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 →

User Secrets in asp.NET 5

Accidentally pushing credentials to a public repo has never happened to me, but I know a few people for whom it has. AWS have an excellent workaround for this by using credential stores that can be configured via the CLI or IDE but this technique only works for IAM user accounts, it doesn't allow you … Continue reading User Secrets in asp.NET 5 →

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 →