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Event Sourcing from the Trenches: Domain Events
While visiting QCon New York this year, I realized that a lot of the architectural problems that were discussed there, could benefit from the Event Sourcing architecture style. Since I've been in charge of architecting such a system for several years now, I started to reflect on the work we've do...
Event Sourcing from the Trenches: Aggregates
While visiting QCon New York this year, I realized that a lot of the architectural problems that were discussed there could benefit from the Event Sourcing architecture style. Since I've been in charge of architecting such a system for several years now, I started to reflect on the work we've don...
How to optimize your culture for learning, growth and collaboration
At the first day of QCon New York, I attended several talks and open-spaces that had some relation with culture, be it about improving the efficiency of developers, handling disagreement in respectful way, and creating an environment that embraces the learning experience. For instance, one of th...
A Git collaboration workflow that provides feedback early and fast
At Aviva Solutions, we’ve been using Git for a little of over two years now and I can wholeheartedly say that after having worked with TFS for years, we’ll never go back… ever. But with any new technology, practice or methodology, you need to go through several cycles before you find a way that w...
How to get the best performance out of NHibernate (and when not to use it at all)
Use the right tool for the right problem A very common sentiment I'm getting from the .NET community is the aversion against object-relational mappers like NHibernate and Entity Framework. Granted, if I could, I would use an (embeddable) NoSQL solution like RavenDB myself. They remove the object-...
The magic of hiding your NuGet dependencies
Welcome to the dependency hell While working on a little open-source demo project, I ran into that well-known challenge of NuGet dependency management again. This little project results in a NuGet package, that on itself also relies on other packages. Now, if I would just add those dependencies ...