Going Deep Enough with Microservices

Moving from a monolith architecture to microservices is a widely debated process, with many recommendations and nuggets of advice available on the web in blogs like this. There are so many different opinions out there mainly because where an enterprise finds their main complexities lay depends on the skillsets of their technologists, the domain knowledge … Continue reading Going Deep Enough with Microservices →

Events vs Commands

In the world of service oriented architectures and CQRS style processes there is a tendancy for nearly everything to raise events. Going back a few years however, before REST became fashionable many interactions were by RPC and often the result of processing commands from a queue. So when did commands become an anti-pattern? Well of … Continue reading Events vs Commands →

When Things Just Work

A particularly tricky epic hits the development team's radar. The Product Manager has been mulling it over for a while, has a few use cases from end users and has scoped things pretty well. He's had a session with the Product Owner who has since fleshed things out into an initial set of high priority stories … Continue reading When Things Just Work →

Code Libraries and Dependencies

Nuget has made it really straight forward to share libraries across multiple applications. It's really straight forward. Just add a nuspec file and run 'nuget pack'. But before you do that next time, spare a thought for the poor dev who's trying to fit your library in their project among a dozen others when any … Continue reading Code Libraries and Dependencies →

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? →