Distributed Monolith
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....
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Priority Queues – Interceptors
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...
4+1 architectural view model
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...
Priority Queues – Publishing
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...
Priority Queues – Sender decides
See how to send messages with a higher priority using NServiceBus.
Priority Queues – Why you don’t need them
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.
Dealing with eventual consistency
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 is dead
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...
Adding correlation identifier to logs with NServiceBus
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...
Concurrency and Feyenoord Rotterdam
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...
What is a servicebus?
The first time I read about the concept of a servicebus and saw the images, I could not figure out how it was supposed to work. The abstract perspective is like any component could...
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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