Week 25, year 2024

Why Event Sourcing? Part 3 - The Core Benefits of Event Sourcing - This is the final part of a 3 part series on "Why Event Sourcing". Find Part 1 here and Part 2 here.. If you want to be notified, sign up to our newsletter! If you're totally new to Event Sourcing, it might be a good idea to start here with our Beginner's Guide. [Event Store blog]
How to automatically setup pgAdmin with a Docker database - Developer experience is a phrase repeated in multiple ways. In our industry, we finally realised how important it is to reduce the cognitive… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]
Coupling and Control Flow in Distributed Systems - Dissecting a buzzword takes more than a single blog post. Here's the start of a new blog series. [The Architect Elevator]
Old Books that Every Architect Should Read - If architecture is timeless, so should be the books about it. Here's a book list with some classics. [The Architect Elevator]

Permalink | From 17 June 2024 to 23 June 2024 | Last updated on: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:37:06 GMT

Week 24, year 2024

Event Store At KCDC 2024 - Event Store is looking forward to returning to the Kansas City Developer Conference as a gold sponsor! [Event Store blog]
Setting up NGINX load balancer for .NET WebApi - “Just put the load balancer in front of it, and call it a day”. But is it really that simple? Was it ever “just do XYZ?“. I was preparing a… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]

Permalink | From 10 June 2024 to 16 June 2024 | Last updated on: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:06:35 GMT

Week 23, year 2024

Testing server calls in generated HTML - Matteo Vaccari completes his article on testing template-generated HTML, by looking at how to use TDD with pages that makecalls to the server. [Martin Fowler]
Event Store at DDDEU 2024 - Event Store was thrilled to have the opportunity to sponsor another fantastic DDD Foundations and DDDEU event! Here's a wrap-up of our time at the event. [Event Store blog]
AxonIQ Console Guide: Maximize Axon-Based App Performance - Introduction As Java developers, we often face the challenge of finding the right tool for the job. When creating massively scalable microservices applications, we definitely don’t want to build both the application and the tools to monitor it. [AxonIQ Blog]
Combining the To-Do List and the Passage Of Time patterns for resilient business workflows - Managing processes is non-trivial. I have written about it in multiple posts and told you the horror story of the case that should have… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]

Permalink | From 03 June 2024 to 09 June 2024 | Last updated on: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:19:26 GMT

Week 22, year 2024

Parameterizing HTML template tests - Testing templates for generating HTML leads to tests that are very similar. Matteo Vaccari wisely likes to separate the common elements of tests from those that vary. He continues his article to show how he does this by parameterizing the tests. The resulting tests are easier to write, and more importantly, faster to understand and modify. [Martin Fowler]
Prefetching in Single-Page Applications - Juntao Qiu's completes his set of data fetching patterns for single-page applications. Prefetching involves fetching data before it's called for in the application flow. Although this can mean data is fetched unnecessarily, it reduces latency should the data be needed. [Martin Fowler]
Testing the behavior of generated HTML - In the story so far, Matteo Vaccari has shown how to test the behaviour of the HTML templates, by checking the structure of the generated HTML. That's good, but what if we want to test the behavior of the HTML itself, plus any CSS and JavaScript it may use? [Martin Fowler]
Let's build the worst Event Sourcing system! - Everyone likes to talk about best practices. I went the other way around and gathered all the worst practices on how to build the worst… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]

Permalink | From 27 May 2024 to 02 June 2024 | Last updated on: Sat, 1 Jun 2024 22:06:34 GMT

Week 21, year 2024

Using markup for fallbacks when fetching data - Juntao Qiu's next data fetching pattern looks at how to specify fallback behavior using markup. This allows developers to pull such declarations out of the JavaScript components and into the markup they use while laying out the rest of the page. Juntao's React example shows how this works with the Suspense element, with a similar approach in vue.js. [Martin Fowler]
Test-Driving HTML Templates - When building a server-side rendered web application, it's valuable to test the HTML that's generated through templates. While these can be tested through end-to-end tests running in the browser, such tests are slow and more work to maintain than unit tests. My colleagueMatteo Vaccari has written an article on how to use TDD to test drive these templates using xunit-style tools which can be run easily from the command line or as part of build scripts. In this first installment Matteo describes how such tests can check the generated HTML for validity, with examples in Java and Go. [Martin Fowler]
A short note on how I use and render footnotes - Last week I added a small feature to this website, changing the way it renders footnotes. That prompted me to write this quick note about how I use footnotes, and how that influences the best way to render them. [Martin Fowler]
Testing the contents of generated HTML - Matteo Vaccari continues his testing of template-generated HTML by describing tests for the contents of that HTML. He shows how to gradually build up the template, using Test-Driven Development in Go and Java. [Martin Fowler]
Code Splitting in Single-Page Applications - Single-Page Applications often require a lot of code to be downloaded to the browser, which can delay a page's initial appearance. Juntao Qiu's next pattern, Code Splitting, describes how this code can be divided up, so that modules are only loaded if they are going to be needed, and the dangers of doing so. [Martin Fowler]
Why you should batch message processing and how to do it with .NET AsyncEnumerable - AsyncEnumerable is a sneaky abstraction. It allows simplified and performant usage for iterating on pull-based and push-based sources. “Pull… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]
The Economics of Writing Technical Books - Yes, you can make money writing books. But never do it for that. [The Architect Elevator]

Permalink | From 20 May 2024 to 26 May 2024 | Last updated on: Thu, 30 May 2024 14:06:36 GMT

Week 20, year 2024

EventStoreDB Implementation With Event Sourcing - In this article we cover a full end-to-end example, from Event Storming, to creating Event Sourcing and architecture diagrams to implementation in Python. [Event Store blog]
Data Fetching Patterns in Single-Page Applications - Juntao Qiu is a thoughtful front-end developer experienced with the React programming environment. He's contributed a couple of useful articles to this site, describing helpful patterns for front-end programming. In this article he describes patterns for how single-page applications fetch data. This first installment describes how asynchronous queries can be wrapped in a handler to provide information about the state of the query. [Martin Fowler]
Parallel Data Fetching - The second pattern in Juntao Qiu's series on data fetching is on how to avoid the dreaded Request Waterfall. Parallel Data Fetching queries multiple sources in parallel, so that the latency of the overall fetch is largest of the queries rather than the sum of them. [Martin Fowler]
Docker Compose Profiles, one the most useful and underrated features - Erik Shafer asked me on the Emmett Discord if I could provide a sample of how to run the WebApi application using Emmett. Of course, I said… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]
Ford vs. Ferrari vs. Porsche - Cultural lessons from a racing movie. [The Architect Elevator]

Permalink | From 13 May 2024 to 19 May 2024 | Last updated on: Sun, 19 May 2024 14:06:34 GMT

Week 19, year 2024

How to write a left-fold streams collector in Java - Last week, we covered the latest improvements to Java 22 around pattern matching and records. They enable explicit business logic modelling… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]
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Permalink | From 06 May 2024 to 12 May 2024 | Last updated on: Sun, 12 May 2024 22:06:34 GMT