2026

Tech posts from 2026

Everything I wrote about software, event sourcing and Rust in 2026, newest first.

Why skilj has no aggregates

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22 October 2026

Dynamic Consistency Boundaries instead of aggregates: how skilj checks a rule that spans a student and a course in one decision, and what it costs.

skilj 0.1.0: separating things, on purpose

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19 October 2026

The first skilj release with a compatibility promise, what it does, why the name fits, and an honest word on where it stands.

skilj 0.0.10 speaks Federation

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11 October 2026

skilj joins a supergraph as an Apollo Federation v2 subgraph, with consistency queries, 25-50x faster catch-up and database epochs.

schema_registry_converter 6.0

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22 October 2026

Eight years after 0.1.0, the Rust crate for Kafka's Schema Registry gets its biggest update: runtime Protobuf encoding, schema ids in headers, and 7.5 million downloads.

Tiered storage for a DCB event store?

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14 October 2026

Measurements on moving old event payloads to S3, why DCB keeps the tag index hot forever, and an open question on when an event can go cold.

vados 0.1.0: now you can run it

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7 October 2026

Four years after shipping a static site generator without a binary, vados gets a command line: init, check and authoring commands.