Introduction With the increasing popularity of SOA in the guise of ‘microservices’, circuit breakers are now a must have weapon in any developer’s arsenal. Services are rarely 100% reliable; outages happen, network connections get pulled, memory gets filled, routing tables get corrupted. In an environment where multiple services are each calling multiple other services, the … Continue reading A Helpful Circuit Breaker in C#
Month: June 2015
Building a Resilient Bidirectional Integration with Salesforce
blockquote {font-size: 12px;} 18 months ago I started building an integration between my client’s existing systems and Salesforce. Up until that point I had no exposure to Salesforce so my client also brought in a consultancy for whom it was a speciality. Between us we came up with a strategy where we would expose a collection … Continue reading Building a Resilient Bidirectional Integration with Salesforce
From Azure to Amazon Webservices
I’ve been building software with .NET since it first appeared and I’ve always been a fan. With the recent surge of cloud offerings I got right behind Microsoft and launched myself into the world of Azure without really considering the options too much. After all, my MSDN license gives me a stack of free usage. It wasn’t … Continue reading From Azure to Amazon Webservices
Why a Blog?
I’m a contract .NET specialist in the UK, husband, father, step-father, company director, ultra-marathon runner, and in my spare time I like to read sci-fi and watch my share of TV. The problem is that I just don’t seem to have enough hours in the day (or night) when I’m focused enough to do things … Continue reading Why a Blog?
Coding Daddy Dobbs 