Ralf Westphals Newsletter

The Last Object

You know how to implement the domain of your application?

May 26 • Ralf Westphal

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April 2026

And the Purpose of the Domain is...

I solved a mystery - and that has implications for software architecture

Apr 27 • Ralf Westphal

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September 2025

When to Record an Event?

A checklist for mere mortal developers

Sep 13, 2025 • Ralf Westphal

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Scoping Events

Hierarchical chains of events instead of domain models

Sep 12, 2025 • Ralf Westphal

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Slice me nice

Mapping Agile increments to event sourced slices

Sep 11, 2025 • Ralf Westphal

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Structuring Software for Productivity

Productivity in the face of ongoing change is the fundamental challenge of software development.

Sep 1, 2025 • Ralf Westphal

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August 2025

Killing the Entity!

Event Sourcing done the Epistemic Way

Aug 5, 2025 • Ralf Westphal

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July 2025

Incremental Event Sourcing - Under the hood

How can small Agile increments be mapped onto code?

Jul 29, 2025 • Ralf Westphal

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Incremental Event Sourcing

An extreme example of how to approach an application with Agility and Slicing

Jul 26, 2025 • Ralf Westphal

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AQ over CRUD

How to leave the dark age of software development with Event Sourcing

Jul 23, 2025 • Ralf Westphal

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True Agility Requires Event Sourcing

Agile software development hasn’t been agile so far.

Jul 22, 2025 • Ralf Westphal

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June 2025

Command Context Consistency

The missing piece to the Event Sourcing puzzle for all devs who want to believe, but still are confused

Jun 23, 2025 • Ralf Westphal

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