Recent posts

About the ‘D’ in ACID Transactions

I just got prompted to write this in an email reply and I think it's worth sharing. My personal definition for ACID's Durability tenet is as follows: "The ...

Are you catching falling knives?

as I thumb through some people's code on Github, I see a fairly large number of "catch all" exception handling cases. It's difficult to blame folks for that,...

Going Home

After just over six years in the United States, our family is going to relocate back to Germany sometime in the second half of this month. Thanks to a lot o...

Sagas

Today has been a lively day in some parts of the Twitterverse debating the Saga pattern. As it stands, there are a few frameworks for .NET out there that use...