Every Saturday morning, you will get 1 practical tip on .NET & software architecture that you can easily implement.
Domain events are a powerful way to decouple parts of your system. Instead of tightly coupling your logic, you can publish events and have other parts of your code subscribe to those events. This pattern is especially valuable in Domain-Driven Design...
MediatR is going commercial. Jimmy Bogard recently announced that MediatR will adopt a commercial license model for companies above a certain size. For many teams, this is a trigger to re-evaluate their usage and possibly look for alternatives. And i...
If you've ever worked with a legacy C# codebase, you know the pain of an anemic domain model. You have probably opened an OrderService (all similarities to production code are merely a coincidence) and thought "this file does everything." Pricing log...
Event-driven architecture (EDA) can make applications more flexible and reliable. Instead of one part of the system calling another directly, we let events flow through a message broker. In this quick guide, I'll show you how to set up a simple event...
When you're building a modular monolith, it's easy to let bounded contexts grow too large over time. What started as a clean domain boundary slowly turns into a dumping ground for unrelated logic. Before you know it, you have a massive context respon...
I've been revisiting Sam Newman's excellent book "Monolith to Microservices" recently, and it's reminded me just how transformative this architectural approach can be when applied correctly. As someone who's implemented microservices in various organ...
Vector search is changing how we find information. Unlike old search methods that look for exact words, vector search finds content based on meaning. This makes search results more helpful and human-like. When you search for "quick healthy breakfast ...
Big changes are happening in the .NET ecosystem. Three powerhouse libraries - MediatR, AutoMapper, and MassTransit - are moving to commercial licenses. Not so long ago, Fluent Assertions also announced its plans to move to a commercial license. As so...
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that .NET Aspire is changing (for the better) how we build distributed applications in .NET. A simple way to think about Aspire: it makes all the difficult things in software development easy. .NET Asp...
