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Functional programming and blind adoption of 3rd party software.

Training I was lucky enough to have had the pleasure of attending an introduction to Domain Driven Design, CQRS (coined - in part at least - by the presenter himself)  and Event Sourcing by Greg Young at Skills Matters in London last week.   It was snappy, contentious - at times - and very informative and definitely gave me  a lot of food for thought, I now have a reading list as long as my arm.    As an added bonus, the people who attended, as well as Greg himself, were approachable and easy going, as the beers after will testify to.  The background to me getting on this course,  is that we are currently going through a massive set of architectural, infrastructural and cultural  change at my current employer, and this course has set me up to be asking more searching questions and provide input on some of the stuff we are currently doing and are planning to be doing soon. I'm not going to write about any of the above though, a quick search will elicit a million articles, and