Introducing LiteFS
– fly.io
The good people at Fly.io have but together a way to use SQLite in a distributed way.
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Lost in transaction
Bernd Ruecker talks about how determine the right level of consistency in distributed applications.
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Patterns for Decoupling in Distributed Systems
On his blog, Mathias Verraes started a series of posts on patterns for decoupling in distributed systems. I'll link to just one of the posts here, but they're all worth your time.
The mind switch is to think of the passage of time as just another Domain Event, exactly like all the other events. After all, if we define a Domain Event as a granular point in time where something happened that is relevant to the business, then certainly the next business day, month, or quarter, is extremely relevant.
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Eventual consistency illustrated
lol what a great definition of 'eventual consistency' pic.twitter.com/dUy6xq0UrW
— your friend myk (@mykola) March 1, 2019
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Going deep on UUIDs and ULIDs
Over at the Honeybadger blog, Starr Horne wrote an interesting article on the different types of UUIDs and ULIDs.
UUIDs are and will continue to be the standard. They've been around forever, and libraries are available in every language imaginable. However, new approaches are worth considering, especially as we enter a world that's increasingly run by distributed systems. New unique-id approaches may help us solve problems that weren't prevalent at the publication of RFC4122.
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Event Sourcing: what it is and why it's awesome
If you haven't heard about event sourcing or are unsure about what it is, Barry O Sullivan has got you covered. Recently he wrote up a blogpost that explains it very clearly.
Event Sourcing (ES) is opposite of this. Instead of focussing on current state, you focus on the changes that have occurred over time. It is the practice of modelling your system as a sequence of events. ... It solves all the big problems our team has faced when building large scale distributed business software. It allows us to talk to the business in their language, and it gives us the freedom to change and adapt the system with ease.
https://dev.to/barryosull/event-sourcing-what-it-is-and-why-its-awesome