Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More Foojay Podcast hits episode 100. No plan, no roadmap. It just happened. To mark the occasion, Frank turned the microphone around and invited other podcasters: Adam Bien (airhacks.fm), Jennifer Reif (Breaktime Tech Talks), Kadi McKean and Steve Pool (10xInsights), and Oumaima Zerouali (JCast). Same three questions for each: why did you …

Author: Geertjan Wielenga Original post on Foojay: Read More Once upon a time, applications managed their own data files. Every program hand-rolled its own locking, its own crash recovery, its own consistency guarantees. Every program did it badly, in its own unique way. Then the relational database arrived and made a deal with application developers: you declare what you want, …

Author: Vincent Vauban Original post on Foojay: Read More When Event-Driven Architecture Is Not the Right Choice Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) can help teams build scalable, loosely coupled and highly responsive distributed systems. Technologies such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar and cloud messaging platforms have made this architectural style increasingly popular. However, EDA also introduces significant complexity. Asynchronous communication requires teams …