I get up very early to catch my flight with Alaska Airlines which leaves Austin airport at 7 am. I hate to be stressed and thus I’d rather be early than late. I arrive at the airport nearly 2 hours in ...

3 February, 2020. It was a Monday. This is a quick and dirty opinionated guide to setting up a Cassandra cluster with multiple data centers. This is harder and involves more work and more options, but ...

13 October, 2016. It was a Thursday. A while ago, I blogged about using MediatR to build a processing pipeline for requests in the form of commands and queries in your application. MediatR is a ...

note the last line declaring the ENTRYPOINT. The syntax I have chosen in the above sample is one possible way of declaring the entry point. An alternative syntax is using an array of words, i.e.

I find my self rather often than not in a situation where I have to trouble shoot a containerized application or a coworker needs some help doing so. In this post I want to show some practices how you ...

20 July, 2016. It was a Wednesday. Part of the release of ASP.NET Core is a new DI framework that’s completely integrated with the ASP.NET pipeline. Previous ASP.NET frameworks either had no DI or ...

1 June, 2016. It was a Wednesday. In many of my applications, the UI and API gravitate towards task-oriented UIs. Instead of “editing an invoice”, I “approve an invoice”, with specialized models, ...

In this post I am going to show step by step how to install a local version of Windows Server 2016 TP5 in Hyper-V and how to configure it to be a container host. It is still not straight forward to ...

29 April, 2016. It was a Friday. A common question I get asked, especially around a vertical slice architecture, is where does validation happen? If you’re doing DDD, you might want to put validation ...

27 January, 2016. It was a Wednesday. The Fixie test framework has been in production use for over a year now, and I’ve had a chance to work with it on a number of real world projects as well as a ...

21 January, 2016. It was a Thursday. As I work towards the 4.2 release of AutoMapper, I got a little inspiration. Over the past year or so I’ve given some talks/podcasts about a long-lived open source ...

3 August, 2015. It was a Monday. These days everybody wants to try new ideas as quickly as possible in the market. We want to see whether or not our customers like a new feature. If yes then we want ...