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“Clean Architecture” and indirection. No thanks.

Entity Framework Core on the Query Side of CQRS… Or Something Else? Well, a video was posted on this topic, and a member of my channel asked me my thoughts. I started watching it, and I realized I was talking out loud saying “pushing clean architecture and indirection”. So, instead, I decided to record my thoughts and provide feedback. So here we go. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Review The video I was reviewing was EF Core In The CQRS Query Side… Or… Read More »“Clean Architecture” and indirection. No thanks.

How to seed a new Microservice with data?

You’re ready to deploy a new service but need to seed it with data from other services. How do you do that? I’ll cover various solutions to this common problem I often ask about. Stick around because I will challenge you to comment to provide use cases and why I don’t think it should be that common. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Local Cache Often, people want to seed a new service with data from another service because they’re keeping a local cache… Read More »How to seed a new Microservice with data?

HELP! My system is a spaghetti code mess.

If you’re frustrated working in a large spaghetti code system that’s hard to change and easy to introduce bugs, you’ve probably wanted to rewrite everything from scratch. The reality is that’s not likely going to happen. However, here’s how you can think about untangling the spaghetti code mess in smaller chunks one at a time, making it more manageable. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Spaghetti code People often refer to a spaghetti code when It has a lot of concerns intertwined, and because… Read More »HELP! My system is a spaghetti code mess.