Cassandra writes in depth

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Keep your domain clean in Event Sourcing

Published at: https://blog.softwaremill.com/keep-your-domain-clean-in-event-sourcing-5db6ddc26fe4

Scalable read model updates in Akka Persistence

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Dropwizard Metrics - considered harmful?

I admit, the title sounds like a clickbait. Dropwizard Metrics is a pretty nice library. What is actually harmful are your assumptions about its functionalities. Are you familiar with Dropwizard’s reservoirs implementation? If not, let me start with an example:

Akka Streams pitfalls to avoid — part 2

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Akka Streams pitfalls to avoid — part 1

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Multiroom with Raspberry Pi, Snapcast and Mopidy

I always wanted to have an audio multiroom, which would allow me to play the same music in all rooms, but also provide the ability to control each room separately (on/off, volume, etc.). Obviously, I could buy one of the existing systems like Denon Heos, but then I would need to remove/sell my old audio equipment, which is working perfectly fine. I could also buy Chromecast Audio and create an audio group - but it seemed like a “too easy” solution. Fortunately, one of the presentations from this year code.talks conference gave me the inspiration and direction for building my own multiroom system, based on Raspberry Pi devices.