The Loosely Coupled Show

James and Derek discuss various domains and projects that they have worked on in their careers. #softwarearchitecture #softwaredevelopers #softwarepodcast

We chatted with AsyncAPI founder Fran Méndez about what AsyncAPI is, where it came from, and its new partnership with Postman. Fran Méndez https://twitter.com/fmvilas https://www.asyncapi.com https://asyncapi.com/slack-invite James Hickey https://twitter.com/jamesmh_dev https://www.jamesmichaelhickey.com/ Derek Comartin https://twitter.com/codeopinion https://codeopinion.com

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We talk a bit about CAP Theorem in regards to Microservices. When partitions occur, do systems lean towards Consistency or Availability? With autonomy, should you even care? James Hickey https://twitter.com/jamesmh_dev https://www.jamesmichaelhickey.com/ Derek Comartin https://twitter.com/codeopinion https://codeopinion.com

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Event Modeling is a method of describing systems using an example of how information has changed within them over time. Specifically this omits transient details and looks at what is durably stored and what the user sees at any particular point in time. These are the events on the timeline that form the description of the system. Adam Dymitruk https://twitter.com/adymitruk https://www.adaptechgroup.com/ https://eventmodeling.org/ James...

Just saying "event" doesn't mean much without context. There's so many meanings and how you can use events in a distributed system. Domain Events, Integration Events, Event Sourcing, Thin Events, Fat Events, Event Carried State Transfer.... the list goes on. James Hickey https://twitter.com/jamesmh_dev https://www.jamesmichaelhickey.com/ Derek Comartin https://twitter.com/codeopinion https://codeopinion.com

Are you on the Blazor train? Some of us are hesitant with scars from the past, even though they might not be warranted. Andrew Lock https://andrewlock.net https://twitter.com/andrewlocknet James Hickey https://twitter.com/jamesmh_dev https://www.jamesmichaelhickey.com/ Derek Comartin https://twitter.com/codeopinion https://codeopinion.com

Andrew Lock talks about his experience with both RabbitMQ to Kafka. The challenges with RabbitMQ and how they were solved by moving to Kafka. Andrew Lock https://andrewlock.net https://twitter.com/andrewlocknet James Hickey https://twitter.com/jamesmh_dev https://www.jamesmichaelhickey.com/ Derek Comartin https://twitter.com/codeopinion https://codeopinion.com

Andrew Lock joins us to talk about testing. We started out by talking about should you test API/MVC controllers? The discussion then turned into testing for messaging, databases, and much more. Should you unit-test API/MVC controllers in ASP.NET Core? https://andrewlock.net/should-you-unit-test-controllers-in-aspnetcore/ Andrew Lock https://andrewlock.net https://twitter.com/andrewlocknet James Hickey https://twitter.com/jamesmh_dev https://www.jamesmichaelhickey.com/ Derek...

Udi Dahan posted (per usual) a great graphic that points out latency scaled to how we comprehend it. We add synchronous network calls to database, caches and other services without thinking of the latency it will add. https://twitter.com/UdiDahan/status/1303694890992390144 🔔 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNX9EQV4aEfa6fa9o6qcdEQ?sub_confirmation=1 James Hickey https://twitter.com/jamesmh_dev https://www.jamesmichaelhickey.com/ Derek...

Monoliths don't need to be a big ball of mud. Microservices don't need to be a distributed ball of mud. James and Derek talk about striking a balance and how using strictly defined boundaries and asynchronous messaging can go a long way. James Hickey https://twitter.com/jamesmh_dev https://www.jamesmichaelhickey.com/ Derek Comartin https://twitter.com/codeopinion https://codeopinion.com

James and Derek discuss the .NET Community and the state of OSS including the .NET Foundation. What do they do again?

Are there more junior developers using Node.js? Are .NET/Java Developers just old and writing boring line of business apps?

Uber Engineering released a blog post of their current architecture named "Domain-Oriented Microservices (which was removed, then re-posted). There was quite the buzz on Twitter about it. Here are our strong opinions about what they are doing in comparison to Domain Driven Design and SOA. The day we recorded the article "Introducing Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture" by Uber Engineering Blog was unavailable. It seems to be available...

What is CQRS? Is it all about complex asynchronous processing or is it simpler than that? When should you consider using CQRS anyways? Are there different ways to achieve the benefits that CQRS offers? Derek and James offer their strongly held yet loosely coupled opinions on these issues and more! James Hickey: - https://twitter.com/jamesmh_dev - https://www.jamesmichaelhickey.com/ Derek Comartin - https://twitter.com/codeopinion - https://codeopinion.com

What's the state of third-party packages in the software development industry today? How do third-party packages affect security, maintainability & ownership? James and Derek share their ideas on these issues and more! James Hickey: https://twitter.com/jamesmh_dev https://www.jamesmichaelhickey.com/ Derek Comartin: https://twitter.com/codeopinion https://codeopinion.com

Derek and James discuss their own experience in dealing with specifications. They then move on to chatting about what makes for a good specification, who is responsible, etc. James Hickey: https://twitter.com/jamesmh_dev https://www.jamesmichaelhickey.com/ Derek Comartin: https://twitter.com/codeopinion https://codeopinion.com

Derek and James talk about their experiences with code reviews. What's been difficult, what's work well and what are the main benefits to code review... and... what are they NOT good for? James Hickey: https://twitter.com/jamesmh_dev https://www.jamesmichaelhickey.com/ Derek Comartin: https://twitter.com/codeopinion https://codeopinion.com