Domain-Driven Design — There Is No Database Do not try to bend the spoon; that’s impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth: There is no spoon. The Matrix Again prompted by discussion on the DDD Yahoo list (like 15 years ago now!), …

Browsing through Medium and I came across an article titled: “How good is Your TypeScript? Interview with just 3 questions” (https://medium.com/@maksim_smagin/how-good-is-your-typescript-interview-with-just-3-questions-cecdce5ce4d4) As a significant number of the comments point out, the questions Maks asks developers are less than good — and in my opinion are very very bad. As I…

As a lifelong gamer, I have always been fascinated by the magic behind the games I love to play. How do they bring such amazing worlds and characters to life? How do they make me feel like I’m part of those worlds? I started in development by writing games in…

A microservice architecture structures an application as a collection of small, independently deployable services. Each service runs in its own process and communicates with other services through lightweight mechanisms such as HTTP/REST APIs. This approach has several advantages over a traditional monolithic architecture, including increased scalability, flexibility, and resilience. One…

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is an approach to software development that emphasizes the importance of understanding the problem domain, the business requirements and the users. …

Brad Wilson mentioned on the TDD mailing list (yes, those were a thing back in the day!) that the waste and inefficiency within the software industry was akin to the house building industry. I’m sure in some respects he is right, but in a more fundamental way I disagree. An…

Repost from 2010 — it sparked a lot of debate back then, and I am sure it is just as controversial now! CQRS has become another casualty of the buzzword culture and the cult of ‘shiny things’ What started as a collection of some reasonably good principles has now turned…

TLDR — If you do not have a really good use case for a global state manager in your SPA, you absolutely should avoid them like your app depended upon it Also TLDR, pretty much none of this applies to local state (i.e. useState() in React) In the React world…

The Tao of Domain-Driven Design Tao is often referred to as ‘the nameless’, because neither it nor its principles can ever be adequately expressed in words. It is conceived, for example, with neither shape nor form, as simultaneously perfectly still and constantly moving, as both larger than the largest thing and smaller than the smallest…