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Data

What happened, and how do we record it faithfully?

Events as atomic data units — the event log as committed record. Events are data; at best they become information once structured. They are not knowledge.

15 published articles

From Synthesizing Knowledge
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Synthesizing Knowledge
Series preview — how explicit information becomes something we can act on
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From Modeling Truth
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Before You Model
What Genesis established — synthesis with links, for readers new or returning
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Domain Events Are Not CRUD
Storage verbs force interpretation where the log should speak plainly
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From Genesis
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Capturing Truth — and the Schema-Evolution Myth
How truth gets into a system in the first place, and why doing it wrong shows up as schema churn
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Atoms of Truth
What the irreducible units of truth are — and why the most important ones go unrecorded
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Captured Evidence
Tier one — what the log can claim, and what it cannot
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Four Capture Modes
Tier 1 contains only events
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When Facts Are Wrong
Corrections, amendments, and compensating transactions
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Why Atomicity Matters
How far an artifact sits from the irreducible — and why that governs what may depend on it
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One Authority Per Invariant
The principle that makes distributed systems consistent makes organisations accountable
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One Authority Per Invariant — At Scale
How the single writer principle applies when multiple product teams share cross-cutting obligations
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Event Sourced Science
Why the ML reproducibility crisis is an architecture problem
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From Immutable Events to Immutable Software
Why a foundation of atomic ground truth makes software cheap to extend in the age of AI
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Immutable Infrastructure
Why containers are a statement about truth
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The Unified Theory
One problem. One axiom. Six facets. Zero coincidences.
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