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Roundup #47: Elastic APM, Miguel de Icaza, Microsoft.FeatureManagement, .NET Core 3 Progress

Here are the things that caught my eye recently in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Elastic APM .NET Agent beta Released We are proud to announce the beta release of the Elastic APM .NET agent! The version number of this release is 1.0.0-beta1. Back in February we announced the alpha release of the .NET APM agent. We received very positive feedback from the community, and we managed to attract lots of users already in this very early stage. Our base NuGet package reached around 20,000 downloads. Link: https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-apm-dot-net-agent-beta-released Careers Behind the… Read More »Roundup #47: Elastic APM, Miguel de Icaza, Microsoft.FeatureManagement, .NET Core 3 Progress

Roundup #46: .NET Core 1 EOL, EF Core 3.0, WCF OSS, Hidden Gems in .NET Core 3

Here are the things that caught my eye recently in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. .NET Core 1.0/1.1 End of Life Link: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/support/policy/dotnet-core Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 6 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 6 In recent months, a lot of our efforts have been focused on a new LINQ implementation for EF Core 3.0. Although the work isn’t complete and a lot of the intended functionality hasn’t been enabled, before preview 6 we reached a point in which we couldn’t make much more… Read More »Roundup #46: .NET Core 1 EOL, EF Core 3.0, WCF OSS, Hidden Gems in .NET Core 3

Focus on Service Capabilities, not Entities

One of the most common pitfalls I think I’ve fallen into is focusing too much on data entities rather than service capabilities. What tends to happen is building up a domain model of behaviors related to single entities. As I’ve mentioned in my post about using language to find service boundaries, you can have the same entity that lives in a different context, but that owns specific behaviors and data. This blog post is in a series. To catch up check out these other posts: Context is King: Finding Service Boundaries Language Autonomous Services 4+1 Architectural View Model Entities I’m… Read More »Focus on Service Capabilities, not Entities