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  • Status fields on entities – HARMFUL?

    Figure 1: Introducing a batch job into a system results in the fragmentation of business logic
    Figure 1: Introducing a batch job into a system results in the fragmentation of business logic
    This article was originally published in NDC Magazine, no. 3 / 2014 It all started so innocently – just a little status field on an entity. Now, there’s no way to know whether it was truly the root cause of all the pain that came afterwards, but there does seem to be some suspicious correlation with what came next. Today, our batch jobs periodically poll the database looking for entities with status fields of various values and, when they do,… Read more
  • Looking back at NSBCon 2014 by Roy Cornelissen and Mark Taling

    A few weeks ago, Roy Cornelissen and I left for London to speak at the first ever “All about NServiceBus”-conference: NSBCon 2014. Coincidentally it was also a first time I would be attending a conference, ever! Needless to say, I was pretty excited…

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  • NServiceBus under a new umbrella

    Now much more than just a service bus, we’re introducing new tools for modeling distributed systems (integrated in Visual Studio), managing queues and messages, as well as for visualizing cross-endpoint message flows.

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