Let's face it – the concepts we use everyday are complex. While CQRS, DDD, and other architectural patterns may be 20+ years old now, anyone who's learned them can tell you that it takes a while to get the hang of it. Today, Sara speaks with Jaroslav Schnaubert of ASSIST on strategies to ease the learning curve – from breaking down the process and …

In this episode, Sara is joined by Emilien Pecoul – software developer, architect, and entrepreneur. They discuss the benefits of using patterns such as domain-driven design (DDD), event sourcing, and Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) in startup companies and for freelancers looking for their next project. Emilien shares insights into…

Ready to tackle the journey from monolith to microservices? Get some pointers from the pros first! In this episode, Sara is joined by Frédéric Bouvet, a software engineer with 12 years of experience. Frédéric has worked extensively with CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation), DDD (Domain-Driven Design), and event sourcing patterns, particu…

Curious about the dynamics of Open Space & Unconferences? In this episode of Exploring Axon, Sara Torrey sits down with the multi-hyphenate Houssam Fakih – an "unconference disorganizer," facilitator, mentor, coach, co-author, speaker, and developer. The two touch on how these vibrant, participant-driven gatherings thrive on sharing knowledge, stim…

The Norton winery dates back to the 1800s. It has a very recognizable label that your buyer and customers know. They are a staple item in all off-premise accounts and are recognized for high quality in on-premise accounts. They do more than just Malbec. They also produce Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay that are affordable and of very high quality…

Alta Vista is a small, craft winery that is producing high quality wines that are also affordable. The Malbec varietal has become so popular in the US that it is found in every off-premise account and most on-premise accounts. Additionally, Argentina is not just about Malbec anymore, they are making great Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay as well. …

The Montes family and winery are one of the most iconic producers of Chile. They were pioneers in fine wine and produce high quality wine from their basic tier to their top Icon line. This is a brand that your buyers and customers know and respect. Chile produces wines in a style very similar to California, at a fraction of the price! Open up a few…

Barbera d’Asti is one of the most popular red wines of Italy. You can find it on every Italian family’s dinner table. One of the reasons it is so popular, is because of its compatibility with food. High acid, red berry fruit, perfect for meats or pastas. Michele Chiarlo is one of the most iconic producers of Barbera in all of Piedmont and produces …

The sparkling wine category continues to dominate wine sales in the US. Caposaldo is a family winery that makes affordable quality. These wines are hand crafted and estate bottled. These are sweet wines that show flavors of honey and apricot, while being balanced by fresh vibrant acidity. The aromas are captivating and the lower alcohol is apprecia…

Welcome to season 7 of Exploring Axon! Our host Sara Torrey returns, this time with the pleasure of hearing from Sylvain Couddert, a podcast producer/host and freelance software developer from France. In this episode, Sara and Sylvain delve into his four-year podcasting experience and the significance of knowledge sharing in the software community.…

Exploring Axon is back from hiatus to bring an update on an exciting event taking place in Amsterdam this September – AxonIQ Conference 2023 and DrivUn, an unconference for the latest trends in event-driven, domain-driven, and message-driven systems. In this episode, Sara sits down with AxonIQ CTO Allard Buijze as well as AxonIQ Developer Advocate …

Sara spoke with Cédric Teyton, the CEO of Promyze, about the importance of code quality in software projects. They also discussed how valuable it is to share knowledge amongst team members, and a way to do both is by using the platform he and his team have built, Promyze. Promyze is a collaborative platform that helps teams define and share their b…

Sara spoke with Spring developer advocate Josh long. Josh talked about his days pre-Spring and why he decided to join the team at Spring.io. He also talked about the reasons why he has stayed with the team and what excites him about the community. Sara asked Josh how he learned about Axon, what that relationship has been, and why he and Allard Buij…

In this second portion of Sara's talk with Shopey they talked more about how Axon products have helped Shopey and his team in their efforts to move to faster and more reliable systems as well as how they have managed communication within distributed large teams. Connect with Shopey on LinkedIn. Connect with Sara on LinkedIn. Learn more about AxonIQ…

This is the first part of Sara's conversation with Shopey Mossavar-Rahmani about working as a software engineer and architect at a large Swedish furniture company’s legacy system built in 1985. They discussed the challenges of still working with this system, why it hasn’t been fully replaced, and how the efforts of moving some of the logic to other…

During this conversation, Sara spoke with colleague and Axon-Server engineer Stefan Dragisic about multitenancy, its benefits, and drawbacks. Stefan explained multitenancy, its usefulness, and who can benefit from using our multitenancy extension for Axon Server and Axon Framework. We have code samples to try the Axon Framework's multitenancy featu…

Sara asked Allard Buijze, the CTO of AxonIQ, various questions about his role as the CTO and his other responsibilities at AxonIQ. They discussed what problems AxonIQ is trying to solve, what are the newest products, what are Allard's main roles are at the company, and how he manages his time between development, research, and other activities with…

