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Event Store installation on Various Platforms

Reading Time: 3 minutes Introduction Let’s assume you want to install the Event Store for your next project. What should you do? Here we’ll go over all the different ways EventStore can be installed and give some advice on which one may be best for your situation. Linux To install the Linux version of Event Store, run the following: Here, is the URL for the latest Debian packages: https://packagecloud.io/EventStore/EventStore-OSS Continue Reading

Introduction to EventStoreDB

Reading Time: 5 minutes Introduction In this article, we will discuss the database for Event Sourcing i.e. EventStoreDB. EventStoreDB is a database for storing data as a series of events and being able to rebuild the current state of these events. It’s an approach to building applications by focusing on storing the state changes that occur. Projections are a feature that allows you to react to changes in the Continue Reading

Introduction to Event Sourcing

Reading Time: 3 minutes Event sourcing is a way to store data as events in an append-only log. It only keeps the latest version of the entity state. This method stores the state of a database object as a sequence of events. It is essentially a new event each time the object changed state, from the beginning of the object’s existence. An event can be anything that is generated Continue Reading

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Axon Framework: Event Sourcing with MongoDB

Reading Time: 4 minutes If you want to build Microservices, You may prefer Axon, a Java-based framework. It provides utility to implement CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation), Event Sourcing, and DDD (Domain Driven Design) architectural patterns while developing a software application. Axon facilitates the implementation of Command Handling, Event Routing, Event Sourcing, Snapshotting, and many more building blocks. It has very friendly APIs to use these implementations and build Continue Reading

A Brief Introduction to Axon Framework

Reading Time: 3 minutes Need for Axon Framework Axon Framework is designed to support developers in applying the CQRS/DDD architectural pattern and Event Sourcing. It helps developers build easily scalable and maintainable applications by providing implementations of some basic building blocks, such as Aggregates, repositories, and event buses  Axon Framework, founded by Allard Buijze also working for Trifork, is an open source product with version 3 planned for Q1 2016. CQRS Example Using Continue Reading

What, Why, and How Cloudstate?

Reading Time: 4 minutes This article talks about the Lightbend’s Cloudstate which is used for serverless computing.

Serialization in Lagom

Reading Time: 2 minutes In my previous blogs on Lagom, we discussed Persistent Entity and Read-side and Write side in Lagom. In this blog, I’m going to discuss how serialization is handled in Lagom. But before that let’s understand what serialization is ? Serialization is a process of converting an object into the stream of bytes so that you can store or transmit it in memory, database etc. Its Continue Reading

Lagom Read side and Write side

Reading Time: 3 minutes Lagom is a framework that is used for building reactive microservices. It provides support for building read side and write side views of the data so that querying a microservice becomes easier. In this blog, I’ll discuss about how having a read side view is beneficial and also important in microservices. Before reading this blog I’ll recommend you to have some knowledge about Event Sourcing Continue Reading

Persistent Entity in Lagom

Reading Time: 4 minutes Lagom is an open source framework for building systems of Reactive microservices in Java or Scala. It is build on Akka and Play. It has a concept of persistent entity and in this blog, we will learn about persistent entity in Lagom in detail. First of all, before reading about persistent entity it would be better if you have some knowledge about Event Sourcing and Continue Reading

Understanding data persistence in Lagom

Reading Time: 4 minutes When we create any microservice, or in general any service, one of the biggest task is to manage data persistence. Lagom supports various databases for doing this task. By default, Lagom uses Cassandra to persist data.

Kafka Timestamp Extractor

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hi folks, I hope you all’re doing well, so if you land up here you probably looking for Timestamp Extractor for kafka streams, so whats the buzz is all about? So in this blog we are going to look what it is and would explore it as well, so buckle up. The Timestamp Extractor As per docs, A timestamp extractor extracts a timestamp from an Continue Reading

RAP: Let’s discuss the architecture and technical details

Reading Time: 4 minutes In the previous blog, we discussed the journey and the features of RAP. In this blog, we will discuss the architecture and technical details. RAP Architecture: We have tried to follow the Domain-Driven Design and Reactive principles in designing RAP architecture. All RAP team members completed all the Reactive Architecture courses launched by Lightbend on cognitive classes to ensure adherence to reactive principles. These courses Continue Reading

RAP: The journey from a learning project to a useful product

Reading Time: 4 minutes A few months back, I was working on interesting customer engagement. Lagom was getting popularity, therefore, I and my few team members wanted to explore it to see if it would suit our needs. Just reading its documentation was not enough to get the proper practical hands-on. So we thought to do a project. The idea was that we should not build a dummy project, Continue Reading