• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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