Architectural diagrams can be useful tools for documenting and communicating the design of a system. They must be self descriptive, consistent, accurate enough and connected to the code. Applying some guidelines can ensure the diagrams are useful to a variety…

This article explores ways to implement services which are long running and stretch across the boundary of individual microservices using event based architectures.

In this article Vijay Algarasan, a Principal Architect at Asurion, discusses how he and his teams have encountered microservices at various engagements and some lessons they have learned as a result. This has resulted in them building up a series of anti…

Test Impact Analysis speeds testing by predicting which tests need to be run for a change in the source code.

REST vs Messaging for Microservices -While these two mechanisms are most commonly used, they’re also quite different. In this blog, we review

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Starting with Entity Framework Core 1.1, you can now have properly encapsulated collections in your classes that rely on EF for persistence.

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Join Scott Hunter and members of the .NET Team as they introduce you to all the new features in .NET Core 2.0, our cross-platform, open source .NET. .NET Core 2.0 implements .NET Standard 2.0 which de

I dig everything that Paul Betts does. He's a lovely person and a prolific coder. One of his recent joints is called ...

In this article we peel the onion of potential architectural fitness of microservices in the context of Master Data Management, and the challenges a microservices-based architecture may face when solving problem domains that require compute-intensive tasks…

I had the privilege of dropping in Mads Torgensen's office to get a sneak peek of what might be coming to C# 8. It did not disappoint! Here are some of the things he covered: [05:37] - Nullable refere

During the last 2 years #microservices have grown largely in popularity, becoming a common architecture pattern for developing enterprise…

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An overview of Event Sourcing, it's pros, cons, and why it's so awesome