If you can feel a bad smell in the air, you can tell that something is rotten. The very same rule applies to sniffing out transactions spanning several entities to make a business operation complete. You may call these entities aggregates, you may call them Foo or Bar, but if transactions are wide, you're in … Continue reading The guiding smell of wide transactions
Good enough drawing for tech people
As you probably noticed, all the images that I use recently as headers for my blog posts are drawn by hand. They are not perfect, but still, they enable me to practice a little bit and to spend time on drawing instead of searching for a perfect photo with permissive enough license. I'm not an … Continue reading Good enough drawing for tech people
Channels, ring buffers and logs
If you're developing applications in .NET, you probably heard about all the new shiny part of the framework, like Pipelines which enable you to process IO-related processing with more IO awareness, still leaving your code on quite high level. Another part of the framework that is mentioned recently are channels that are used to pass … Continue reading Channels, ring buffers and logs
Aggregates, services, systems as cells, organisms, society
Does a team colleague reads your DNA daily? Do you know what's going on in your cell number A345BC345T343? Is there a single cell in your body that can ask your whole body to stop for a second? I hope the answer to all these questions is NO. Let's take a look at all these … Continue reading Aggregates, services, systems as cells, organisms, society
Wine, grapes and DDD
A while ago I sealed up a few bottles of home made wine (created only for oenology purposes ofc.) Somehow, maybe because of winter's time, my memory resurfaced these moments and connected them with something I'm working now currently, which is connected with Domain Driven Design. Is there any way the process of producing wine … Continue reading Wine, grapes and DDD
Top 3 books of 2018
It looks like 2018 was a really interesting year. One of the goals that I was able to achieve was reading at least 20 books. According to my GoodReads summary I read 34 which is not that bad, is it? I wanted to share with you top 3 books I read this year. As I … Continue reading Top 3 books of 2018
Summary of 2018
It's been a really intensive and interesting year. As we're getting closer to start the new one, it's a good time for a summary. Let me share a few most meaningful items that made a significant impact during this period. Morning ritual This year was probably the best so far in terms of keeping up … Continue reading Summary of 2018
