A Comprehensive Guide to Load Testing APIs with k6, Grafana, and WireMock. — Are you confident that your app can handle a sudden surge of users? As our products start to gain traction, it’s crucial to understand how they will perform at scale. Load tests can be used to simulate multiple concurrent users accessing our applications, so we can observe how they respond. …

A beginners guide to Event Sourcing and how to implement Event Sourcing in .NET using Entity Framework Core and MediatR. Event Sourcing is an extremely powerful Software Architecture concept, but it can certainly get very complicated! When people think Event Sourcing, they normally think it involves complex distributed systems with…

How to implement CQRS in ASP.NET using MediatR. A guided example using CQRS with separate Read and Write models using Enity Framework Core for Commands and Dapper for Queries. When people think about CQRS they often think about complex, event-driven, distributed architectures with separate Read and Write databases. Using different…

A comparison between the different types of CQRS architecture and how to choose the right one for your problem — Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) is a vast ocean of deep topics within The World of Software Architecture. It is often stigmatised with huge complexity, and many engineers are reluctant to dip their toes in the water. Some great articles talk through complex, eventually consistent, distributed CQRS system architectures that…

Some simple tips and techniques to help you write cleaner code today. If you are reading this article, the chances are that you write code. Maybe even quite a lot of it... Hopefully writing that code is something that you enjoy and care about. …

A guide to creating your first configurable .NET project template to supercharge your new projects. In modern day Cloud software we have tools and practices which make it quicker than ever to deploy our applications at scale. Unfortunately we still find ourselves writing lots of the same boring boilerplate code…

A breakdown of the benefits of using Event Storming for solution design and a simple guide to facilitating your Event Storming workshops — I have been using Event Storming across my teams for a while now, and so far, it has proved to be the most powerful tool for solution design and discovery. …

An opinionated ASP.NET Core solution setup for creating web applications using Clean Architecture and Domain-Driven Design principles. These days we’re cranking out more code than ever! Microservices, miniservices, microsites, (modular) monoliths… it doesn’t really matter what. We’re getting more and more standards, patterns and practices thrown at us on a…

A walkthrough of hacking a website hosted as a container by exploiting a vulnerability. We will break down the steps and see how to protect against the attack. — Many great articles and videos show how a Kubernetes cluster or container orchestrator can be taken over once a pod/container is compromised. …