The other day I was participating in a conversation online in an architecture forum. One of the participants was complaining about the mess they were cleaning up from a team they'd joined. The team had, ostensibly, been following Clean Architecture, but the code they had produced was a mess. Their conclusion: Clean Architecture sucks. They...

In the fast-evolving world of software development, keeping pace with technology trends is both a necessity and a challenge. Companies and developers often find themselves making critical decisions about whether to adopt new technologies early (bleeding edge), wait until they mature (leading edge or cutting edge), or continue using older, more established...

NOTE: Watch the video above to see actual timings of starting with and without debugging. Vote for this feature request to make Run vs Debug more obvious in Visual Studio.. Thanks! I work with a lot of different .NET developers as a trainer, architect, and consultant with NimblePros. One thing that I'm frequently pointing out to them is the difference...

If you don't like reading, here's my YouTube video with samples that covers why these 5 rules will help you write better DTOs: What's a DTO? A DTO is a Data Transfer Object. Its job is to transfer data, and it can be used both to send data and to receive it. Often, data transferred will use different types (possibly even different programming languages...

As I'm writing this the Internet is out. When that happens, it makes it very difficult to work on development projects that have NuGet dependencies, especially when it comes to adding anything new to a project. A local NuGet server that kept up-to-date with my commonly used packages would be helpful right now. NuGet already has a local NuGet cache....

In the world of software architecture, finding the perfect balance between complexity and simplicity can often feel like an elusive quest. Developers and architects are constantly navigating the spectrum between traditional monoliths, known for their simplicity but criticized for their scalability and maintainability issues, and microservices, praised...