Link Dump #201

Best starter kit for Friday: sun, warm coffee, and articles worth reading. 

From Event Storming to Microservices: A Living Repository

For the past year, I've been quietly crafting something I’ve wanted for a long time—a repository that brings together many of the architectural and development practices I teach, use, and often write about. It’s not a demo for a talk. It’s not a throwaway “hello world.” It’s a living thing: full of decisions, trade-offs, experiments, and structure.

📦 Explore the repository

Inside, you’ll find examples of using:

• Saga, Outbox, Event Sourcing, and CQRS (within services and between them),

• EDA, Ports and Adapters, Strategic & Tactical DDD, Event Storming on all three levels,

• Plus CI, static analysis, testing strategies, ADR, and even some AI usage.

I’ve started also writing blog posts to explain how and why I approached certain problems the way I did — all of them are or will be also linked in the Readme.md. But it will take time to describe everything. If you’re curious, you don’t have to wait. Just dive in.

If you think something’s missing — or you think I got something wrong — tell me. Let’s talk. That’s how we all get better!

After the Big Picture: Turning Insights into Action

Now that you understand what Big Picture Event Storming is, how to facilitate it, and how to overcome common challenges as a facilitator, I believe the series of articles we’ve explored — walking through its steps and possibilities — demonstrate that the knowledge gained by everyone involved truly justifies the time invested in the workshop.

That said, the objective is to cover various stages of developing a Training Center application, to illustrate how techniques like Event Storming, microservices, event-driven architecture, sagas, and many others can work synergistically to improve product quality, architecture, and code. So the natural next question is: what comes after the Big Picture?

Link Dump #200

The greatest things with reading? New things already are waiting for you :)

Big Challenges of Event Storming Big Picture

Event Storming is a powerful technique that helps you learn a lot, but I always emphasize — both in my daily work and in the trainings I conductc — that you need to ensure there is a return on investment in everything you do. That’s why I want to remind you of a few things you should keep in mind as a workshop facilitator, so you don’t end up with just an entertaining session that delivers little value.

Link Dump #199

This is only one article... and then you are lost for hours :)

So… Which Event Goes First?

How to start?

Last time, we walked through the "enforcing timeline" step of Big Picture Event Storming. To begin, we need to choose the first event — but a simple "Let's start" is easier said than done. Let’s explore a few different approaches for deciding which event (or events) we should start with, along with their respective pros and cons.

All approaches can be divided into two categories:

• Close collaboration — everyone works together all the time.

• Working in silos — people work alone or in smaller groups and merge their outcomes later.