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Idempotent Commands

Idempotence is the property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science, that can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application. When you click the “Place Order” button on magical unicorn e-commerce site, you expect your order to be submitted only once.  You also expect that your credit card on on the order you just placed shouldn’t happen more than once. There are different ways to handle idempotency at various levels of your application. Persistence Context is important.  In my context, I’m using a ACID compliant database (MySQL) for storing my current state. I’m also using… Read More »Idempotent Commands

Thin Controllers with CQRS and MediatR

I’m not a fan of fat controllers. One of the reasons I dislike having my core application logic in controllers is because I like using the web frameworks for what they are good at in my context. My context is usually creating web api’s. For me I use web frameworks as infrastructure that handles HTTP routing and endpoints Deserialization of input payloads Serialization of output payloads HTTP Headers and Status Codes Web Stuff (eg File Uploads) You get the gist, I like using it for handling the web.  Not for containing my features. If you have any questions, please follow me on Twitter.… Read More »Thin Controllers with CQRS and MediatR

Couchbase Linq Provider

I recently decided to use Couchbase for a personal side project.  The primary reason I chose to use it was because I hadn’t yet.  Simple as that. Again, this is for a personal side project where I try out different technologies.  The second reason was I was interested in N1QL (pronounced “nickel”) which is the Couchbase Server query language. I’m not covering installing the Couchbase server.  if you don’t have a Couchbase server installed, check out the offical docs. Couchbase .NET SDK The most obvious route for accessing a Couchbase server is by using the the official Couchbase .NET Client.  Looking at… Read More »Couchbase Linq Provider