Batch Dispatch #1

Welcome back. Over the last few months, the Particular Slack channels have been awash with interesting links, thoughts, and blog posts. Here are the ones that bubbled to the surface.

🔗Building in resilience

In the first post in a series on refactoring towards resilience, Jimmy Bogard looks at an existing application and challenges us to think about how it should deal with failures.

🔗Long-running tasks, transaction timeouts, and messaging

Processing long-running jobs in a manner that provides meaningful user feedback is a challenging task. Mauro Servienti explains how to handle a long-running OCR process using a messaging architecture and SignalR.

🔗The end of Enterprise IT

Organizational structures are a common discussion point here at Particular Software. Mary Poppendieck explains how ING Netherlands transformed their structure to be flatter and more agile.

🔗Words matter

Creating software is an act that encompasses much more than just writing code. Weronika Łabaj points out that code just might be the easiest part of our jobs.

🔗People play a big part

While having lunch one day, David Boike had an interaction that led to some interesting thoughts about the business bits that surround an app.

🔗There are limits

We set limits all the time: Speed limits, work-in-progress (WIP) limits, circuit breaker thresholds, etc. Tyler Treat talks about explicitly declaring limits in your software and why that is especially important in distributed systems.

🔗Commute optional

Have you ever wondered what a remote workday at Particular looks like? Donald Belcham walks you through what his day is like, the tools he uses, and the problems he faces.

🔗Think of the children!

The engineers at Particular Software have talked about teaching our offspring to program on numerous occasions. We revisited the topic when someone pointed out this game-based approach. Honestly, it was for the kids…we swear.

🔗Async always surprises

Just when you think you’ve learned everything there is to know about async/await in .NET, something will jump out and surprise you. Szymon Kulec had this happen to him, and he reflects on how he missed it.

🔗Events in your system

Outside of UI interactions, many developers struggle with using events in their code. Cesar de la Torre takes a look at domain and integration events and how they relate to Domain Driven Design and microservices.

🔗You want us to pay how much?

Software pricing is a dark art. The folks at Reify talk about some of the things that they consider to be contributors to the final price tag that you see.

🔗See a need, fill a need

Most OSS projects are started because people can’t find a solution to a problem. Hadi Eskandari created this one to provide better support for Farsi in WinForms and WPF software.

🔗Building a foundation

Confused about what a service bus really is? Let Dennis van der Stelt give you a primer of the fundamentals of a service bus architecture.

— The team, in Particular