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How Git can help you prevent building a monolith
During last weeks' Git Like a Pro talk I tried to convey the message that switching to Git is much more than introducing a new source control system. It will affect not just the way you commit source code, branch or merge, it changes the entire development workflow. In fact, I'm willing to claim ...
Why C#’s “var” keyword can hamper maintainability
Coding conventions never cease to be a great source for heated debates. However, within the C# realm, two specific topics tend to reappear occasionally. The first one is about whether or not to use underscores for class fields (but I'm not going to discuss that here). The other one is the usage o...
Why every software architect is also an entrepeneur
I'm not sure when it happened exactly, but at some point this month while watching the new TV show Billions, it dawned on me: being an architect is just like being an entrepreneur, just without the huge financial benefits and risks. I might be wrong about this, or worse, I might be insulting our ...
Evaluating RavenDB as an embedded database
During the last two months of 2015, we've been evaluating RavenDB 3.0.30000 as an embedded database hosted in a Windows Service. We employ an architecture based on Command Query Responsibility Segregation and Event Sourcing architectural styles, but this post is relevant to anybody who wants to u...
10 more things professional software developers do
Since my last post about 12 things I believe professional software developers should do, in August, I started to take note of other behavior, skills, and characteristics I like or miss in the people I run into while working on complex software projects. Next to that, I received quite a few sugges...
Why I am abandoning GitFlow
Now that the number of downloads of Fluent Assertions is about to cross the magic number of 1 million downloads, and the library is quite feature complete, it is time to rethink the release strategy. Since its inception we’ve always used a separate branch for working on future features and improv...