What’s this “Producer/Consumer” thing? It’s around us, everywhere. Every time you see some kind of workflow with multiple serial steps, that’s an example. A production line in a car factory, a fast-food kitchen, even the postal service. So why do we care about it? Well that’s easy: in almost every...
2020, Feb 12 — 4 minute readThis is probably going to be one of my shortest posts. Just a quick update on the 8080 emulator I started writing a while ago. When I started the project I was working on a Windows machine. These days however I went back to my lovely Macbook pro. I still...
2020, Feb 05 — 2 minute read
And here we are for the third and last part of the Series! Last time we talked about the Outbox Pattern and it’s now time to see it in action. The main idea is to persist in the same transaction the Entity data plus the Messages that will be eventually...
2020, Jan 20 — 3 minute readWelcome back to the second part of the Series. Today we’ll talk about the Outbox Pattern. Just to recap, last time we discussed how the 2-Phase-Commit technique can help us with distributed transactions. However, it may lead to unwanted side effects and performance issues. So is there any other approach...
2020, Jan 13 — 3 minute read