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Derek Comartin

Real-World Event Driven Architecture! 4 Practical Examples

Event Driven Architecture has many benefits. Loose and temporal coupling, scaling, resilience, and more. But what does that mean? What are some actual use-cases? I’m going to describe 4 practical examples of real-world event driven architecture. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I post all kinds of content that accompanies my posts including this video showing everything that is in this post. External Integrations The first practical use-case for real-world event driven architecture is integrating with external 3rd party services. In a lot of systems, when something occurs (an event) you need to interact and exchange data with a 3rd party… Read More »Real-World Event Driven Architecture! 4 Practical Examples

ADVICE to my younger self as a Software Developer

What advice would I give a software developer? Software development, design, and architecture can feel overwhelming. Especially when you’re just trying to get into it as there is so much to learn. What exactly should you focus on? A particular framework, language, or library? After over 20 years of software development as a career writing line of business and enterprise systems, here are the top 5 pieces of advice I’d tell my younger self. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I post all kinds of content that accompanies my posts including this video showing everything that is in this post. Business… Read More »ADVICE to my younger self as a Software Developer

Asynchronous Request-Response Pattern for Non-Blocking Workflows

What’s the asynchronous request-response pattern for? We’re used to synchronous communication. You make a request to another service and get a response. When you move to asynchronous communication, you often think of messages as fire-and-forget. You send a command to a queue, and the consumer handles it asynchronously. Because of the temporal decoupling, you don’t know when the message was processed or what the result was. However, there is a solution! Let me explain how you can use the request-response pattern to reply sender once a message is processed. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I post all kinds of content… Read More »Asynchronous Request-Response Pattern for Non-Blocking Workflows