Thoughts on software engineering, architecture, and the craft of building things that work.
Agile planning stumbles when teams treat the sprint backlog like individual to-do lists. By waiting to assign work until the moment it is started, bottlenecks disappear and the sprint goal becomes truly shared.
Hour-based estimates fail because they measure personal speed, not problem size. Switching to Story Points decouples the size of the work from the speed of the worker.
When AutoMapper announced its shift to a commercial model, developers were left wondering: What now? Should you stick with the last free version, pay for the li...
Imagine working on a massive project with multiple developers — everyone contributing code simultaneously. Without a clear plan, chaos ensues: merge conflicts, ...
If you’re a .NET developer building APIs, understanding async and await is crucial for creating robust and scalable services 💪. These keywords might seem daunt...
🌟 Introduction: Balancing Speed and Quality in Development...
When integrating legacy messaging systems with MassTransit, developers often encounter a critical roadblock:...
Picture this: You're deep into your project when you realize, 'Oh snap! I forgot to ignore the bin and obj folders!' Don't worry, you're not alone. This happ...
So, we faced a critical challenge: we couldn't risk losing messages by communicating directly with the message broker. Our solution? Implementing the outbox pat...
In the world of distributed systems, messaging plays a crucial role. But what happens when things don't go as planned? Let's dive into the Dual-Write Problem an...
MassTransit is a powerful framework for handling messaging in distributed .NET applications. Before diving into its features, it's essential to understand the f...
Remember when everything was packed into one big application? Those were the monolithic days:...
We’ve all encountered a situation where a commit goes wrong on a shared repository. In those moments, you need to undo the commit quickly to address the issue. ...
We’re all familiar with creating feature branches to add new code into the targeted branch. We know how to create feature branches, add commits, and push them r...
Every article I’ve seen talking about Delegates always starts with “what are delegates?” and continues like this: “it’s a way to pass methods to methods.” Altho...
I made many attempts to understand the concept of idempotency, reading various resources along the way. Unfortunately, each source only provided part of the pic...
