TL;DR This post summarizes my work in building a small online shop for providing my Polish course for Master of Aggregates. If you're interested in modelling domains, Domain Driven and aggregates, you can check out my free short English e-book on this page. Not invented here syndrome The first that might come to your head … Continue reading How I built and run my e-shop for 0.7$/month using Azure Functions and a few more
All the optimizations that you can’t use
It's true. This blog post title is a bit sad. Still, it tries to show some cases that one needs to take into consideration when writing or designing a serializer. The article, as usual, assumes .NET environment. Dynamic for everybody! The first obstacle are data passed in a form of object. Don't get me wrong, … Continue reading All the optimizations that you can’t use
CosmosDB and its limitations
It's great when you can discuss advantages of a product. The even more important part to know is to know its limitations. What is possible and what is not. This post is not a rant but a short summary of a few limitations found during my recent investigation of CosmosDB. Partitions The partitioning is not … Continue reading CosmosDB and its limitations
Unexceptional non-blocking task-based flow control in .NET
This article shows in a simple way the foundation of libraries like DurableTask and its descendant Azure Durable Functions. It starts with the history of exception based flow control and ends by showing how Task-based API can be used to provide a similar interruptible flow with no abusive exception usage. Dark ages of exception-driven programming … Continue reading Unexceptional non-blocking task-based flow control in .NET
Performance in .NET as commodity
This post is a short summary of my thoughts related to all the awesomeness that is being introduced to the .NET landscape, especially in regards to .NET Core (see Performance Improvements in .NET Core 3.0 an example). It was somewhat inspired by Inertia as described in Wardley's maps Commodity What is a commodity? All goods … Continue reading Performance in .NET as commodity
Enzyme is open
My serialization project Enzyme is open for educational purposes. You can find its sources in https://github.com/scooletz/enzyme. If you haven't heard about it, in these two posts: post 1 and post 2 I described some findings and reasoning behind its design. Enzyme repository will not be maintained, it's just a snapshot released under Apache. To make … Continue reading Enzyme is open
On morning routines that work a bit differently
This is an updated version of On morning routines that work. One could say, another year, another change. And you bet, a lot of things have changed in my life. My current morning ritual consists of: mindful meditation expressing gratitude (3 people/things/situations) reviewing my calendar (I noticed forgetting things in there and not preparing enough, … Continue reading On morning routines that work a bit differently
