Last week, we discussed an overused but applicable pattern: in-memory bus. This time, we’ll continue with the leitmotif and talk about… | Continue reading
I’m writing this article on Friday, and it’s about time to have some fun. As this is a programming blog, let’s have some fun coding. Let’s… | Continue reading
Have you heard about Passive Aggressive Events or CRUD sourcing? Or maybe about the Clickbait event? If you don’t, you better check the talk… | Continue reading
Folks, I’d like to inform you that I’m no longer a Marten maintainer. As you know, sometimes in the project’s lifetime, there’s a moment… | Continue reading
I’ve been going pretty down the rabbit hole in the last few years. What am I searching for? A way to deliver better software. And that’s, of… | Continue reading
Event Sourcing is a pattern that is quickly gaining popularity. Many companies see the advantages it brings, e.g. business focus and keeping… | Continue reading
Do you recall moments when you’re sitting and closing dozens or more browser tabs? Most of them are Google, GitHub, Blogs, and others. You… | Continue reading
Being busy is not something we strive for; it’s an axiom. Social media are not helping; our whole lives are on the plate. And we’re chefs… | Continue reading
In the last article and others I did my best explaining why keeping streams short is important in Event Sourcing. I also showed you how… | Continue reading
No one knows who invented Event Sourcing. I overheard that Hammurabi did. Why? Because he standardised the first set of rules of accounting… | Continue reading
Simple is not easy. Each person has its definition of it. For me, it means that when I look at the solution, I think: _“So simple. Why didn… | Continue reading
Putting the career bets is not easy; I made boring and pragmatic choices for most of my career. They took me far. Yet, I always felt that… | Continue reading
TypeScript is an intriguing language. Some say that its type system, by itself, is Turing Complete. Some take it to the extreme and even… | Continue reading
You’re reading much more code than you’re writing. Readability is a highly subjective term. That’s probably why some call what we’re doing… | Continue reading
Asking people for feedback is an intriguing story. I like to get constructive criticism for my work, as that allows me to learn something… | Continue reading
Cynefin’s framework states that we have four types of decision-making contexts (or domains): clear, complicated, complex, and chaotic. They… | Continue reading
Dune series has a lot of great thoughts. They’re more than just sci-fi books. Let me share one with you: Moneo: For what do you hunger, Lord… | Continue reading
When you’re angry, take a breath, take your time and then talk. So I did after I tested .NET Aspire yesteday. I hoped it could be a decent… | Continue reading
Knock knock? Who’s there? It’s me, Oskar, the end is near, did you know that? Ah, you know it but don’t know how to proceed? Let’s talk… | Continue reading
I’m feeling like a surgeon in recent days. Who knew that changing the connection management would be a delicate thing to do? I did, but it’s… | Continue reading
I’m always saying that the Marten community is one of the things that keeps me doing Open Source and staying in the .NET community. It’s… | Continue reading
The law to be forgotten and immutable data sounds like fire and water. How to remove data if you’re building an event-driven system based on… | Continue reading
We just introduced support plans for Marten, and here’s why. We’re really committed to providing tools that are accessible, safe and bug… | Continue reading
This year, we had the fifth anniversary of the Developers’ Doomsday. In 2018, on the 25th of May, the European General Data Protection… | Continue reading
Doctors Hate Her! Discover the Simple Trick to Lose Weight Overnight! This One Weird Trick Can Save You Hundreds on Your Energy Bills! The… | Continue reading
**I used to play football. I wasn’t talented, but still, I loved it. Football is a team sport, and playing is not the only essential part of… | Continue reading
I’m happy I didn’t have to use Object-Relational Mapping tools in the last few years. They’re solutions to some set of problems, but those… | Continue reading
One of the things that we’re learning too late in the Event-Driven approach is that we should have been splitting events into internal and… | Continue reading
I’ve run numerous workshops in recent years. It’s intriguing to see different ways people solve the same problem. Some start from general… | Continue reading
Having a single source of truth and data point is a sweet spot for running business logic. We check the data from one place and update it… | Continue reading
One team win is a loss for the other. For some people, money loss is a gain for others. In the same way, the challenging parts of Event… | Continue reading
Boom, I got this week such a nice picture from the Substack. My Architecture Weekly newsletter appears to have become the Substack… | Continue reading
I was recently asked what drove me to mostly use immutable data and methods rather than the Aggregate Pattern in my samples and videos. I… | Continue reading
One of the biggest pains in traditional software design is accidental complexity. We want to understand and reflect on the business process… | Continue reading
Coding is an underestimated part of the design. When we think about the design, we immediately fall to whiteboard diagrams, sticky notes, or… | Continue reading
Why did I name the testing library Ogooreck? Between my friends, I’m well known for my lame jokes. Ogooreck is one of them. Ogooreck is a… | Continue reading
I realised that I could do more to help you and other folks. I’ve been sharing online content for free in the last few years on this blog… | Continue reading
Continuing an effort to explain DevOps scenarios, today I’d like to show you a simple way to set up integration tests that I’m using in my… | Continue reading
If you’re not a new reader of this blog, you probably know already that I’m not so fond of the Will it scale? question. I believe that, too… | Continue reading
XUnit is not my favourite testing tool; I already mentioned that in How to set up a test matrix in XUnit?. To be fair, none of the .NET test… | Continue reading
Containerisation is something that pushed our industry much further. Generating immutable artefacts is a foundational aspect of the DevOps… | Continue reading
I’m a preacher for the CQRS, Vertical Slices, and Feature Folders. I won’t hide that, and I won’t even try. I believe that structuring code… | Continue reading
I’m a preacher for the CQRS, Vertical Slices, and Feature Folders. I won’t hide that, and I won’t even try. I believe that structuring code… | Continue reading
I noticed that we, developers, struggle to follow the money. And that’s impacting our design in the wrong way. Of course, we’re pretty good… | Continue reading
A diverse system with multiple pathways and redundancies is more stable and less vulnerable to external shock than a uniform system with… | Continue reading
InfoQ claims that it’s in the late majority adoption phase. That means that if you haven’t started to use it, you better start doing it, as… | Continue reading
cover I got a surprising question during my workshop this week: It seems that communication with the business is critical to make Event… | Continue reading
_ Our industry is harmed by the disease of “There has to be something more!” also called “The Holy Graal syndrome”.** Instead of trying to… | Continue reading