21 August, 2008. It was a Thursday. Services are first-class citizens of the domain model. When concepts of the model would distort any Entity or Value Object, a Service is appropriate. From Evans’ ...

22 September, 2011. It was a Thursday. A long time ago, when I first started blogging with LosTechies, I wrote up a few posts on Dependency Inversion and Dependency Injection, and how I finally ...

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 ...

21 September, 2016. It was a Wednesday. This post talks about a little welcome time-saver and how we achieved it by using Docker. In our company we work a lot with AWS and since we automate everything ...

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 ...

19 July, 2016. It was a Tuesday. To help those building applications using the new Microsoft DI libraries (used in Orleans, ASP.NET Core, etc.), I pushed out a helper package to register all of your ...

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, ...

This post is part of the series about Implementing a CI/CD pipeline. Please refer to this post for a full table of content. Our company is a heavy user of TeamCity [TC]. We use TC for almost all our ...

1 November, 2015. It was a Sunday. Earlier this year I joined a development team which chose Entity Framework for the persistence needs of a new greenfield project. While I’ve worked on a few projects ...

So far we have only dealt with the repository interface. We have seen that we need exactly two methods, one to retrieve an existing aggregate from storage by it’s unique ID and one to persist the new ...