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Why every software architect is also an entrepeneur
I'm not sure when it happened exactly, but at some point this month while watching the new TV show Billions, it dawned on me: being an architect is just like being an entrepreneur, just without the huge financial benefits and risks. I might be wrong about this, or worse, I might be insulting our ...
Evaluating RavenDB as an embedded database
During the last two months of 2015, we've been evaluating RavenDB 3.0.30000 as an embedded database hosted in a Windows Service. We employ an architecture based on Command Query Responsibility Segregation and Event Sourcing architectural styles, but this post is relevant to anybody who wants to u...
10 more things professional software developers do
Since my last post about 12 things I believe professional software developers should do, in August, I started to take note of other behavior, skills, and characteristics I like or miss in the people I run into while working on complex software projects. Next to that, I received quite a few sugges...
Why I am abandoning GitFlow
Now that the number of downloads of Fluent Assertions is about to cross the magic number of 1 million downloads, and the library is quite feature complete, it is time to rethink the release strategy. Since its inception we’ve always used a separate branch for working on future features and improv...
An opinionated definition of a unit test
During the same C# code reviews that triggered last week’s blog post about writing great unit tests, another discussion tends to pop-up, in particularly with new joiners (both experienced and junior):
12 tips to write unit tests that don’t cripple your codebase
Over the last months, I’ve been involved in more and more code reviews, mostly because we’ve increased the level of quality required for code changes to our code base. While doing that, I started to track my most frequently used review comments intended to improve.