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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cynefin’s framework states that we have four types of decision-making contexts (or domains): clear, complicated, complex, and chaotic. They… | 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

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

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

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

**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

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

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

Boom, I got this week such a nice picture from the Substack. My Architecture Weekly newsletter appears to have become the Substack… | 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

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

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

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

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

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

_ 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