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Roundup #43: .NET 5, gRPC, .NET Core 3 Perf, App Service Dashboard, Interface Default Implementation

I was away while Microsoft BUILD happened last week. After catching up, here are the things that caught my eye this week in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Introducing .NET 5 Today, we’re announcing that the next release after .NET Core 3.0 will be .NET 5. This will be the next big release in the .NET family. There will be just one .NET going forward, and you will be able to use it to target Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, tvOS, watchOS and WebAssembly and more.… Read More »Roundup #43: .NET 5, gRPC, .NET Core 3 Perf, App Service Dashboard, Interface Default Implementation

Roundup #42: Nancy, BuildXL, String Params, Rider, Infra Code

Here are the things that caught my eye this week in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Nancy 2.0.0 Pretty sure everyone has been using Nancy 2.0.0-clinteastwood in production for the past 2 years but regardless, official 2.0 release. Link: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Nancy/ BuildXL Build Accelerator, BuildXL for short, is a build engine originally developed for large internal teams at Microsoft, and owned by the Tools for Software Engineers team, part of the Microsoft One Engineering System internal engineering group. Internally at Microsoft, BuildXL runs 30,000+ builds per… Read More »Roundup #42: Nancy, BuildXL, String Params, Rider, Infra Code

Context is King: Finding Service Boundaries

Having explicit service boundaries is one of the tenets of SOA. Defining correct services boundaries is critical. I believe it’s one of the most important aspects of developing a system is finding service boundaries and it’s also really easy to get wrong. This blog series is intended as a guide for finding service boundaries within a domain for the system you’re developing. Finding Service Boundaries through Language Autonomous Services Focus on Service Capabilities, not Entities 4+1 Architectural View Model What’s a Service? Before I get too far ahead, I better clarify what “service” means to me so we can be… Read More »Context is King: Finding Service Boundaries