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Event Sourcing in .NET - Building fast autonomous projections

14 minute read

The characteristics of a great projection implementation Over the course of the last two years I’ve written numerous articles on the good, the bad and the ugly of Event Sourcing as well as on our experiences building and maintaining a distributed enterprise-class based on this increasingly popula...

May 18, 2018

Don’t blame the dependency injection framework

12 minute read

Over the last couple of months I’ve heard and read quite a few statements that say that Dependency Injection frameworks are bad things that you should avoid like the plague. In my opinion that’s just a result of rejecting something because it has been misused too long. Don’t get me wrong. I’ve be...

May 2, 2018

The Red Hot Developer - A model for removing distractions from your teams

4 minute read

When your project, product or component gets sufficiently big that it has a large impact on the rest of the organization, you’ll automatically get faced with lots of internal and external distractions. Other teams might want to get that pull request merged as soon as possible, all kinds of questi...

March 23, 2018

The Ugly of Event Sourcing–Real-world Production Issues

11 minute read

Event Sourcing is a beautiful solution for high-performance or complex business systems, but you need to be aware that this also introduces challenges most people don’t tell you about. After having dedicated a post on the challenges of dealing with projection migrations and how to optimize that, ...

November 1, 2017