Keep your domain clean in Event Sourcing

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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.

Akka monitoring with Kamon part 3

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