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Steven van Beelen

Sep 17, 2025

More Features to Love in Axon Framework 5: Event Sourcing That’s Truly Reactive for Modern Applications

Discover the new features of Axon Framework 5, including reactive event processing and stateful event handlers, that enhance application performance and scalability.

Bruce Hopkins

Aug 28, 2025

Modernizing Your Apache Kafka Architecture Without Starting Over

Your Apache Kafka infrastructure represents significant investment in technology, training, and operational expertise. AxonIQ enhances it and multiples that value.

Jessica Reeves

Aug 5, 2025

Building My Next AI Unicorn

Jessica Reeves is applying her experience as CEO of AxonIQ, reuniting with Barry Libert (former Anaconda CEO/Executive Chairman, now AxonIQ Chairman). Together, they navigated the complex journey from startup to unicorn, learning how to balance aggressive growth with sustainable business practices

Marc Gathier

Jun 27, 2025

Announcing Axon Server 2025.1 with Dynamic Consistency Boundary (DCB) - An Event Store that is future-proof

Discover how Axon Server 2025.1 introduces Dynamic Consistency Boundaries (DCB) to bring true flexibility to event-sourced systems. Learn what’s new, how it works, and why it’s a game-changer for developers building adaptive, event-driven architectures.

Allard Buijze

Jun 27, 2025

Anonymous Usage Data Collection: Ensuring Axon Framework's Sustainable Future

Axon Framework is evolving. Learn why we're introducing anonymous usage data collection to ensure long-term sustainability, enhance security, and stay true to our open source roots—without drastic license changes.

Marco Amann

May 22, 2025

Event Sourcing Made Easy: Axon Server 2025.0 for the curious developer

Discover how Axon Server 2025.0 simplifies event sourcing for developers of any language, enabling robust event-driven applications and seamless communication across services.

Bruce Hopkins

Apr 16, 2025

Announcing Axon Server 2025.0: Connecting to Axon Server made easy

Axon Server 2025.0 has robust support for bi-directional HTTP connections. This means you can use any programming language to interact with Axon Server.

Steven van Beelen

Apr 16, 2025

Announcing Axon Framework 5: Configuring Axon made easy.

At the heart of Axon Framework 5’s revamp lies the new and improved Configuration API. Developers can now focus on specific aspects.

Axoniq

Feb 4, 2025

What's Cooking Inside AxonIQ's Kitchen - Our 2025 Outlook

Discover how AxonIQ is redefining event sourcing with Dynamic Consistency Boundaries (DCB) and Axon Framework 5. Explore groundbreaking updates in Axon Server and Axon Console, and get a glimpse of what’s next in event-driven architecture.

Ardan Thornhill

Oct 9, 2024

Missed #AxonIQCon24? Catch every moment on YouTube

Catch all the talks from AxonIQ Conference 2024 on our YouTube playlist! Dive into 12+ sessions with real-world strategies for event-driven architectures and microservices.

Ardan Thornhill

Sep 13, 2024

The 5 fundamental challenges AxonIQ helps you solve

AxonIQ's Event Sourcing solutions to challenges: scalable microservices, efficient event handling, and robust system resilience.

Bruce Hopkins

Aug 22, 2024

Rethinking microservices architecture through Dynamic Consistency Boundaries

Learn how Dynamic Consistency Boundaries can revolutionize your microservices architecture with Axon, offering adaptable solutions for increased flexibility and scalability in systems like banking, where strong and eventual consistencies matter.

Marc Gathier

Jul 18, 2024

Introducing Axon Server 2024.1

Introducing Axon Server 2024.1: Simplified, efficient event processing with new persistent streams.

Bruce Hopkins

Jun 7, 2024

AxonIQ Console Guide: Maximize Axon-Based App Performance

Streamline Axon Framework app management with AxonIQ Console: monitor handlers, visualize messages, and ensure data privacy.

Allard Buijze

Apr 30, 2024

Balancing open source & commercial offerings: new pricing

Explore AxonIQ’s new Axon Server plans—scalable, pay-as-you-go solutions for evolving event-driven systems without contract commitment.

Stefan Dragisic

Apr 3, 2024

Introducing Axon Server 2024.0

Experience the enhanced functionalities and modern design of Axon Server UI 2024.0. Upgrade now for better insight into Axon Framework-based applications.

Gerard Klijs

Mar 26, 2024

How to work around Apache Kafka’s limitations

Axon Server addresses five Kafka limitations: information sharing, concurrency control, event integrity, dynamic scaling, and complexity management.

Ardan Thornhill

Mar 20, 2024

Why the world’s top banks choose AxonIQ

Transform finance with AxonIQ: Agile, scalable solutions trusted by banks like Standard Chartered. Drive industry empowerment with event-driven architecture.

Paul Kuyer

Feb 9, 2024

Introducing the AxonIQ Technical Advisory Board

Discover AxonIQ's Technical Advisory Board (TAB) and how we gain insights into developer needs and enhance our platform strength for diverse requirements.

Steven van Beelen

Feb 6, 2024

Introducing AxonIQ Console: powering event-driven applications

AxonIQ Console is the unified platform for managing event-driven applications with a sleek UI, flexible subscriptions, and automated load balancing.

