American inclined to skip voting in these midterms, I'd appreciate it if you read my appeal. [Martin Fowler]
• Never Lose Data Again - Event Sourcing to the Rescue! - Relational databases are not losing data. They’re robust, consistent and secure! Are they? Too often, we mix technical and logical concepts… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]

Permalink | From 31 October 2022 to 06 November 2022 | Last updated on: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 22:08:23 GMT

Week 43, year 2022

• The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers - There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer. Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services. Vertical separation would be new to the cloud industry. Is it a good idea? Would it actually solve any problems? My answers are no and no, but probably not for the reasons you think. Let's dive in. Here are a few useful resources for exploring this argument: Maintaining monopolies with the cloud by Cory Doctorow. [High Scalability]
• Generic types are for arguments, specific types are for return values - Today, we’ll discuss the following guideline: you should use the most generic types possible for arguments and the most specific types possible for return values. [Enterprise Craftsmanship]
• How Postgres sequences issues can impact your messaging guarantees - Big picture descriptions and overall explanations are great. They help us to understand the foundations of new ideas and then find the place… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]

Permalink | From 24 October 2022 to 30 October 2022 | Last updated on: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 23:19:25 GMT

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