With more and more open source projects switching to some sort of commercial licensing model with discounts for small business and community projects, the question keeps coming up: is a 100% discount the same as "free"? So I made a video about it. What do you think? www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpI8...

Seriously folks - watch this - it is very good. Evolving event driven systems is certainly non trivial and should be considered up-front. All the harder when you expose your events and have either an explicit or implicit contract to support the prior versions.

This talk is a must-watch for people in the Event-Driven space. I saw @noctovis.bsky.social giving it live at this year's DDDEU, and I truly believe that she nailed the versioning topic 👇🙂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCb...

Community highlights ✨ - @thisismissem.social Node.js LGBTQIA+ Stories - @noctovis.bsky.social NDC Oslo Keynote - @literat.dev tsc --traceResolution - @danielpza.xyz Type your MongoDB collections

We ended up talking about the underestimated hard challenges of distributed systems and API versioning. Thank you Laïla Bougriâ @noctovis.bsky.social for reappearing on #thecloudshow (If You who read want to be the next STAR of the Cloud Show, reach out!) www.youtube.com/live/xhgyqZL...

Last talk of @eventcentric.bsky.social by @jameseastham.co.uk telling us how we maintain a reliable event-driven systems 🎉

Heading to @eventcentric.bsky.social for two days of great talks, looking forward to talk with @noctovis.bsky.social about event versioning and @oskardudycz.bsky.social about Event Sourcing 😊

It was a fantastic keynote! 🤘

🚀 NDC Oslo is officially on its way! Laila Bougria @noctovis.bsky.social kicked us off this morning with a fantastic #keynote. Come join us! #NDCOslo ndcoslo.com

Wow! @noctovis.bsky.social is all the talk today around #NDCoslo! Her #keynote this morning was incredibly impactful to the industry and everyone is talking about it at @ndcconferences.com. Plus, peekaboo KITTY! #AI #VibeCoding

Opening keynote with @noctovis.bsky.social at @ndcconferences.com at #NDCoslo this morning!

@noctovis.bsky.social absolutely smashing it in the @ndcconferences.com Oslo keynote. 🎉

Much needed reality check at @ndcconferences.com Oslo opening keynote. Laila Bougria (@noctovis.bsky.social) explaining coding vs production grade software and how AI fits into that I'm fangirling hard 😍😍

Fantastic keynote by @noctovis.bsky.social at @ndcconferences.com #ndcoslo

“Over reliance leads to disengagement” - @noctovis.bsky.social on the #keynote stage during #NDCoslo NDC Conferences

@noctovis.bsky.social bringing the truth. No AI tool is claiming they are perfect, they are all filled with disclaimers. Which means YOU are still responsible for the auto tab completed, AI generated big ball of mud that hits production. It's still your responsibility.

Yess queen, love a good self-quote 😍 "Prompting is AI's way of letting your know how sloppy your requirements are" @noctovis.bsky.social @ndcconferences.com

Messaging in distributed systems offers a range of valuable benefits. Don't miss @noctovis.bsky.social "Untangle complex business processes with message-based architectures" at #NDCOslo! ndcoslo.com/workshops/de...

Copilots are everywhere these days, and rightfully so! These tools are incredible at getting things done. Don't miss @noctovis.bsky.social "Keynote: CTRL+SHIFT+(BUILD) PAUSE" at #NDCOslo! ndcoslo.com/agenda/keyno...

Counting down!! #ndcoslo

Excited to be running a full-day workshop at #Techorama Belgium — Practical Clean Architecture and DDD with .NET! Learn how to build real-world, testable, maintainable systems from scratch. Still a few spots left! 👇 techorama.be/workshops/pr...

Event-Driven systems come with challenges: How do we version our events? Can we only publish events in an Event-Driven Architecture? How do we test all of this? These are a few of the questions I discussed with @noctovis.bsky.social in our latest episode of Satisfying Software!

The org has spent around $50k of dev time to save on a $5k software license. And that's not even counting the opportunity cost of the other things that could have been worked on. The hidden costs of "how hard could it be". bsky.app/profile/wild...

✨ Ready for some distributed systems reality checks? Join us as we host @nicovermeir.bsky.social to hear real-life adventures (and misadventures!) with Aspire & Dapr. It’s not just another shiny demo—it's raw, relatable tech talk! 🔥 www.meetup.com/net-usergrou... #DotNet #Aspire #Dapr

Our #18 most-watched talk features Udi Dahan with his keynote at Event Sourcing 2020. Dive in at buff.ly/4b0hZzH and join the next chapter in Antwerp, June 2-6, 2025!

