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Event Sourcing in .NET - Building fast autonomous projections
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...
Don’t blame the dependency injection framework
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...
The Red Hot Developer - A model for removing distractions from your teams
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...
Fluent Assertions 5.0: The best unit test assertion library in the .NET realm just got better
It has been almost a year since version 4.19, the last functional release of Fluent Assertions was shipped. Not because of a lack of feature requests, but simply because this new version has cost me all the private time I had. My main goal of this release was to repair some of the design mistakes...
Event Sourcing: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Just a small post to provide an overview of all the posts in this series.
The Ugly of Event Sourcing–Real-world Production Issues
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, ...