ASP.NET 5 How to Easily Add New Bower Dependencies

ASP.NET 5 How to Easily Add New Bower Dependencies:

With ASP.NET 5 we have a new way to manage client side libraries, including JavaScript and CSS libraries. Prior to ASP.NET 5, out of the box, for client side libraries you could use Nuget or just manually download the files. Problem with Nuget for client side is someone has to maintain that list and there aren’t anywhere near as many in Nuget as there are in already maintained client side packaging systems. You can always manually download them, but obviously that leads to maintenace issues of keeping them updated.

Is a CQRS Command = GOF Command?

Is a CQRS Command = GOF Command?:

Oh the irony. The DDD community advocates for unambiguous language. And yet even our own terms are heavily overloaded. Whether it’s on stackoverflow like here or on the DDD/CQRS google group like here.

Monolithic Core vs Fully Microservice Architecture

Monolithic Core vs Fully Microservice Architecture:

Codeship CTO Florian Motlik​ wrote a followup to Martin Fowler's recent article about MicroServices. He mentions that you need to evolve your monolithic application to a monolithic core microservice to a fully microservice architecture and that monoliths as well, not only microservices, add operational overhead over time.

[VIDEO] A Look at Technical Debt: The Code Monster in Your Closet

[VIDEO] A Look at Technical Debt: The Code Monster in Your Closet:

What is Technical Debt? According to developer Nina Zakharenko’s session at PyCon 2015 Montreal 2015 last week, it’s the result of a series of bad decisions that force a developer to use more resources to accomplish less. So how do you address it and combat it? Tori Wieldt has the breakdown.

The ultimate programming language

The ultimate programming language:

One of my favorite bloggers had an article last month that resulted in a rather interesting conclusion; that the ultimate programming language is a language without a lot of features most developers take for granted. As I read the article I started to wonder how much was actually cynical since a language without all the features described at first feel ridiculous. However if you look at every one of the language features discussed in isolation there is a good argument for not using each one of the features so why not do without all of them?

Microsoft Forks Node.js to Support ARM

Microsoft Forks Node.js to Support ARM:

Node.js is available for many different platforms, but Windows on ARM is not one of them.  To address this gap, Microsoft has created its own version of version of Node.js which is designed to run on Windows 10 and support the ARM architecture.

DevOps: DIY vs. Commercial

DevOps: DIY vs. Commercial:

I've had the opportunity to attend a number of DevOps Days events. These are informal, community-based conferences devoted to a critical topic: how to get applications into production more quickly. DevOps Days speakers are always inspirational as they outline the immense challenges they faced and what they’ve done to improve things -- and the improvements are often dramatic. A common refrain in these presentations is how they moved to standardized resources like commonly configured virtual machines to allow automation -- often described as “moving away from snowflakes.” In other words, a necessary step in achieving automation is removing variance to allow common configuration automation.