It’s curious how we no longer ask why our software doesn’t work, but how it ever did in the first place. I interpret that as a symptom of the complexity of modern systems and inadequate diligence to maintain quality assurance that failed to keep up with the ever-growing challenges of…

We 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. I’ve never been the kind of guy that plays in the lottery. The overwhelming odds of losing are staggering; it’s actually more likely…

This awkward and stressful thing between emerging a hero after completing the 12 labors of Hercules and the pointless successive hula hoops jumps of a circus trained animal, which we lightly call job interviews. We all hate them, yet they are an unavoidable fact of our professional lives. When for…

Recently I wrote about the challenges of event sourcing and CQRS in this article “What they don’t tell you about event sourcing”. A manager once told me “If you bring me a problem and don’t bring me the solution then you are the problem”. In light of this, I will…

Event sourcing and CQRS gained a lot of popularity recently. The advantages are obvious and they share a very peculiar symbiosis with the current tech state of the art, making them very relevant. However, after working for several years with them in production there are several caveats that one should…