Architecture Weekly #69 - 4th April 2022

Welcome to the new week.

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I’m delighted that the Event Sourcing Live conference released the video with my talk last Friday: Let’s build the worst Event Sourcing system!. That’s one of the most important talks I gave recently. I’m explaining the differences between Event Sourcing and Event Streaming. Those terms sound similar but bring totally different architectural consequences. Talk is about a severe and essential split, but it’s explained in a pretty hilarious way. Feedback is more than welcome!

Derek Comartin also explained another fundamental split in his video:

• Derek Comartin - RPC vs Messaging: When to use which?

It’s always worth getting back to basics. I haven’t started to read RFCs right from the start of my career. When I did it, they appeared to be written quite often in a readable and approachable language. Going through them may seem like a rabbit hole, but you can always learn something new, for instance, how to return errors from HTTP:

• IETF - Problem Details for HTTP APIs RFC

If you like digging in the past, check the ArsTechnica article about Wolfenstein 3D secrets revealed by John Romero in a lengthy post-mortem chat.

Another, not precisely about programming, but beneficial information is that Google Docs is getting more Markdown support.

Check also other links!

Cheers!
Oskar

Architecture

• Derek Comartin - RPC vs Messaging: When to use which?

• Microsoft - Design Patterns - Priority Queue Pattern

• Pablo Martinez - Hexagonal Architecture, there are always two sides to every story

• Nick Tune - Architecture & DDD Kata: Online Car Dealership

Distributed Systems

• Natan Silnitsky - Migrating to a Multi-Cluster Managed Kafka with 0 Downtime

• Distributed Systems - Kafka Connect Deep Dive – Error Handling and Dead Letter Queues

API

• IETF - Problem Details for HTTP APIs RFC

DevOps

• CTOP - Concise commandline monitoring for containers

Frontend

• Nir Ben-Yair - Headless components in React and why I stopped using a UI library for our design system

Azure

• Microsoft DevBlogs - Ordering Messages in Azure Service Bus

• Andrei Dzimchuk - Implementing a priority queue on Microsoft Azure

Java

• Luke Sikina - Spring Boot + Junit 5 + Testcontainers

.NET

• Martin Costello - xunit-logging - Logging extensions for xunit

• Logicality.io - platform-libs - A variety of libs, managed as a mono repo.

• Meysam Hadeli - Caching pipeline behavior with MediatR

• Jimmy Bogard - Building NServiceBus Metrics with OpenTelemetry and System.Diagnostics.Metrics

Tools

• The Verge - Google Docs is getting more Markdown support

Coding Life

• Octopus - Moonlighting

Management

• Kent Beck - Dimensions of Power

• Trond Hjorteland - Autonomy across the enterprise

Security

• Tanya Janca - Why can’t I get over log4j?

• BleepingComputer - Fake Trezor data breach emails used to steal cryptocurrency wallets

Industry

• BBC - Are tech companies removing evidence of war crimes?

Trivia

• IEEE Spectrum - The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

• ArsTechnica - Wolfenstein 3D secrets revealed by John Romero in lengthy post-mortem chat

• Killed by Microsoft