My next project with EventCatalog is now live ❤️ Introducing EventCatalog Studio. A design tool that focuses on architecture primitives, rather than boxes and lines. It's early days, and I can't to learn from folks and make the project better for everyone. eventcatalog.studio

Do we need another diagram tool? Maybe not… But I think we can do better My thoughts on the pitfalls of diagram tools today, the value lost, and why we can do better. boyney123.substack.com/p/do-we-need...

I'm considering a new talk next year. Focused on my journey and lessons learnt building sustainable open source project. Thoughts? Useful? Missing anything? Love your feedback

Many folks building event-driven architectures, end up in some level of chaos. I wrote up some quick thoughts here, and some resources and actions you can do today to help you. Hope it can help! boyney123.substack.com/p/how-to-sto...

I've been reflecting on event-driven architecture, problems in the eco-system and what needs to change. Tldr; It's a mess, but we can do better 🚀 boyney123.substack.com/p/event-driv...

August brought a welcome change of pace as many took well-deserved summer breaks ❤️ While things were quieter overall, I stayed focused on two key areas: advancing EventCatalog Studio and strengthening the core platform. www.eventcatalog.dev/blog/eventca...

Last summer break done👍 Time to refocus, and nail Q4 this year. Plans ⭐️ Launch EventCatalog Studio ⭐️ Talks in conferences ⭐️ Reach 10k MMR through FOSS ⭐️ More integrations for EventCatalog ⭐️ xRegistry Support ⭐️ Make EventCatalog even better ❤️ Let's GO!

EventCatalog now supports webrtc channels ❤️ Focusing on architecture and messaging primitives allows us to build tools that can help many architecture types, patterns, and various different channels. Hopefully it helps!

Designing architectures? Capture decisions as you design — and reference your diagrams right in your docs. With EventCatalog Studio, just mention a database, event, or service, and it links automatically. Small feature. Huge impact. 🤩

Seems ambitious, but fuck it. I think we can do better, and I'm building something I believe can help ❤️

Export to Prompt 💡 1. Design some architecture 2. Export design to LLM prompt (into Mermaid) 3. Use Prompt in LLM. Pretty fun!

Build a custom Astro integration that listens for EventCatalog Studio files (.ecstudio) and refreshes your docs ❤️ Hot reloading all the way!

Storing architecture decisions in Git is great—but we can do better. I’m building a visual editor powered by Git: ✅ Own your data ✅ Version & diff ✅ Add Figma-style comments ✅ Run locally Collaborate, document, even generate code. Here’s a quick demo 👇

Another month done ✔️ Here are a bunch of fixes, features we added to EventCatalog to help you all document, govern and discover your architecture. www.eventcatalog.dev/blog/eventca...

Finding the right service, owner, or message in a distributed system shouldn’t be a pain. I just rebuilt EventCatalog’s search to help orgs quickly filter & find the exact resources they need—faster onboarding, better collaboration, less guesswork. www.eventcatalog.dev/blog/custom-...

I wanted to improve the search on EventCatalog. Soon you will be able to filter by domain, service, messages, teams, AsyncAPI and OpenAPI files. Hopefully helping you find what you need, faster!

Fetching schemas at runtime, keeping your docs in sync with your schemas..... I added a new component to EventCatalog that let's you pull in schemas at runtime to display them to your teams, whilst keeping your docs up to date. More here: www.eventcatalog.dev/blog/remote-...

You can now embed Entity Maps in your docs — with filters to show only the entities you care about 👀 Perfect for making complex domains easier to understand. Big thanks to simonwfarrow for the contribution! 🙌 Docs: www.eventcatalog.dev/docs/develop... Demo: demo.eventcatalog.dev/docs/domains...

This is fun. I'm working on raising events when certain things happen in folks architecture documentation. Here a producer has changed a contract. EventCatalog knows the consumers, and notifies them of changes before they happen. Hopefully can help you catch issues 🙏

🚀 EventCatalog SDK v2.6.8 is live! This release brings new capabilities that make building automation around EventCatalog even easier: 🔍 You can now: ⭐️ Get producers and consumers for a given schema ⭐️ Get producers/consumers of a specific message

Working on webhooks for EventCatalog. You will be able to listen to events you are interested in, setup custom webhooks (e.g slack), and get notified when things are happening. This example, shows a new team starting to consume an event you own with a message directly in your slack channel.

🚨 Architects & platform engineers working on event-driven systems: Struggling with schema sprawl, unclear ownership, or blocking devs with governance? I’m talking to 10 folks to learn what’s working (or not). No pitch — just curious. DM or comment if that’s you ❤️

The Ubiquitous Language Explorer in EventCatalog just got an upgrade ❤️ You can now view all your subdomain terms in one place — with duplicate terms highlighted for clarity. Everything is powered by markdown. Just write, tag, and explore. 🚀 Demo: demo.eventcatalog.dev/docs/domains...

Back from holiday this week ☀️, well rested break. Ready to jump back into open source and EventCatalog 🚀 Also come back to a new paying customer for EventCatalog ❤️, my ambitious goal by the end of the year is to hire my first employee. Let's see how that goes! 🤞, all bootstrapped!

