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2024

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In this episode...

It’s an eventful episode as we start off with a discussion of event sourcing, event-driven code, event storming, and more. Then we return to working on our fetch() wrapper. We factor our test-based prototype into a real production class, clean up the tests, and add TypeScript types.

Contents

• Event Sourcing (0:22)
• Event-Driven Code (11:11)
• Event Storming (23:30)
• The Original Sin of Software Scaling (27:23)
• Refactoring Events (28:45)
• Naming Conventions (32:47)
• Java 21 (42:08)
• Inappropriate Abstractions (44:25)
• Let’s Do Some Coding (53:01)
• Design the fetch() Wrapper (56:34)
• Factor Out HttpClient (1:17:41)
• Add TypeScript Types (1:23:40)
• Node/TypeScript Incompatibility (1:39:52)
• Clean Up the Tests (1:58:36)
• Close SpyServer with Extreme Prejudice (2:05:06)
• Back to Cleaning Up Tests (2:11:08)
• Debrief (2:32:22)

Source code

• Start of episode
• End of episode

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