Event Sourcing: Store What Happened, Not What Is
Most systems store the present tense. A row in a table holds the current balance, the current status, the current address. When something changes,…
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Backpressure: The Honest Answer to a Fast Producer and a Slow Consumer
Every streaming system has a fast end and a slow end. A producer reads from a socket, a database, a sensor, another service. A…
Beyond REST: The Schema Is the Contract
Two services agree on bare JSON over HTTP, with no schema governing it. That is not a contract. That is a hope. A bare…
Demystifying the Akka Actor Model
What's an actor model? The actor model in computer science is a mathematical model of concurrent computation that treats "actors" as the universal primitives…