Hi, the only constant in the world is change. Seven months ago, I made a big change and made the Architecture Weekly a paid newsletter. Now, I have decided to make it fully free.
What’s more, I made all past content available for free! You can read all past articles now:
Queuing, Backpressure, Single Writer and other useful patterns for managing concurrency
Talk is cheap, show me the numbers! Benchmarking and beyond!
Using S3 but not the way you expected. S3 as strongly consistent event store
Show me the money! Practically navigating the Cloud Costs Complexity
When Logs and metrics are not enough: Discovering Modern Observability
Why to measure and make our system observable? How to reason on chaotic world
Deduplication in Distributed Systems: Myths, Realities, and Practical Solutions
The Write-Ahead Log: The underrated Reliability Foundation for Databases and Distributed systems
On getting the meaningful discussions, and why that's important
Thoughts on Platforms, Core Teams, DORA Report and all that jazz
Understanding Kafka's Consumer Protocol: A Deep Dive into How Consumers Talk to Brokers
Defining Your Paranoia Level: Navigating Change Without the Overkill
How does Kafka know what was the last message it processed? Deep dive into Offset Tracking
And watch all past webinars:
#2 - Keep your streams short! Or how to model Event-Sourced systems efficiently
#6 - Alexey Zimarev - You don't need an Event Sourcing framework. Or do you?
#7 - Design and test Event-Driven projections and read models
#9 - Radek Maziarka - Modularization with Event Storming Process Level
#11 - Maciej "MJ" Jędrzejewski - Evolutionary Architecture: The What. The Why. The How.
#12 - Jeremy D. Miller: Simplify your architecture with Wolverine
#14 - Mateusz Jendza - Why Verified Credentials is the Future of Digital Identity!
#15 - Mário Bittencourt: Leveraging BPMN for Seamless Team Collaboration in Software Development
#16 - Papers We Love #1 - Sagas (Hector Garcia-Molina, Kenneth Salem)
#18 - Andrea Magnorsky: Introducing Bytesize Architecture Sessions!
#20 - Papers We Love #2 - How do committees invent? (Melvin E. Conway)
#21 - Michael Drogalis: Building the product on your own terms
#23 - Gojko Adzic on designing product development experiments with Lizard Optimization
#24 - Frontent Architecture, Backend Architecture or just Architecture? With Tomasz Ducin
#25 - Applying Observability: From Strategy to Practice with Hazel Weakly
#26 - React Query: A solution for Frontend State Management challenges? With Tomasz Ducin
#27 - Documenting Event-Driven Architecture with EventCatalog and David Boyne
I also made them available on my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@event-driven. So click subscribe, bell and all that stuff!
I believe that all of that gives you more content than a lot of books or paid online courses.
Why did I do it? Am I mad? What’s the catch?
In past years, I delivered many unique materials. I also increased the number of subscribers, both paid and regular ones. Preparing the type of content that I try to deliver each week quality content, takes time and focus.
I still want to do that and produce new articles, but I decrease the pressure to do full-length and deep dives each week—sometimes even on weekends. And I’m not sure how about you, but I prefer to spend weekends with my family.
The number of paid subscribers grew, but still insufficient to fully focus on Architecture Weekly. That’s fine, as I have other work, such as consultancy and training, open source work, and contracts.
I believe that making the Architecture Weekly free newsletter should free some time for me, reduce the pressure I put on myself and let me focus on other stuff.
I still plan to deliver similar content as I did, keeping the weekly cadence, maybe in a slightly different form, or changing it to every other week later on. We’ll see.
So if you worry, don’t. I don’t plan to shut it down, but do it more for fun than profit. Quality should still be here, but maybe a bit lightweight form.
I would appreciate it if you shared the news with your friends, so they could also benefit from those free materials. I believe they’re worth it.
What are your thoughts?
Cheers!
Oskar
Wow, I asked my company to buy the subscription. Thanks a lot!
Thanks for your content, it's really interesting.