Converting an ASP.NET Core MVC App to Blazor SPA – Part 1 (The Backend)

I have a personal expense tracking app that for the last few months I’d been working to migrate away from MVC towards more modern client apps whilst reusing the backend code and logic.

Building an Event Driven Architecture – Lessons Learned

In this somewhat of a long post, I will go over some of the lessons I and my team learned while building an event driven architecture at work, why did we build it, recommendations and watch-outs for anyone else thinking of doing the same. This is more of a field report from a real life environment so there is a generous helping of pragmatism around architecture and careful and deliberate avoidance of dogma and purism.

Reporting Model Validation Errors in ASP.NET Core 2.0

Couple of days ago, we had an outage in one of our production APIs that’s built with ASP.NET Core 2.0 and all we got to see in all our logging … Continue reading Reporting Model Validation Errors in ASP.NET Core 2.0

Using Serverless Functions to Build a Microservices Architecture

Seeing as micro-service architectures are all the rage these days, I decided to dip into it by building…

Building Domain Driven Architecture in .NET – Part 3 (Repository Design)

In part 2, I talked about my domain modeling thought process so this post is about trying to persist those objects for long term storage. Although the avenue for different … Continue reading Building Domain Driven Architecture in .NET – Part 3 (Repository Design)

Building Domain Driven Architecture in .NET – Part 4 (Application Services)

Application services can be loosely compared with the business logic layer of the yesteryear with one key difference, application services don’t actually contain any business logic neither they enforce any business logic.

You Ain’t Gonna Need That API

If you are not sure who this API is going to benefit and how, chances are You Ain’t Gonna Need It

Making Legacy Code More S.O.L.I.D

Its often assumed that legacy code should not be refactored because no one knows what worms are hidden in that can and what kind of monstrous bugs will be unleashed … Continue reading Making Legacy Code More S.O.L.I.D