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Derek Comartin

Outbox Pattern: Reliably Save State & Publish Events

What’s the Outbox Pattern? A reliable way of saving state to your database and publishing a message/event to a message broker. Why do you need it? When you get into messaging, you will often find code that needs to save state to your database, and then publish a message/event to a message broker. Unfortunately, because they are two different resources, you need a distributed transaction to make these atomic. There is another option to use the Outbox Pattern which does not require a distributed transaction and most messaging libraries support it. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I post… Read More »Outbox Pattern: Reliably Save State & Publish Events

The Complexity of Caching

Caching ain’t easy! There are many factors that add to the complexity of caching. My general recommendation is to avoid caching if you can. However, caching can bring performance and scaling which you might need. If you’re starting to use a cache in your system here are some things to think about. Adding a cache isn’t that trivial and requires some thought about caching strategies, how to invalidate, and fallbacks to your database. Caching can improve performance and scalability, but can also bring your entire system down if it’s failing. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I post all… Read More »The Complexity of Caching

Talking C# Performance with Steve Gordon

We’re talking C# Performance! I sat down and chatted with Steve Gordon to talk about writing performant C# code. When should you be concerned about performance? Does your application code need to be performant? At what cost to readability? How do you measure and test that you’re changes are useful? Steve and I cover all of this in this video. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I post all kinds of content that accompanies my posts including this video showing everything that is in this post. When to think about optimizing? As Steve mentions, it’s easy to get really… Read More »Talking C# Performance with Steve Gordon