ecotone
Stop Subscribing to Domain Events
The notification fires before the projection commits. The user sees a stale balance. Emitting derived events from inside the projection — as the read model — closes the race for good.
Dariusz Gafka
I am sharing knowledge and experience about #DDD, #ES and #Message-Driven Systems. And making them effortless to follow with #Ecotone Framework in #PHP.
php
When One Worker Can't Keep Up: Scaling Projections
Scale event sourcing projections with partitioned processing, track-based gap detection, and streaming. Learn how Ecotone handles concurrent transactions.
php
Your Projections Will Fail — Make Them Resilient
Decouple projections from command handlers with async execution. Learn self-healing, failure isolation, batching, and polling in Ecotone's ProjectionV2.
php
Why Projections Exist — Your First Read Model
Learn why Event Sourcing needs projections and build your first read model with Ecotone's ProjectionV2. Lifecycle hooks, state, and CLI included.
php
DDD Was Never the Problem. Your Rules Were.
DDD doesn't have to mean dozens of classes and layers of abstraction. Practical DDD aimed for business side of things will produce less code than CRUD.
DDD
Make your Domain speak the business language
Why organizing your DDD domain layer into Aggregates/, ValueObjects/, and Repositories/ folders undermines the very goal of Domain-Driven Design.
event-sourcing
Ecotone Agentic Skills on your command
Every Developer has that list of patterns they'll learn "someday." Event Sourcing. CQRS. Sagas. What if the gap between knowing these exist and actually building with them just collapsed?
ai
AI Isn't the Problem. Your Architecture Is
AI coding assistants have created a velocity paradox. Developers ship code 55% faster, but that AI-generated code shows 41% higher churn rates (rotation of the code). When you're adding features at twice the speed, architectural mistakes compound at twice the rate too.
workflows
What If 80% of Your Workflow Code Shouldn't Exist?
Before reaching for state machines or saga patterns, ask yourself: is this actually a multi-step process, or just a delayed action? The answer will save you hundreds of lines of code.
legacy
Your Legacy PHP Codebase Isn't Hopeless
You ship a small bug fix. Suddenly, two other features break. Every deployment feels like gambling. The business depends on this app—it brings in revenue, customers use it daily—but nobody feels confident working on it.
php
Vibe coding Enterprise PHP Applications
Everyone's talking about vibe coding — describing what you want in natural language and letting AI generate the code. Solo developers are shipping features in hours and Startups are prototyping before lunch. But here's what nobody mentions at the demo stage: most vibe-coded applications are architectural disasters
architecture
Implementing Event-Driven Architecture in PHP
Let's dive into how we can build Event-Driven Architecture in PHP using Smart Endpoint - Dumb Pipes approach.