In this episode, Sara spoke with Arjan Noordhoek, a software architect, and consultant. They talked about Arjan’s new event modeling tool, Model My Code. He explained how to use it and where to get it. He discussed why it is important to, as he puts it, make design center-stage again, as well as the importance of outcome-driven discovery sessions. …

Sara spoke with a colleague, Mitchell Herrijgers, one of Axon Framework's engineers and one of AxonIQ's Solutions Architects. Mitchell has been leading a project for a tool internally called "Inspector Axon." This tool helps developers monitor various things within their axon framework-based application and gauge metrics, find out about various eve…

Sara spoke with Allard Buijze, the CTO of AxonIQ live, about the various types of nodes currently used in Axon Server and the benefits of each. He then explained the difference between tiered storage and our current data storage method and if they can complement one another. Tiered Storage is a new feature in Axon Server Enterprise Edition that wil…

Sara's guest today is Laurent Thoulon from the company, Locala. Laurent is a software engineer and architect working with event sourcing for the past five years and has gained some great insights in the process. He shared his experiences designing systems and applications through event modeling, communication with the business side, and more. Here …

In this portion of our conversation, Dominic talked about how ABAC can be used to secure Axon applications. He explained the spring boot integration, Axon's command side, and the query side. He talked about the annotation he introduced in his framework that integrates very nicely with the axon framework. He also talked about integration, how it can…

I recently had the pleasure of talking with Dominic Heutelbeck about Attribute-Based Access Control. Dominic is a computer science professor leading the FTK (Forschungsinstitut für Telekommunikation und Kooperation e.V.) Research Institute in Dortmund, Germany. In the first portion of our talk, Dominic explained what access control is and its impor…

In this episode, Sara spoke with Frederic Gendebien about possible patterns one can use when designing a CQRS distributed system.By Sara Torrey / Allard Buijze

In this episode, Sara spoke with a few members of the Axon Server team about our newest product, Axon Synapse. The Synapse makes it possible for all applications, regardless of the language, to use an HTTP bridge to access Axon Server and use it. Therefore, there is no need to use Axon Framework or a plugin to use Axon Server. They discussed the be…

In this last portion of the “State and the Future of AxonIQ” presentation, the core Axon Server team, Sara Pellegrini, Milan Savic, and Marc Gathier talked about the latest Axon Server edition and its features. They also discussed some of the items that will change next year and why. After that, our CTO, Allard Buijze introduced our newest product,…

=In this episode, Sara speaks with colleague and lead developer of Axon Framework, Steven van Beelen about AxonIQ's newest, most anticipated feature of Axon Framework 4.6: the Dead-Letter Queue. Steven explains what DLQ is and why it's been implemented in our framework. He also speaks about how the users can benefit from it, when to enqueue a messa…

This episode continues the "State and Future of AxonIQ" presentation by the AxonIQ CTO, Allard Buijze, and friends at our conference in September. This presentation highlighted some changes within AxonIQ as a company, as well as the products in the past two years and moving forward. In this second portion of the talk, Allard and Steven van Beelen (…

Connect with Milen on LinkedIn and Twitter. Connect with Allard on LinkedIn and Twitter. Connect with Sara on LinkedIn and Twitter.By Sara Torrey / Allard Buijze

In this episode, Sara speaks with Andy Whitaker from the State of Indiana. Andy's been working on his “new” project for the past couple of years. He arrived at this team with previous Axon Framework experience as well as a great deal of knowledge and experience using DDD, CQRS, and microservices. However, this time around he was faced with some new…

Last week, Sara had the great honor of participating at our in-person conference the AxonIQ Con 2022 at the Tobacco Theatre in Amsterdam. AxonIQ hosted two days of amazing talks, workshops, knowledge sharing, connecting, and hallway discussions. On our final day, we had a panel discussion with 4 panelists who presented talks or workshops at our con…

The biggest event of the year is nearly here: AxonIQ Conference 2022 (#AxonIQCon22). In this episode, Sara chats with AxonIQ engineers who are presenting workshops on Axon Framwork and Axon Server on September 23. There will be several exciting workshops presented by AxonIQ users, guests, and partners at the conference as well. AxonIQ will share ou…

The number one selling sparkling wine category in the US. High quality at an affordable price. This will make you money in every account you call on. Nick Poletto is the Vice President of Education at Kobrand Corporation. Kobrand has been importing fine wine into the US since 1944. Kobrand is a family owned importer with quality wine as its main fo…

AxonIQ Conference 2022 is coming up in less than three weeks in the heart of Old Amsterdam at Tobacco Theater on September 22 and 23. This in-person event is our most exciting time of the year. Join us to learn and explore DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Event-Driven Architecture, modeling your systems, designing your applications, architectural pattern…

