Dylan Smith

In the last couple of posts I talked about how larger aggregates make enforcing invariants easier, but smaller aggregates reduce concurrency conflicts.…

In the last post we looked at how aggregate boundaries affect our ability to provide consistency guarantees and enforce invariants across our domain…

Those who know me know I’m a pretty big fan of the CQRS set of design patterns. CQRS style architectures typically borrow / build-upon the DDD (Domain…

I’ve spent a bunch of time lately with clients helping them understand why their applications are so slow and how to improve performance. This often comes…

One of my favorite and most underused features introduced in VS 2010 was Layer Diagrams. It’s a really simple tool to learn and use, but amazingly…

Thanks to all the comments and feedback from the last post I think I have a better understanding now of the benefits of CQRS (separate from the benefits…

I wanted to give my take on developer metrics. I’ve read some posts by a few people out there (here, here, here, and here) that suggest that developer…

I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about the project management / tracking / estimation methods I use. Over time the processes and tools I use have…

There's been an interesting discussion going on in the TDD mailing list, discussing the benefits (or lack of) of using mock objects and mocking…