Mohamed Essam

Jan 31, 2024

AxonIQ Academy: Learning for event-driven architecture

AxonIQ Academy enhances your knowledge of event-driven architecture—the new learning paths for Java, non-Java developers and ops professionals.

Stefan Dragisic

Dec 10, 2023

Supercharging machine learning with event sourcing

Harmonizing history: How event sourcing supercharges machine learning model training.

Ardan Thornhill

Dec 5, 2023

What's up with 'Hands On Axon'?

Hands On Axon - the YouTube series featuring Mitchell Herrijgers & David Gomez Garcia – will take a December hiatus.

Axon Server Release 2023.2

The latest updates & features of Axon Server 2023.2, Runtime TLS Certificate & Key Replacement, Enhanced Metrics Exposure, & Upgraded Diagnostics.

Gerard Klijs

Oct 20, 2023

Empowering Rust application development with Axon Synapse

Discover message-based communication (JSON over HTTP) with Axon Synapse for Rust. Explore simplified state management, message types, and integrations.

Ben Runchey

Oct 4, 2023

The case for Axon Server over MongoDB for your event store

Discover the pitfalls of reaching for "what's easy" as software architects and engineers. Learn why Axon Server triumphs over MongoDB for event storage.

Ardan Thornhill

Aug 17, 2023

Five reasons to attend AxonIQ conference 2023

Learn about the top five reasons not to miss AxonIQ Conference 2023 in Amsterdam on Thursday, September 28.

Henk Nijenhuis

Aug 9, 2023

Starting your first PoC with an event-driven approach and Axon

Are you planning to get your first hands-on experience with a more event-driven approach to software development using Axon? Then this is the blog.

Gerard Klijs

Aug 3, 2023

Event sourcing is not scary

There is more to Axon Framework than just the tools for event sourcing read this blog from Gerard Klijs to learn more.

Mitchell Herrijgers

Aug 2, 2023

How to scale event processors

A solution to scale event processor segments with the amount of instances currently running to spread load over all available instances.

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Mitchell Herrijgers

Jul 11, 2023

Help! I want to change my event store

This blog describes how to change your event store.

Mitchell Herrijgers

Jul 7, 2023

Why I regret not embracing Axon Server sooner

Hear from Mitchell Herrijgers, Solution Architect for Axon Framework on why he wishes he began using Axon Server sooner.

Ted Leendert Cock

Jun 28, 2023

Seven steps to reach your business goals with AxonIQ

Follow the seven steps in this blog to realize business value through the AxonIQ business value calculator.

Stefan Dragisic

Jun 21, 2023

Axon Server release 2023.1

Discover the latest updates and features of Axon Server 2023.1, including event transformation, forced client reconnection, and enhanced memory management.

Gerard Klijs

Jun 2, 2023

Axon Framework 4.8.0 release

New functionality with the release of Axon Framework 4.8.0

Marc Gathier

Apr 19, 2023

Introduction to Axon Synapse

Axon Synapse serves as the key to a multilingual Axon Server, and we have wrote this blog to help you find some resources.

Stefan Dragisic

Apr 4, 2023

Tiered storage cookbook

How to use Axon Server's tiered storage to find a good balance between speed and cost using real-world examples.

Christian Vermorken

Mar 21, 2023

High availability deployments with Axon Server

How to configure your cluster setup with Axon Server Enterprise because you want a highly available cluster?

Stefan Dragisic

Mar 20, 2023

Axon Server Release 2023.0

Axon Server 2023.0 has been released and will bring us new features like tiered Storage, ephemeral Contexts and a free 30-Day Trial License.

Stefan Dragisic

Mar 17, 2023

Tiered storage capabilities in Axon Server

Tiered storage is a useful feature that allows you to store data across different levels of storage media based on access speed and cost.

Steven van Beelen

Mar 1, 2023

Upgrading to Axon Framework 4.7 - Automated

With the introduction of OpenRewrite, migrating to Axon Framework 4.7 is made more straightforward.

Gerard Klijs

Feb 2, 2023

Axon Framework 4.7 ready to use

Release of Axon Framework 4.7

Gerard Klijs

Feb 1, 2023

MongoDB Transactions with Axon Framework

Since version 4.7.0 of Axon Framework, it’s possible to leverage the transactions API provided by MongoDB. This keeps projections consistent.

Steven van Beelen

Jan 26, 2023

Upgrading to Axon Framework 4.7

How to upgrade to Axon Framework 4.7

Mitchell Herrijgers

Jan 11, 2023

Optimizing Event Processor performance

Axon Framework, how to tune your event processors for optimal performance.

Milen Dyankov

Jan 10, 2023

Demystifying repositories

Repositories are essential components in Axon Framework. What are repositories in DDD?

Gerard Klijs

Dec 9, 2022

How dumb do you want your pipes?

Enabling communications between microservices can be challenging. One strategy for getting this ‘right’ is using smart endpoints and dumb pipes.

Yvonne Ceelie

Oct 18, 2022

Set based consistency validation revisited

We see that the actor model helps validate the uniqueness of a specific value against a set.

Milen Dyankov

Oct 7, 2022

Support for the `jakarta` namespace in Axon Framework 4.6

Introduction of the support for the `jakarta` namespace in Axon Framework 4.6