SDN Event June 14th
For SDN Event of June 14th I did two presentations Transactions Why are transactions the bottleneck of so many applications? Why isn’t the database always consistent, even though we use transactions? This session explains...
Dennis van der Stelt Blog
The comparison between software development and construction fails
We’ve all seen the comparison between development work and constructing buildings. I think the comparison is fundamentally flawed. There are numerous posts out in the world that confirm this. Random Google articles are here,...
SDN Event March 18th
For March 18th I did two presentations Data replication or data duplication As systems are growing bigger and more complex, we are looking for different ways to work with data. An example of this...
Colored console tracelistener for Enterprise Library 5.0
At work we’ve been using Enterprise Library for quite some time. A new colleague came in a few months ago and he’s apparently in love with log4net. And I’ve been proving over and over...
Databases and coupling
We probably all learned this at school. When you build software, you analyze requirements, find the nouns and build an entity-relationship model, an ERD. You start with the first normal form and normalize the...
Bing Maps on WPF and custom PushPin tutorial for PixelSense
I’ve just came back from a trip to Washington DC, where I’ve been at the 50th IAM International Moving Annual Meeting. This was for my employer TellUs, who’s into lead generation for international removal...
High availability
We’ve had a lot of success applying the principles and practices of the Advanced Distributed Systems Design course into our project and Udi Dahan asked if I could shed some more light on how...
The 11th Fallacy of Enterprise Computing
This is an old article by Ted Neward that I’ve been trying to find for ages, as the original website isn’t online anymore. Until I remember the WayBackMachine and found the original article. As...
What is messaging
I’ve written in SDN Magazine about messaging and how it relates to RPC. It isn’t about messaging vs. RPC, but more or less an attempt to explain what benefits messaging can add to your...
CQRS Journey taking community contributions
Microsoft Patterns & Practices team has started a journey to CQRS with the idea to create a guidance document to provide developers with a map that will help them find a way with the...
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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