Your org chart might be your biggest architectural constraint

Architecture mirrors how your teams communicate, not how the wiki diagrams say it should. To change the system, change the org chart first.

Microservices communications: Publishing messages to a bus in a reliable way

Learn how to avoid double writes, a common pitfall of microservices design

Course Release: Microservices Development on Azure with Java

Get started with building and deploying containerized Java microservices on Microsoft Azure with Docker and Kubernetes

Three architecture books I keep handing to engineers

The patterns and trade-offs in these books outlast every framework cycle.

Azure Resiliency Patterns: The Key Ingredient

What do we mean by resiliency, why is it so important for cloud systems, and what is it primarily based upon?

NIH: Reinventing the wheel is immoral

The Not Invented Here syndrome is a disease for the software industry. Learn how to spot it and prevent it.

Consolidating front-end asset processing in ASP.NET projects

Apply modern Building techniques to any version of ASP.NET

Building Angular templates with Razor

'Blending ASP.NET MVC with Angular' post series

A strategic approach for applying software design patterns

Knowing when to act is equally important to knowing when not to

[Book Review] Learning Microsoft Azure by Geoff Webber-Cross

Geoff provides an excellent starting point for creating sound and maintainable cloud architectures.

[Book Review] The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr

Rewiring the world from Edison to Google