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The Published Language and Industry Standards in Domain-Driven Design

Architecture / February 19, 2025 / DDD

Note: The following content represents personal insights and is not an exhaustive guide. It may contain inaccuracies or incomplete information. Strategic Monoliths and Microservices by Vaughn Vernon and Tomasz Jaskuła is essential reading for understanding the concept of Published Language in Domain-Driven Design (DDD). The book explores how Published Language serves as a contract between […]

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Event Metadata Specification in the Dutch Energy Sector

EDA / January 24, 2025

The primary purpose of this document is to define a specification for describing event data, referred to as the Event Data Specification. This specification was developed on behalf of MFF BAS for the energy sector by the API Strategy Working Group and serves as a normative standard for specifying event metadata in the Dutch energy

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CloudEvents in the Dutch Energy Sector

Architecture / November 19, 2024

In this article, authors Mark Dirksma (EDSN) and Ton Donker (Enexis) describe the minimal set of CloudEvents context attributes required to define the metadata of an event in the Dutch (NL) energy sector. This minimal set is an energy sector-specific adaptation of the the (Dutch) NL GOV profile on CloudEvents. The NL GOV profile for

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Event Driven Architecture Vision Document

Architecture / March 1, 2024

Vision document Event Driven Architecture: research into the possibilities of Event Driven Architecture in data exchange. Written by several colleagues in the Dutch energy sector, and approved by the CoP Secure Architecture board of MFF BAS as of 17-01-2024. I’m pleased to have played a part in its creation. The result of this effort is

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Patterns for API Design: Adoption Story Part 3

API Design / January 26, 2024

This article presents our third Patterns for API Design Adoption Story, featuring feedback and review comments on the 21 selected patterns published in the LinkedIn article series ‘API Design Pattern of the Week.’ This LinkedIn series was launched by Olaf and Mirko in February 2023, and an engaged readership from the Dutch Energy Sector has

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