You can now lint your @event_catalog documentation, helping you catch errors faster. www.eventcatalog.dev/blog/eventca...

Super cool! ❤️

🚀 Introducing Entity Maps in EventCatalog Understanding entity relationships in your domain model shouldn't require detective work. That's why we've built Entity Maps — a powerful new visualization feature that brings clarity to your domain architecture ❤️ www.eventcatalog.dev/blog/introdu...

I'm 40 in 2 years time 😅, been in tech for about 20 years... Creating something, selling it, trying to make a business online has taught me more in the last year than the past 5.... If you ever want to be vulnerable, exposed but learn SHIT loads, I can highly recommend it

Working on a new visualizer component, that will you visualize and embed your schemas/entities in EventCatalog like this 👇 Can hopefully help you tell a story with your data/models and how they all relate to each other. All driven by markdown ❤️

EventCatalog let's you document entities (from DDD). I'm exploring a visualizer for them in EventCatalog. Is this something that could be useful for folks?

End of month = What's new in EventCatalog. June has been a wild month, we doubled our MMR, got a bunch of new customers (+2 enterprise), and the project is 100% sustainable. Super grateful for folks trying it out, finding value is trusting the project 🙏💙 www.eventcatalog.dev/blog/eventca...

For those using EventCatalog and documenting many different environments (e.g Dev, Test, Prod), you can now configure environments in your configuration file. Now live in EventCatalog 2.48.2 ❤️ www.eventcatalog.dev/docs/api/con...

Today I woke up to another enterprise customer over the line for EventCatalog ❤️ I'm so happy that the project is helping teams save time and get more value from their architecture. So much more to do, but small continuous steps is the key 🙏

🚀 New in EventCatalog: Snippets Stop duplicating content. Reuse markdown & variables across your docs. Define once, use anywhere — domains, services, events. Keep things DRY & maintainable ❤️ www.eventcatalog.dev/docs/develop...

I'm thinking about adding `Database` resource into EventCatalog. This will let you visualize and document databases in EventCatalog. Also be able to model things like change data capture patterns and visualize these too. github.com/event-catalo...

I love markdown/MDX it's so powerful. You can now use plantuml code blocks in @event_catalog to render any plantuml diagram ❤️, super fun!

@event_catalog 2.45.2 is now out ❤️ You can now expand/collapse your JSON schemas in EventCatalog easier, and also quickly search for properties on them. Hopefully helps a few of you with large schemas. Quick demo here 👇

What a way to wrap up Friday — another new paying customer for EventCatalog! ❤️ That feeling when someone pays for software you built? It never gets old. It validates the idea, fuels your confidence, and reminds you why you started. Feeling incredibly grateful right now 🙏🚀

A year ago, I took the leap to solo bootstrap a project I’m deeply passionate about. Living off savings, chasing a dream — it’s been scary at times, but incredibly rewarding 💙 Today, I signed an enterprise contract for EventCatalog. So excited for what’s ahead! 🚀

Many folks are using events to communicate between domains. And it can be hard to keep track of all this... I just added a Domain integration map into @event_catalog that will visualize this for you ❤️

I've been wanting to add the ability to walk through "Flows" in EventCatalog for awhile now. With Claude code, it was implemented in 10minutes.... crazy! This feature let's you walk through business workflows, step by step in EventCatalog. Just a small quality of life improvement.

I've been working on RBAC for EventCatalog, few folks have asked for it. This let's you lock pages down based on roles/groups from your auth provider. www.eventcatalog.dev/docs/develop...

EventCatalog 2.44.1 is now out. This gives you the ability to quick find the information you want through the visualizer, hopefully helping some of you that have very large visuals/catalogs. Hope it helps! Quick demo to show you how it works 👇

Last week I added Auth into EventCatalog (feature many were asking for), this supported Auth0, GitHub, Azure AD, Okta. I've just released EventCatalog 2.43.3, which includes Google Login support. Hope it helps 🚀 www.eventcatalog.dev/docs/develop...

Authentication and SSR (Server side rendering) have been added to EventCatalog. This allows you to protect your EventCatalog, and render large catalogs on the server, helping you save build time etc. Hope it helps! www.eventcatalog.dev/blog/authent...

Just landed another paying customer for EventCatalog That’s three so far in June ❤️ Feels amazing to see open source sustainability in action. I'm still learning every day, but this journey is just getting started!

Auth finally coming to EventCatalog hopefully this week ❤️ This will let you integrate with your own providers (OpenID, SAML etc).

Just come across this post "The Ultimate Survival guide to event schema evolution". This is a great post, some good points highlighted. Kudos to the authors, some great insights 👏 javarevisited.substack.com/p/the-ultima...

TIL, Cursor supports Deeplinks A nice handy URL that will install MCP directly into cursor with one click, making it easier to get setup. docs.cursor.com/deeplinks

Over the past 8 years I've been diving super deep into event-driven architecture and governance. I decided to start offering workshops for folks on their journey and struggle with discoverability and documentation. Let me know if you would find any useful! www.eventcatalog.dev/workshops