InITNEXTbyHugo Rocha·Jan 29, 2025Stop losing events: Microservice reliable message consumption“The world has changed. I see it in the water, I feel it in the earth, I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost…”A response icon5A response icon5
InITNEXTbyHugo Rocha·Apr 11, 2023The database inside out with event streamsA message queue essentially becomes a database table with the entity’s latest state, but with all the advantages of message processing.
InITNEXTbyHugo Rocha·Sep 18, 2022What we learned after I deleted the main production database by mistakeA cautionary tale to show that processes exist to protect us from ourselves and our undying stupidityA response icon27A response icon27
InITNEXTbyHugo Rocha·Apr 29, 2022The Forces Opposing Quality AssuranceIt’s curious how we no longer ask why our software doesn’t work, but how it ever did in the first place.A response icon3A response icon3
InITNEXTbyHugo Rocha·Mar 10, 2022Solving Concurrency in Event-Driven MicroservicesWe tend to consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm, Franklin Roosevelt once said…A response icon10A response icon10
InITNEXTbyHugo Rocha·Jan 11, 2022What writing a book taught me about failureIn software development it is sometimes said that “those who can’t do, manage; those who can’t manage, teach; and those who can’t teach…A response icon4A response icon4
Hugo Rocha·Aug 17, 2020My Advice After Interviewing 100+ Software EngineersThis awkward and stressful thing between emerging a hero after completing the 12 labors of Hercules and the pointless successive hula…A response icon33A response icon33
Hugo Rocha·Jun 29, 2020Handling eventual consistencyRecently I wrote about the challenges of event sourcing and CQRS in this article “What they don’t tell you about event sourcing”. A…A response icon3A response icon3
Hugo Rocha·Aug 12, 2018What they don’t tell you about event sourcingEvent sourcing and CQRS gained a lot of popularity recently. The advantages are obvious and they share a very peculiar symbiosis with the…A response icon18A response icon18