“Are you command handling idempotent?” Sounds like a douchebag question to ask. Actually, that’s not a question but a statement that we want… | Continue reading

**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… | Continue reading

I don’t feel like an authority or an expert. I prefer to think about myself as a practitioner. Our industry is filled with self-proclaimed… | Continue reading

In the previous article, I told what happened when Emmett and Pongo walked into a bar. In other words, I announced that you can now do Event… | Continue reading

Flexibility or Consistency? Why not have both? Wouldn’t it be great to have MongoDB flexible schema and PostgreSQL consistency? MongoDB is a… | Continue reading

Developer experience is a phrase repeated in multiple ways. In our industry, we finally realised how important it is to reduce the cognitive… | Continue reading

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… | Continue reading

AsyncEnumerable is a sneaky abstraction. It allows simplified and performant usage for iterating on pull-based and push-based sources. “Pull… | Continue reading

Last week, we covered the latest improvements to Java 22 around pattern matching and records. They enable explicit business logic modelling… | Continue reading

Testcontainers became a popular way of setting up dependencies for integration testing. They’re not ideal, as configuring them to run your… | Continue reading

I’m writing this article on Friday, and it’s about time to have some fun. As this is a programming blog, let’s have some fun coding. Let’s… | Continue reading

Folks, I’d like to inform you that I’m no longer a Marten maintainer. As you know, sometimes in the project’s lifetime, there’s a moment… | Continue reading

Event Sourcing is a pattern that is quickly gaining popularity. Many companies see the advantages it brings, e.g. business focus and keeping… | Continue reading

Being busy is not something we strive for; it’s an axiom. Social media are not helping; our whole lives are on the plate. And we’re chefs… | Continue reading

No one knows who invented Event Sourcing. I overheard that Hammurabi did. Why? Because he standardised the first set of rules of accounting… | Continue reading

Putting the career bets is not easy; I made boring and pragmatic choices for most of my career. They took me far. Yet, I always felt that… | Continue reading

You’re reading much more code than you’re writing. Readability is a highly subjective term. That’s probably why some call what we’re doing… | Continue reading

Cynefin’s framework states that we have four types of decision-making contexts (or domains): clear, complicated, complex, and chaotic. They… | Continue reading

When you’re angry, take a breath, take your time and then talk. So I did after I tested .NET Aspire yesteday. I hoped it could be a decent… | Continue reading

I’m feeling like a surgeon in recent days. Who knew that changing the connection management would be a delicate thing to do? I did, but it’s… | Continue reading

The law to be forgotten and immutable data sounds like fire and water. How to remove data if you’re building an event-driven system based on… | Continue reading

This year, we had the fifth anniversary of the Developers’ Doomsday. In 2018, on the 25th of May, the European General Data Protection… | Continue reading

**I used to play football. I wasn’t talented, but still, I loved it. Football is a team sport, and playing is not the only essential part of… | Continue reading

One of the things that we’re learning too late in the Event-Driven approach is that we should have been splitting events into internal and… | Continue reading