What is the event publishing approach called write-aside, and why do you need to be careful when using it. First, what is write-aside?It is when a processor of a request or an event performs its main operation, like updating records in a database, and then afterwards publishes the occurred event to an event platform. Now because the two… Read More »
And will adding the async keyword to my .NET api make it asynchronous? No not in the sense of asynchronous architecture. let me explain. A Restaurant Analogy Let’s take a real-life example of a restaurant. And at this restaurant customers need to go to the counter to get served. In the first example, the server has NOT been… Read More »
Intro So you have learned (see my prevoius posts/videos) about the pros and cons of event-driven architecture, and you are still are looking to start your journey by either incrementally strangling an existing system or using EDA for a greenfield project. In this post, I will introduce you to the concept of a broker and run you through… Read More »
Web APIs SHOULD NOT just return a boolean, string or a number/integer value in the response body for any response. Take the following. If you have an operation which for a successful (2XX) creation operation, returns just the value of the new object’s identifier in the response body, like the below examples, then you are opening yourself to… Read More »
Event-Driven VS Request-Driven Architecture, User Registration Example (Pros & Cons) In this post, I am running you through two different approaches for implementing a user registration process to share the trade-offs, the differences and the advantages and disadvantages between the two different architectural patterns. Note – This post is the written version of my YouTube Post of the… Read More »
Six reasons why you, and your company should adopt an API first approach. And why they are critical to your company’s future.??
What are events in Event-Driven Architecture? In this post I will describe the difference between commands and events.
What are the benefits of event-driven architecture. I will be doing this by explaining some of the problems with request-driven architecture and how event-driven architecture solves these problems.