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Roundup #42: Nancy, BuildXL, String Params, Rider, Infra Code

Here are the things that caught my eye this week in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Nancy 2.0.0 Pretty sure everyone has been using Nancy 2.0.0-clinteastwood in production for the past 2 years but regardless, official 2.0 release. Link: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Nancy/ BuildXL Build Accelerator, BuildXL for short, is a build engine originally developed for large internal teams at Microsoft, and owned by the Tools for Software Engineers team, part of the Microsoft One Engineering System internal engineering group. Internally at Microsoft, BuildXL runs 30,000+ builds per… Read More »Roundup #42: Nancy, BuildXL, String Params, Rider, Infra Code

Context is King: Finding Service Boundaries

Having explicit service boundaries is one of the tenets of SOA. Defining correct services boundaries is critical. I believe it’s one of the most important aspects of developing a system is finding service boundaries and it’s also really easy to get wrong. This blog series is intended as a guide for finding service boundaries within a domain for the system you’re developing. Finding Service Boundaries through Language Autonomous Services Focus on Service Capabilities, not Entities 4+1 Architectural View Model What’s a Service? Before I get too far ahead, I better clarify what “service” means to me so we can be… Read More »Context is King: Finding Service Boundaries

Roundup #41: Apache Spark, Strongly Typed EntityIDs, Azure Workers, Automapper, NetCore3 Progress

Here are the things that caught my eye this week in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Introducing .NET for Apache® Spark™ Preview Today at Spark + AI summit we are excited to announce .NET for Apache Spark. Spark is a popular open source distributed processing engine for analytics over large data sets. Spark can be used for processing batches of data, real-time streams, machine learning, and ad-hoc query. Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-for-apache-spark/ Using strongly-typed entity IDs to avoid primitive obsession Have you ever requested an entity from a service (web API / database / generic service) and got… Read More »Roundup #41: Apache Spark, Strongly Typed EntityIDs, Azure Workers, Automapper, NetCore3 Progress