Designing a Lightweight, Plugin-First Data Pipeline Engine with Akka.NET
Data Synchronization Everywhere Data synchronization between business systems is extremely common in real-world software projects. As organizations grow, dat...
System Design
Thinking in DDD: Understanding Entities, Value Objects, and Aggregates through a Crowdfunding Page
Domain-Driven Design introduces several important modeling objects in the domain model, as follows:
Page Splits or Hotspots? Choosing the Right Primary Key in SQL Server
All data tables in the project use Guid as the primary key. Most of them are randomly generated Guids, but quite a few tables use Sequential Guid. For exampl...
Thinking in DDD: Applying Ubiquitous Language to Real-World Financial Workflows
Software engineers need domain knowledge to build business systems. I’ve found that domain experts often explain processes but rarely define key entities cle...
Thinking in DDD: A Case of Moving from Code-First to Domain-Driven
The domain of a software program is the subject area of the user’s activity or interest that it supports. Every day, we solve problems within the domain, eve...
Thinking in DDD: Starting with Lessons from Projects That Missed the Drive
In this article, I’ll list a few of the headaches I’ve encountered in recent projects — some of which may have something to do with DDD. There were certainly...