Concurrency and Feyenoord Rotterdam
I just read a great article by Richard Wellum on Eventual Consistency and Concurrency in the real world. In it he provides two excellent examples on issues in the real world, that we mostly...
Author: Dennis van der Stelt
What is a servicebus?
The first time I read about the concept of a servicebus and saw the images, I could not figure out how it was supposed to work. The abstract perspective is like any component could...
Microservices deployment
In the past we used to have monoliths. These were bad. Big balls of mud. Whenever we changed something, it was impossible to predict which part of the big ball of mud we might have...
SDN Presentations on batchjobs and microservices
Today I gave two presentations at an SDN Event in Zeist. An engineer (not the software kind) made a mistake somewhere and 5 minutes before the end of my first session on batch jobs...
Death of the batch job – NServiceBus Sagas
In a presentation for Blaak Selectie and Betabit, I presented on NServiceBus Sagas yesterday. How they can help develop your (long running) business processes better and how to get rid of batch jobs as...
#NoDeadlines
Delivering an immutable set of features, within a fixed deadline and with a set amount of developers. It was not unusual for the projects I’ve worked on for a long period of my career....
NDC London 2016 Distributed System Principles
In the eight fallacies, there’s one that says the topology never changes. Isn’t that covered by the other fallacies? Because we kind of try to use the network in a way that abstracts us...
NServiceBus Publish Subscribe tutorial
In this tutorial I’ll try to explain how publish / subscribe (pub/sub) works and how to set this up using NServiceBus. Publish Subscribe pattern The pattern in itself, I think, is easiest to understand...
Business Components as mini systems
In my High Availability article I mentioned business components and questions were asked in the comments, what these business components actually are. This post is a follow up to my previous post about the autonomy of...
Building reliable applications with messaging
Yesterday I presented my messaging presentation again, organized by Blaak Selectie and Betabit. Above all I had a really good time with a great audience. Some really interesting questions from the audience, showing insight into...
