Being Cellfish

I came across somebody that was asking about how to test their code. They had a function that would do certain work at short intervals and t...

When you develop a service you will probably run into a situation where you want to put in some arbitrary large limit on something to preven...

One of the things I miss the most in Go is polymorphism . I must confess that the lack of polymorphism is one of those things that still an...

Once again I can just lean back and relax as somebody else already did my work.

Learning how to write "good" go code (in some definition of good) sometimes mean you need to unlearn old habits. This is especiall...

When writing Go code the general guideline is not to create interfaces unless it is really needed. A good example would be an interface with...

November 2008 had a lot of fun reads and I had a great time going over all those old post. But a few things stood out apart from the $1,000...

Earlier this week I spent a day following the serverless track at the AWS dev day in San Francisco. I guess serverless is the "new thi...

I've always been and advocate for intentionally ignoring the DRY ( Don't Repeat Yourself ) rule when writing tests if it makes the t...

Over the last few weeks I've been going over a few different ways to solve inter service communication. So which one is best then?

In order to distinguish pub/sub from message bus communication I will assume the pub/sub does not use another component to distribute the ...

Last week we covered request/response communication and now it is time to talk about the complete opposite; message bus communication.

Over the next few weeks I will cover a number of different ways to services can communicate with each other. First out is the classical requ...

Feature toggles can be used for several reasons. They can be used to avoid branching (for some people that is important), test things in pro...

Today I have to bring up a great article that is over a year old. They topic is what exception messages really should look like. As bonus I...

I think it was a few years ago when Netflix blogged about how each client had their own server component and how this made the client develo...

Historically I've always viewed repository objects as part of the storage layer fairly deep down. But I recently had an interesting disc...

While the concept of CQRS is fairly simple to explain my experience is that it takes some time to master. The reason is that there are a lot...

The microservice hype where every application that uses a service should be implemented as a series of microservices is a little unhealthy. ...

Almost 2 years ago I wrote about this problem with accessing data from Azure and returning it in a LINQ friendly way. Well not long ago the ...