April 23, 2025
ServiceComposer contract-less composition request handlers
Recently, I started thinking about evolving the ServiceComposer user-facing API. I was faced with many options, leading me to analysis paralysis. I decided to start with a principle first: The feel-at-home ServiceComposer principle. This principle led me to introduce a new syntax that mimics ASP.NET controllers for defining composition handlers. This syntax helps users reduce the learning and adoption curve. Let's take a look, shall we?
All the new goodies in ServiceComposer
Thanks to users’ feedback, I enjoyed working on some new cool ServiceComposer features, namely endpoint filters, a greatly improved event handling API, and declarative model binding, which paves the way for a new cool feature in the works
Happy 20 years, dear blog
I’ve been blogging for the last twenty years, with ups and downs. Nonetheless, it’s a milestone to celebrate.
A small ServiceControl maintenance utility
From time to time, I enjoy writing code on the side, like an open-source project. This time, the opportunity came from a support case and the need to ease the customer's life in their daily maintenance tasks.
Someone says event, and magically, coupling goes away
I feel events are used too many times as a hammer to dismantle coupling. Unfortunately, it's gold plating. It might look better, but it'll fire back in the long term and cost more.
I gotta tell you: CQRS doesn't imply Event Sourcing
Too many times, Event Sourcing is presented as the natural companion to CQRS. That's not the case. CQRS doesn't dictate using Event Sourcing. Let's see why.
Mattox: simple, pre-configured NServiceBus endpoints
NServiceBus endpoints support only code-based configuration, which is handy and not always friendly at the same time. But what if we could plug in the superb Microsoft configuration extensions to configure NServiceBus endpoints?