Big things are coming up! In this episode, Sara speaks with AxonIQ CTO and co-founder Allard Buijze about Axon Server and its latest release, 4.6. He highlights some of the new features and enhancements and provides a glimpse of Axon Framework’s upcoming release. The two then dive into our much anticipated event of the year: AxonIQ Conference. #Axo…

In this episode, Sara continues her discussion with colleagues Sara Pellegrini and Milan Saviç about the challenges of moving from a monolithic system to distributed systems in the event there's a need to do so. In the previous episode, the three focused on data storage. In this episode, the discussion shifts more toward message dispatching. Connec…

In this episode, Sara speaks with amazing colleagues Sara Pellegrini and Milan Saviç. They discuss the challenges of moving from a monolithic system to distributed systems – that is, only if there is a need to do so. The three focus on two areas: message dispatching and data storage, exploring how to enhance the performance and make it more managea…

In this episode, Sara speaks with Francesco Strazzullo, a full-stack developer and consultant. Francesco started his software development journey writing Java applications, but has spent the better part of the past decade working with the front-end languages and libraries and researching on how to improve the design and functionality of JavaScript-…

There are many rose wines in the market, but few have the pedigree and popularity of this premium style. Popular with celebrities, yachts, and exotic locations, AIX is an aspirational rose your customer knows and loves. Nick Poletto is the Vice President of Education at Kobrand Corporation. Kobrand has been importing fine wine into the US since 194…

Chateau La Nerthe: one of the most historic and famous Chateau in all of Chateauneuf du Pape…and you sell it! Your customers will know this brand and remember it for its quality, which has only gotten better. Nick Poletto is the Vice President of Education at Kobrand Corporation. Kobrand has been importing fine wine into the US since 1944. Kobrand …

Located in the most northern reaches of Burgundy, home to some of the coldest Chardonnay vineyards and producing one of world’s favorite white wines…say hello to Chablis! Chablis continues to win the hearts of both wine enthusiasts and everyday consumers. A lean, elegant style Chardonnay that is a favorite in both restaurants and wine shops. Learn …

In this episode, Sara speaks with Solution Engineer Christian Vermorken. Christian helps educate and assist various customers with various concepts, such as Domain-Driven Design, Command-Query Responsibility Separation, Event Sourcing as well as more specific ones, including Axon Framework and Axon Server. Christian is also a knowledgeable trainer,…

In this episode, Sara connects with colleagues Bert Laverman & Lucas Campos to discuss the benefits (and drawbacks) of using Axon Server on premise & in the cloud – from the setup process for each to the back-up options as well as pricing & the value of support for either. The three also touch base on managing sensitive data in either case, data mi…

In this episode, Sara speaks with Misha Makara of Mindsea about an application he and his team helped design and develop called Hyr. Hyr helps individuals find temporary shift work in the field of hospitality. The choice to implement DDD, CQRS, and event sourcing was a clear one from the start for Misha and his team, as they knew how complex some o…

In this episode, Sara continues the conversation on message-driven architecture and message schemas with colleagues, Ivan Dugalic and Steven van Beelen. The three delve deeper into message evolution. Enjoy! Connect with Ivan on LinkedIn and Twitter. Connect with Steven on LinkedIn and Twitter. Connect with Sara on LinkedIn and Twitter. For more inf…

In this episode we learn about the Loire Valley region and the Bouvet Winery. Bouvet Winery is the second oldest sparkling wine producer with over 500 accolades in the past 40 years. A truly international brand giving the consumer all the flavors of premium Traditional Method sparkling wine, at a fraction of the price. Nick Poletto is the Vice Pres…

In this episode we learn about the Pouilly Fuisse region and the Domaine Ferret Winery. Pouilly Fuisse is one of the most recognized French white wines in the US and Domaine Ferret leads as the most premium, historical example. Nick Poletto is the Vice President of Education at Kobrand Corporation. Kobrand has been importing fine wine into the US s…

In this episode we learn about Cru Beaujolais and Chateau des Jacques. Experience the Gamay grape in all its glory, as it shows incredible levels of complexity and ageability when produced from the famed, superior villages of the Cru Beaujolais. Learn about the most premium and pioneering producer there: Chateau des Jacques. Nick Poletto is the Vic…

In this episode, we learn about Beaujolais Villages and the Maison Louis Jadot winery. This highly versatile wine is perfect chilled on a warm day or paired with burgers on a casual night out with friends. Louis Jadot is the most well-recognized French label and Louis Jadot Beaujolais Villages is the number one selling French red wine in the US. Gi…

In this episode you learn about the Louis Jadot winery and the two white wines considered the doorway to Burgundy -- Macon-Villages and Pouilly-Fuisse. Nick Poletto is the Vice President of Education at Kobrand Corporation. Kobrand has been importing fine wine into the US since 1944. Kobrand is a family owned importer with quality wine as its main …