24 October, 2016. It was a Monday. One of the nicest side effects of using MediatR is that my controllers become quite thin. Here’s a typical controller: Unit testing this controller is a tad ...

13 October, 2016. It was a Thursday. A while ago, I blogged about using MediatR to build a processing pipeline for requests in the form of commands and queries in your application. MediatR is a ...

21 September, 2016. It was a Wednesday. This post talks about a little welcome time-saver and how we achieved it by using Docker. In our company we work a lot with AWS and since we automate everything ...

11 September, 2016. It was a Sunday. In part 1 of this post series about Docker SwarmKit I showed how we can quickly create a cluster of nodes (VMs) using VirtualBox and configure a Docker Swarm on ...

note the last line declaring the ENTRYPOINT. The syntax I have chosen in the above sample is one possible way of declaring the entry point. An alternative syntax is using an array of words, i.e.

20 July, 2016. It was a Wednesday. Part of the release of ASP.NET Core is a new DI framework that’s completely integrated with the ASP.NET pipeline. Previous ASP.NET frameworks either had no DI or ...

The complex mappings had the biggest variation, but across the board AutoMapper is *much* faster than previous versions. Sometimes 20x faster, 50x in others. It’s been a ton of work to get here, ...

1 June, 2016. It was a Wednesday. In many of my applications, the UI and API gravitate towards task-oriented UIs. Instead of “editing an invoice”, I “approve an invoice”, with specialized models, ...

29 April, 2016. It was a Friday. A common question I get asked, especially around a vertical slice architecture, is where does validation happen? If you’re doing DDD, you might want to put validation ...

1 November, 2015. It was a Sunday. Earlier this year I joined a development team which chose Entity Framework for the persistence needs of a new greenfield project. While I’ve worked on a few projects ...

5 May, 2015. It was a Tuesday. CQRS is a simple pattern – two objects for command/queries where once there was one. These days just about every system I build utilizes CQRS, as it’s a natural ...

In my opinion Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) is one of the most useful architectural patterns when used in the context of a complex line of business application (LOB). Martin Fowler ...