Messages vs Commands vs Events | Event-Driven Architecture 101
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?
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.
What are callback topics and when you would use them – Asynchronous design patterns
what are callback topics why you would want to use the callback topic pattern in your event-driven solutions
Developers not taking ownership, it’s your fault as a leader so stop bitching and take command
During my early days as SA, developers were coming to me regarding every small design issue which the leads or the senior developers should have been able to answer easily and design. I was frustrated and annoyed because the lead and senior developers were not taking ownership and the initiative. At first, my frustration was at the developer’s… Read More »
Google Chrome Tab Groups, a productivity booster
So Google in their last Chrome released an amazing productivity-boosting feature which allows you to group tabs together. If you are like me you end up having quite a few tabs open as you are navigating around your web-based Software as a Service (SaaS), like Jira, Confluence, Outlook etc. you will end up with quite a few tabs… Read More »
Back, after two years after going from a Developer to a Solution Architect
So guys, shortly after I published my last post “10 years as a Web Developer”, a Solution Architect position came up, so I went for it and got it. Was I ready hell no! Would I ever have been ready… maybe. But I went for it because it would propel my career. So for the last two years… Read More »
10 years as a developer
Looking back over the last ten years Today I have officially spent ten years working as a .net developer Getting into the game When I left secondary school, I originally wanted to go into the hotel industry, and I spent two years studying leadership and management in hospitality in college. However midway through my course, I decided that… Read More »
Docker: Peeking into a running container
Open up Powershell Go into a container: docker exec -it <mycontainer> bash opening files in a container: show file list: ls show file list: change dir: cd {directory} Show file content: cat {filename}
What developers need to know today
That is, what does a developer who has been working with .NET for the last few years need to know in order to get past an interview. (Recently I have been on the hiring side in interviews) Basic skills If in an interview you rate yourself a 7 out of 10 in your knowledge of c#. I would… Read More »
Microservices – My journey so far
After hearing the term “microservices” back in mid 2016 and reading up about the design pattern I thought, yes I want to develop microservices. Then in early 2017, I was given a chance to work on a new greenfield project. The project itself needed to be broken down into two different processes, but both processes would need a… Read More »