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Blogs

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