OpenTelemetry Demo 2.0 just got announced. It includes a ton of CNCF projects and a rewritten #dotnet auto-instrumentation demo opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/ot... #cncf #openTelemetry #cloudnative

Today’s your last chance to enjoy early bird pricing for my upcoming workshop at @ndcconferences.com in Oslo! #ndcoslo #messaging #eda ndcoslo.com/workshops/de...

Really looking forward to this year’s #NDCOslo! 🎉🎉🎉

For applications needing low latency and efficient messaging, MQTT stands out compared to HTTP's traditional approach. CsharpCorner offers a comparison of the two protocols:

Don’t know who needs to hear this but you do not need to earn rest and recovery ❤️‍🩹. They are a prerequisite for your performance. So please be kind to yourself.

Residues and The Philosophy of Software Architecture leanpub.com/b/residues by Barry M O’Reilly is the featured bundle of ebooks 📚 on the Leanpub homepage! leanpub.com #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareArchitecture #books #ebooks

This is still my favourite answer to "What does a software architect do?" Source: youtube.com/watch?v=FGKG...

It’s a pleasure to be a part of this amazing group for the third year in a row! 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks to all conferences who welcomed me in 2024! 🙏🏼

Just a few weeks left now! I’ll be running my messaging workshop and a talk, hope to see you there 🎉

THE #kcdc2025 CFP IS OFFICIALLY OPEN!!! 🎉✨ Share your top sessions with us by Feb 21st. 🔥 Let's make this year unforgettable! 🔥 sessionize.com/kcdc-...

Wondering what skills to level up in 2025? How about improving your understanding of messaging architectures? Join our expert-led workshops at #NDCLondon featuring noctovis, danielmarbach irina_scurtu. Limited spots available! Check out the details at https://ndclondon.com/workshops

The Call for Proposals for #DDDEU is open until January 16, 2025. We're looking for hands-on labs and talks. No need to submit fully formed abstracts: if you submit a rough idea we like, we'll have a conversation with you to see where it could go: https://buff.ly/3YgXwSQ

What are you reading this holiday season (if at all)?

Reading through a formal specification is like going through a sequence of “Huh?” “Aahh…” “Hmmm” “Oh!” happening in a loop, on repeat, in no particular order. Repetition is key 😅

It is time for www.cloudbrew.be w. great friends! #Azure #cloud #community #mvpbuzz @noctovis.bsky.social @rikhepworth.com @97adele.bsky.social @djohnnie.joho.me @stack72.dev @alexandair.bsky.social @ba.4bes.nl @samvanhoutte.net @denniedeclercq.bsky.social @joonasw.net

Incredibly proud and pleased to be featured on the MS MVP Communities Blog today alongside Emma and Jemima! #MVPBuzz techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/MVPAwar...

I saw this in action, it’s pretty neat!

#Azure Service Bus transactions: You can put a transaction boundary around settling inbound message(s) from a queue and sending messages to any number of outbound queues for your job processing output. No messages will be sent or deleted until commit. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...

Finally! Azure Service Bus Emulator is Now Available! I made a video showing how to get started, and get this added to .NET Aspire! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcIX... #dotnet #aspire

All my MVP friends, @tobiasfenster.io has built a little tool that adds you to starter packs and lists based on your MVP profile. Just add a link to Bluesky to your MVP profile, fill out the data in this form, and DONE! verified-bluesky-rpu7w3bv.fermyon.app

Hello everyone!!

I look forward to sharing some insights about orchestration and choreography to coordinate complex workflows in distributed systems next! See you at 2.15PM in room T.2.105 🎉 And don’t forget to grab a book on the fallacies of distributed computing at the end! #distributedsystems #architecture

The Azure Service Bus emulator is finally here! 🎉🎉🎉 This will make local development and local testing so much easier and also cheaper!👌🏼 But remember, as with any emulator, you still want to test against the real service as well 😅

@udidahan.bsky.social also has a great talk on the hardship of making a proper idempotency handling www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNou... 🙂

@oskardudycz.bsky.social talks about idempotent command handling in his latest post: tinyurl.com/idempotent-c... One huge caveat: even if you've made your code idempotent, this is an ongoing effort. Idempotency needs to be reevaluated after every code change.