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Microservices and the Database Collective

The Prime Directive So, you've taken the plunge and converted your monolith into discrete, single-purpose microservices. You've established a set of boundaries and service ownership that extends to the databases, so each microservice has its own little database. You've even instituted the CQRS model to separate your write operations from

What I Use - Visual Studio Extensions

This post is mostly so I can reference which extensions I regularly use. It can be a bit of a pain to try and remember the ones I don't use very often when I switch between my work and home PCs. It would be awesome if VS could sync my

Enum Support in MVC 5.1

MVC 5.1 introduced some really great support for enums as announced in the MVC 5.1 release notes [http://www.asp.net/mvc/overview/releases/mvc51-release-notes#Enum]. Given the following enumeration and model class... public enum Heroes { Batman, Superman, WonderWoman } public class EnumSample { public Heroes Hero { get; set; } } using

No, I Don't Want a Ticket for the Women's Luncheon

Women in Technology## Perhaps one of my greatest pet peeves is the term "women in technology." The hatred of this term began for me in middle school when the school's IT director set up an elective class titled "Women in Technology." She came to me explicitly and asked me to

The beginning of something awesome

After years of false starts, we have finally started a blog. The idea is for all of us at Red Wall to contribute and keep track of the things we are doing, or going through, on a regular basis. We will blog on a broad range of topics that we