• What are the security certifications Event Store has achieved? - Event Store was recently awarded ISO 27001:2013 certification and SOC 2 Type 1 attestation from the external auditing company A-LIGN. Team members at Event Store have been working towards these achievements for some time, and are now delighted to have achieved this. The previous blog posts by Andrés Méndez Barco explain Event Store’s journey to certification, but what are these accreditations, and why do we want them? [Event Store blog]
• “I'm not interested in politics” is not actual anymore - War. War never changes… In IT, we’re living in a bubble. Compared to others we have good working conditions. We learned to complain about… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]

Permalink | From 28 February 2022 to 06 March 2022 | Last updated on: Wed, 2 Mar 2022 14:01:14 GMT

• 15 tips on how to run meetings effectively - It’s always worth talking things through! But is it worth meeting? During my career, I have seen many projects and companies where the… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]
• Loss Aversion Heuristics - When we make decisions, we often do not explore options that have a risk of loss, even if that loss is balanced out by potential gains. I joined João Rosa’s “Software Crafts” podcast to talk about 3 heuristics that help you overcome that bias. [Mathias Verraes]
• Design & Reality (VirtualDDD presentation) - In this talk, I discuss the ideas previously presented in the articles “Design and Reality” and “Models and Metaphors” Abstract: Our models should be driven by the domain, but not constrained by what domain experts tell us. After all, the domain language is messy, organic, ambiguous, social, incomplete, and if it has any intentional design to it at all, it’s not designed to be turned into software. Modelling is more than capturing requirements, it’s the opportunity to create novel concepts. Video Podcast Resources VirtualDDD [Mathias Verraes]
• Why AxonIQ Cloud? - AxonIQ Cloud Axon Server - part of the Axon Platform is our zero-configuration, purpose-built Event Store and Message Bus. AxonIQ Cloud delivers Axon Server as a hosted service and abstracts away set up, tuning, patching, and managing high-performance Axon Server Clusters. AxonIQ Cloud enables Developers/Infrastructure Teams to run Axon Server in multiple environments without the hassle and overhead of managing the underlying infrastructure, licenses, and SLAs. [Blog]

Permalink | From 21 February 2022 to 27 February 2022 | Last updated on: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 18:36:45 GMT

• NServiceBus.Extensions.Diagnostics 2.0 Released - Last week I pushed out the 2.0 release of NServiceBus.Extensions.Diagnostics package. [Jimmy Bogard]
• Activity Enrichment in ASP.NET Core 6.0 - Waaaaay back in the ASP.NET Core 3.1 days, I wrote about increasing the cardinality of traces using Tags and Baggage. You could write code in your controllers, filters, or application code to be able to add custom information to traces to help find these traces more effectively: [HttpGet] [Jimmy Bogard]
• Immutable Value Objects are simpler and more useful than you think! - I love proper typing. But what does that even mean? I could say that this is a types’ structure defined in a self-explanatory way. But that… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]
• Collections and Primitive Obsession - Does the primitive obsession anti-pattern apply to collections? In other words, should you introduce a custom class for a collection? [Enterprise Craftsmanship]

Permalink | From 14 February 2022 to 20 February 2022 | Last updated on: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 22:01:15 GMT

• The Humble Dialog Box - A 2002 article by Michael Feathers. This article introduced the idea of dealing with a hard-to-test GUI behavior by minimizing the behavior within the GUI element, moving as much as possible to a separate object that’s easier to test. This idea was generalized into the Humble Object pattern. The pdf of this article is here, but if you’re wish to share a link, please link to this page instead, as that pdf link may not be stable and this page allows us to more easily enhance this resource later. [Martin Fowler]
• Communicating the technical vision of an infrastructure platform - The next installment of Poppy Rowse and Chris Shepherd's article on infrastructure platforms looks how to communicate the technical vision of platform and how to understand the platform from the users' point of view. [Martin Fowler]
• Diagnosing and Fixing MediatR Container Issues - An issue I see come up quite frequently, much to the chagrin of DI container maintainers, are problems of complex generics edge cases and how they come up in MediatR. In fact, more than one container author has demanded some kind of recompense for the questions received and issues opened [Jimmy Bogard]
• Using the Four Key Metrics to assess an infrastructure platform - Poppy Rowse and Chris Shepherd complete their article on infrastructure platforms with a warning on over-complicating a platform and a section on how to use the Four Key Metrics to assess a platform's success. [Martin Fowler]
• How to quickly scale a legacy monolith? - Working with a legacy monolith is not easy. For years we learned how to tame that beast gently. We nurtured it and tried not to break it. We… [Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz]

Permalink | From 07 February 2022 to 13 February 2022 | Last updated on: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 23:19:31 GMT