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Modeling Uncertainty with Reactive DDD
Vaughn Vernon has written several books on DDD and reactive messaging patterns, and has found that the nature of distributed systems means you must deal with uncertainty. How to respond to a missing message, or a message that is received twice, should be a business decision, and therefore must be part of the domain model.
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Author Q&A Continuous Digital and Project Myopia
Allan Kelly has recently released two complimentary books which address ways of working in modern digital businesses. “Continuous Digital” addresses the way organisations need to structure themselves when “every business is a digital business”. “Project Myopia” explores more of the underlying theory of #NoProjects and explains why the continuous culture is so important.
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DevOps for the Modern Enterprise Book Review and Q&A with Mirco Hering
InfoQ reviewed Mirco Hering's "DevOps for the Modern Enterprise" book and reached out to the author for more insights on his experience, learnings and obstacles with transformations at large scale.
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The DDD Do-Over
Jimmy Bogard had a rare opportunity to do what many developers want after finishing a tough project -- a do-over. His team worked on two very similar projects, both using DDD. He discusses the lessons learned from the first project and how the team avoided common pitfalls and was more successful on their later project.
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Chaos Conf Q&A: The Benefits, Challenges and Practices of Chaos Engineering
This Q&A, from the upcoming Chaos Conf event that is running in San Francisco in September, examines the benefits and challenges of chaos engineering. The article also provides emerging good practice, and contains prerequisites, recommendations, and tips for getting started.
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How the TOGAF Standard Serves Enterprise Architecture
Any architect working with large enterprise systems has probably looked for guidance on how to manage the complexity and communicate with various stakeholders. This introductory overview of the TOGAF standard explains the structure of the framework, as well as discusses the benefits of using enterprise architecture to manage complex systems.
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Democratizing Stream Processing with Apache Kafka® and KSQL - Part 2
In this article, author Robin Moffatt shows how to use Apache Kafka and KSQL to build data integration and processing applications with the help of an e-commerce sample application. Three use cases discussed: customer operations, operational dashboard, and ad-hoc analytics.
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Refactoring to a Deeper Model
Paul Rayner uses a case study to demonstrate how refactoring your code can lead to a deeper understanding of your domain model. Through common code refactorings, combined with the implementation of patterns, the codebase became more cohesive and easier to reason about, reducing the time to perform some common tasks from weeks or months to just hours.
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Microservices in a Post-Kubernetes Era
How are microservices standing in the Kubernetes era? The microservice architecture is still the most popular architectural style for distributed systems. But Kubernetes and the cloud-native movement have redefined certain aspects of application design and development at scale.
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A Critique of Resizable Hash Tables: Riak Core & Random Slicing
This fall, Wallaroo Labs will be releasing a large new feature set to our distributed data stream processing framework, Wallaroo. One of the new features requires a size-adjustable, distributed data structure to support growing & shrinking of compute clusters. It might be a good idea to use a distributed hash table to support the new feature, but what distributed hash algorithm should we choose?
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Build a MySQL Spring Boot App Running on WildFly on an Azure VM
How to build a demo site that runs on the WildFly application platform and connects to a MySQL database in the cloud, on Microsoft Azure. The premise seems simple, but the implementation can be tricky, and there is limited documentation on how to set something like this up.
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The Argument for WCF Hosting in .NET Core
Should WCF Hosting be Supported in .NET Core? To a lot of people this seems like a strange question; the answer is obviously... yes? no? Well actually it is quite contentious with people on both sides of the issue fiercely arguing for their position. We’ll try to unpack the debate and explain the arguments on both sides.