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By Aman Agrawal Apr 4, 2023Apr 4, 2023

Systems Thinking and Technical Debt

In this post I will try to use simplified Systems Thinking modelling language to put technical debt in the larger organisational context with the hope that it will make some sense to everyone.

By Aman Agrawal Sep 14, 2022Sep 14, 2022

On Software Architecture Decisions, Evolution and Engineering

Deliberate and thoughtful architectural decisions that solve real business problems and mitigate enough of the real risks, is the RIGHT and the MIDDLE PATH way to go.

By Aman Agrawal Nov 29, 2021Apr 30, 2022

Some More Lessons Learned in Event Driven Architectures

In this post I present some finer grained lessons we’ve learned (a. k. a burn marks) since then having solved some foundational problems that surfaced due to not paying enough attention to the failure modes inherent in EDAs, upfront

By Aman Agrawal Jul 28, 2021Jul 27, 2021

Using C# Source Generators to Generate Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) – Part 2

Using C# source generators to generate Data Transfer Objects (DTOs). In the final part I will extend it to generate mapping methods.

By Aman Agrawal Jul 24, 2021Apr 21, 2022

Curious Case of Database Transaction Deadlocks Using TransactionScope

We built an event driven system in my team over 2 years ago that sometime back ran into database transaction deadlock problems which puzzled me enough to want to take a deeper look into what happened. This mini-post is a bit of documentation of that investigation.

By Aman Agrawal Feb 1, 2021Feb 3, 2021

Converting an ASP.NET Core MVC App to Blazor SPA – Part 3 (Authentication + Wrap up)

The central idea around Blazor auth is for the UI system to be able to query the authentication state of the user and render different views. Blazor uses AuthenticationStateProvider to query this auth state via the AuthorizeView component.

By Aman Agrawal Jan 28, 2021Jan 27, 2021

Converting an ASP.NET Core MVC App to Blazor SPA – Part 2 (The Frontend)

Given the fact that there is no shortage of SPA frameworks and libraries like Angular, React, Vue, Knockout ad inifitum, for building the new frontend app for my app, I decided to go with Blazor.

By Aman Agrawal Jan 23, 2021

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.

By Aman Agrawal Jan 20, 2021

Using Mikado Technique to Migrate to .NET Core

Not long ago we completed the migration of all our services to .NET Core. Of note was a mission critical full .NET framework legacy Windows Service and in this post I would like to share how we completed that migration.

By Aman Agrawal Aug 28, 2020Aug 31, 2020

Managing Technical Debt in Software

There are many posts and articles that expound the virtues of paying back the tech debt and philosophise at great lengths about the various design patterns that can improve the design of the code. In this post I’d like to tackle the more pragmatic and real life aspects around tech debt from my perspective.