The other day, while pairing up on some unit test, I started to realize that I generally have three modes of looking at my unit tests. The Writing Mode While writing, I mostly focus on the mechanics of getting the test to pass. By then, I usually have a mental model and a particular scenario in ...
A couple of months ago I shared some tips & tricks to help you prevent ending up in NuGet dependency hell. As a big fan of the SOLID principles, I've always wondered why nobody thought of applying these principles on the package level. If SOLID can help you to build cohesive, loosely coupled ...
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...
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...
During this year's QCon conference held in New York, I attended a full-day workshop on the scalability challenges a growing organization faces, hosted by Randy Shoup. In my previous two posts I discussed a model to understand the needs of an organization in its different life phases, as well as a...
During this year's QCon conference held in New York, I attended a full-day workshop on the scalability challenges a growing organization faces, hosted by Randy Shoup. In my previous post, I elaborated on Randy's classification system to illustrate the phases of a growing organization and how that...
The characteristics of a growing organizationDuring this year's QCon conference held in New York, I attended a full-day workshop on the scalability challenges a growing organization faces, hosted by Randy Shoup. Randy explained us how every start-up goes through several phases, each with a differ...
After attending a full-day track with multiple sessions and open-spaces on microservices at QCon New York, it is clear that this technique took flight since I first heard about that at the same conference in 2014. A lot of companies made the jump to solve their technical and organizational scalin...
While visiting QCon New York this year, I realized that a lot of the architectural problems that were discussed there could benefit from the Event Sourcing architecture style. Since I've been in charge of architecting such a system for several years now, I started to reflect on the work we've don...
While visiting QCon New York this year, I realized that a lot of the architectural problems that were discussed there could benefit from the Event Sourcing architecture style. Since I've been in charge of architecting such a system for several years now, I started to reflect on the work we've don...