Sponsor: Using RabbitMQ or Azure Service Bus in your .NET systems? Well, you could just use their SDKs and roll your own serialization, routing, outbox, retries, and telemetry. I mean, seriously, how hard could it be?
I periodically enjoy working on side projects. Not just messing around, but a full blown side project that has some set of features that I think would be useful. I never have any real intent of releasing them so I don’t ever put too much priority on them. Usually what I take away from them are knowledge of new tools/frameworks/libs/patterns etc. Althoguh they aren’t always completely new to me, they may just be deepening my current understanding. For me these side projects go into three states:- I get really into it and work on it non stop for a few weeks.
- Once I finally get over the fun parts and feel like I stopped learning, it ends up sitting quietly in a half working state.
- I abandon the project completely because I’ve thought of something else.
- Go to step 1