Little Architecture Huddle

"If you are a developer that writes asynchronous code for composite applications in the cloud, you know what we are talking about, for everybody else Rx Extensions is a set of libraries that makes asynchronous programming a lot easier. As Dave Sexton describes it, "If asynchronous spaghetti code were a disease, Rx is the cure.""

"Datomic is a new database designed as a composition of simple services. It strives to strike a balance between the capabilities of the traditional RDBMS and the elastic scalability of the new generation of redundant distributed storage systems."

"Over the past decade, Red Gate has learned a lot, often the hard way, about the value of delivering software early and often or, perhaps more accurately, the cost of not doing so. Here, we explain what exactly we've learned and how we've adapted our software delivery processes, as a result. "

"In this walkthrough I'll guide you through the steps of configuring a development environment for Service Bus for Windows Server (Service Bus 1.0 Beta) and creating a simple application. This post is a condensed version of the contents from previous link. If you'd rather to read the whole document, you are welcome to do so. On the other hand, if you prefer a shorter version with step-by-step guidance, please read on! Throughout the post we'll also touch upon key concepts you need to understand to manage and use Service Bus. So, if you learn better with hands-on experiments, this is a perfect post (I hope) for you to get started. "

"The following tutorial guides you through the steps required to create a basic Service Bus for Windows Server application, and contains the following steps:"

"In my consultant career, no matter the kind of company I visited, from the tiny startup to the largest fortune 500 corporation, they all have in common to be entangled in spaghetti. Spaghetti means poorly structured code. Spaghetti means high maintenance and evolution cost. Spaghetti means frustration, friction and lack of motivation for everyone in the team. And often, spaghetti means project failure."

"I've heard (and used) YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It) quite often in my software development career. It's a battle cry for shipping a minimum viable product and letting the real-world usage dictate what new features and improvements are really needed. Generally speaking I think that this ruthless minimalism is a good thing. I think we've all fallen into the "pie in the sky" thinking about adding lots of bells and whistles to whatever feature we're working on. I for one also know the feeling of spending a lot of time on one aspect of a new feature only to later discover that no one really uses it. I like to think that, over time, I've begun to develop some sense of when a given feature is likely to be useful and when I should YAGNI it out of my task list, but then again I also feel like the more I know the less I know. Lately I'm finding that when I'm in doubt it's best to err on the side of doing less and keeping things as simple as possible."