MANY articles on a wide array of topics. You’ll find a lot of my newer content is going to my YouTube channel first, but I do still blog occasionally.
If you're an employee, you probably have a boss, manager, supervisor, or similarly titled person to whom you report. Normally, you figure it's their job to " manage" you, and your job to do what they tell you. But it's …
Domain models should encapsulate logic operations so that there is only one way to perform a given logical operation. That means avoiding exposing entity state and ensuring operations flow through specific methods. By …
When building a domain model, proper object-oriented design and encapsulation should be applied as much as possible. Some teams choose to intentionally create anemic models with little encapsulation, which can lead to …
Commands and events are two common types of messages used in distributed application architectures, including microservice designs. Sometimes message formats need to be updated. Which party in the communication is …
In Domain-Driven Design, Aggregates are groups of objects that are persisted as a unit, with the root object being responsible for ensuring the validity of the entire aggregate. But how should this responsibility …
Everybody in the software development industry understands that learning is important if you wish to stay relevant over the long term. But how do you do it?
If you're not already practicing continuous deployment, odds are your team and company would benefit from more frequent deployments.
It's often useful to include diagrams in GitHub documentation and README files. GitHub now natively supports the Mermaid diagram syntax, and will render the diagrams inline when markdown files include the syntax are …
When designing web APIs, it's important to think about how the data being passed to and from the endpoint will be structured. How important is reuse in these considerations, and how much reuse can you get away with …
SSH keys provide an alternate way to authenticate with many services like GitHub. Creating them on Windows is simple using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).