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Derek Comartin

Design Patterns for Building Resilient Systems

When the CrowdStrike incident happened, I was alarmed and notified of a degrading performance in parts of our system. That’s because we were indirectly impacted. I will provide some thoughts about how specific design patterns allow you to build resilient systems, allowing you to keep your system alive and online. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Fallbacks I mentioned indirectly, and that’s because I’m not a CrowdStrike customer, so I wasn’t directly affected. However, I was indirectly impacted because I leveraged third-party services that… Read More »Design Patterns for Building Resilient Systems

Vertical Slice Architecture isn’t technical

Migrate to a Vertical Slice Architecture from a monolith? Is it more like microservices? Does it replace Clean Architecture? None of the above. It’s about being driven by cohesion of business capabilities and business processes. It has nothing to do with layers or physical deployment concerns. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Vertical Slice Architecture Vertical Slice Architecture has everything to do with business capabilities and nothing to do with a monolith, microservices, clean architecture, or hexagonal imports and adapters. It’s all about defining… Read More »Vertical Slice Architecture isn’t technical

.NET Framework Migration to .NET9

Have a large .NET Framework codebase that you want to migrate to .NET8 or beyond? Here’s some tips of my .NET Framework migration and things to consider. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Introduction to the Migration Journey My journey of migrating a large codebase from .NET Framework to .NET 9 and beyond was not just a technical challenge; it was about long-term strategy and planning. The need for improved performance, scalability, and modern development tools is what drove the goal of migration. Before… Read More ».NET Framework Migration to .NET9