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...
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...
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...
Microservices deployment
In the past we used to have monoliths. These were bad. Big balls of mud. Whenever we changed something, it was impossible to predict which part of the big ball of mud we might have...
Death of the batch job – NServiceBus Sagas
In a presentation for Blaak Selectie and Betabit, I presented on NServiceBus Sagas yesterday. How they can help develop your (long running) business processes better and how to get rid of batch jobs as...
NDC Oslo talk on duplicating vs replicating data in microservices
Just my luck, my session at NDC Oslo 2015 wasn’t recorded properly. During the session the microphone went dead and the replacement was apparently never recorded. The idea of my session was to get...
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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