The team at Amazon Prime published an article where they explain their move from serverless microservices to a monolith, reducing costs by 90% and enabling them to properly scale their solution. Scaling that according...
How can a microservices based architecture, that looked great on paper, turn into a system that is a nightmare to maintain? Let’s have a look how well intended systems turn into a distributed monolith....
In the previous articles, I demonstrated why there is not really a need for priority queues. That is because the different messages likely need to be handled differently, both from the business- and infrastructure...
Once upon a time, I came across a question about a system that was designed according to the microservices architectural style. The question was about how to handle network requests across a scaled-out and...
Instead of deciding to which queue a priority message should be send to, a better design is where the sender has no knowledge of priority messages or any receiver. We can achieve this using...
See how to send messages with a higher priority using NServiceBus.
Dealing with higher priority for certain messages often requires more than just an additional queue. Read why and how in this article on priority queues.
Last year during Øredev I presented on how to deal with eventual consistency. Quite a few people I talk to, tell me they can’t use eventual consistency, because they can’t have people looking at...
BloggingAbout.NET as a (domain)name exists since December 14, 2004. As a community much longer, with the first article posted on October 21, 2003. It was called Wasabi back then, which brings back a lot...
In a production environment, it can be hard to diagnose logfiles and investigate if something went wrong. Especially in an asynchronous environment, where multiple threads are adding entries at the same time. It’s easy...
I just read a great article by Richard Wellum on Eventual Consistency and Concurrency in the real world. In it he provides two excellent examples on issues in the real world, that we mostly...
Dennis is an independent consultant and software architect who loves building distributed systems and the challenges they bring. What he learns he tries to share via numerous articles, blogposts, presentations and workshops.
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