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Ben Stopford
benstopford.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2011
Ben Stopford, a Kafka and data systems engineer, writes about event-driven architectures, log-structured merge trees, scalable data platforms and careers in tech.
What HN saysCommenters call his whole blog pure gold for streaming and event-driven systems and recommend it for high-quality related content, including his LSM trees post.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Log Structured Merge Trees7 people · 324 points · first shared 2015 · 26 comments on HN
- 2Elements of Scale: Composing and Scaling Data Platforms5 people · 31 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 3Building a Career in Technology2 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 4Designing Event Driven Systems Book2 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 5Arrchitecture of Royal Bank of Scotland's Operational Data Cache System1 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 6Distributed Storage, Phase Change Memory & Rebirth of the In-Memory DB1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 7Database Y1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 8Designing Event Driven Systems1 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 9Homepage1 people · first shared 2023
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mindcrash · 2023-07-22
Ben Stopford's entire blog is pure gold if you are into streaming/event driven systems/event driven architectures.
http://www.benstopford.com/
dmitryminkovsky · 2020-07-07
> Can you guarantee ordering? Can you guarantee exactly once? How do you get transactional semantics? How do you handle cascading failures? It's all a bit overwhelming.
I don’t advocate DDD/microservices but if you absolutely must go down this road, Kafka Streams really neatly answers all these questions. Ben Stopford’s book[0] and blog posts[1] are really great if you want to know more.
[0] http://www.benstopford.com/2018/04/27/book-designing-event-driven-syst…
[1] https://www.confluent.io/blog/building-a-microservices-ecosystem-with-…
d_t_w · 2017-05-31
For further/similar content by Ben Stopford that I personally found a very high quality:
http://www.benstopford.com/2015/02/14/log-structured-merge-trees/