Episode 75: Scott Bellware and Nathan Ladd, Eventide Project

Host Drew Ogryzek and special guests Scott Bellware and Nathan Ladd of eventide-project.org discuss their backgrounds in computing, differences in the rapid iteration environment of a web startup using an MVC framework like Ruby on Rails, and the term "engineering" with regards to web-development versus embedded software and systems engineering or bridge building, time to feedback, and dive into eventsourcing.

The past decade of web development has, for a large part been dominated by the MVC (model-view-controller) architectural pattern. Bellware and Ladd believe that event-sourced systems architecture is a general architectural design that is applicable for most systems, not only special purpose only for fin-tech, for example. The next decade of software development may see a lot more event-sourcing, as SOA (Service-oriented architecture) becomes more mainstream with current trends towards microservices.

Bellware mentions that a major difference between traditional SOA and microservices is smart pipes, dumb services (SOA) versus dumb pipes, smart services. Eventide-project.org is a microservices stack for Ruby, developed by Bellware and Ladd, who were in Vancouver the last week of April 2017, from Austin, Texas, delivering a well-received workshop covering getting started with the project.

Follow Scott Bellware on Twitter at @sbellware

Follow Nathan Ladd on Twitter at @realntl

Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect

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