True monoliths are difficult to change. But, difficult change is bigger than overcoming spaghetti code. Ask yourself, if you were modifying a couple of lines of code, how long would that change take to make it to production? For many organizations wi...
Keeping code DRY is a great concept in writing clean code. It reminds developers to write modularized that is easier to maintain. But taking this principle outside of code, can be dangerous. Taking it to architecture, infrastructure as code, and even...
I get it. I too often times want to find a problem to a solution I want to use. This mindset can be dangerous, especially with system architecture. Imagine being part of a small team. The team sketches a pretty microservice architecture like this If...
In a previous post, I talked about the huge learning curve for Kubernetes, especially for .NET developers. How could a team progressively start heading to Kubernetes incrementally? Did you know that you can deploy containers on PaaS? Azure Web Apps...
December 3, 2019 .NET Developers and the Path to Kubernetes Many .NET developers working on enterprise applications are feeling stuck doing traditional .NET web development; for example, doing WCF development, maybe some ASP.NET Web Forms, or a mishm...
Conventional wisdom tells us that we have to design big and plan for worst case - that’s how we prepare for the unexpected. When we release to production, that’s the first time our users will see it and that’s ok. It’s ok because we did all the cerem...
