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The Good of Event Sourcing - Conflict Handling, Replication and Domain Evolution

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Event Sourcing is a brilliant solution for high-performance or complex business systems, but you need to be aware that this also introduces challenges most people don't tell you about. In @June, I already blogged about the things I would do differently next time. But after attending another intro...

February 19, 2017

The Good of Event Sourcing - Projections

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It was in 2009 in Utrecht, The Netherlands, when I first learned about Event Sourcing and the Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) patterns at a training Greg Young gave there. I remembered to be awed by the scalability and architectural simplicity those styles provided. However, I als...

February 11, 2017

The magic of keeping a band of developers together

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As I work as a consultant for Aviva Solutions, and the nature of my job is to be involved in moderately long-running client projects, I don't get to come to the office that often. And if I do, it's on different days of the week. Over the last year so, our locations in Koudekerk aan de Rijn and Ei...

October 6, 2016

Continuous Delivery within the .NET realm

7 minute read

Continuous what? Well, if you browse the internet regularly, you will encounter two different terms that are used rather inconsistently: Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment. In my words, Continuous Delivery is a collection of various techniques, principles and tools that allow you to d...

August 30, 2016