Andrew Lock joins us to talk about testing.  We started out by talking about should you test API/MVC controllers?  The discussion then turned into testing for messaging, databases, and much more.

Should you unit-test API/MVC controllers in ASP.NET Core?

https://andrewlock.net/should-you-unit-test-controllers-in-aspnetcore/

Andrew Lock

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James Hickey

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Derek Comartin

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Udi Dahan posted (per usual) a great graphic that points out latency scaled to how we comprehend it.  We add synchronous network calls to database, caches and other services without thinking of the latency it will add.

https://twitter.com/UdiDahan/status/1303694890992390144

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Derek Comartin

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Monoliths don't need to be a big ball of mud. Microservices don't need to be a distributed ball of mud.  James and Derek talk about striking a balance and how using strictly defined boundaries and asynchronous messaging can go a long way.

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Derek Comartin

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James and Derek discuss the .NET Community and the state of OSS including the .NET Foundation.  

What do they do again?

Are there more junior developers using Node.js? Are .NET/Java Developers just old and writing boring line of business apps?

Uber Engineering released a blog post of their current architecture named "Domain-Oriented Microservices (which was removed, then re-posted).  There was quite the buzz on Twitter about it.  Here are our strong opinions about what they are doing in comparison to Domain Driven Design and SOA.

The day we recorded the article "Introducing Domain-Oriented Microservice Architecture" by Uber Engineering Blog was unavailable. It seems to be available again:

https://eng.uber.com/microservice-architecture/

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James Hickey

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Derek Comartin

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What is CQRS? Is it all about complex asynchronous processing or is it simpler than that? When should you consider using CQRS anyways? Are there different ways to achieve the benefits that CQRS offers?  

Derek and James offer their strongly held yet loosely coupled opinions on these issues and more! 

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What's the state of third-party packages in the software development industry today? How do third-party packages affect security, maintainability & ownership?

James and Derek share their ideas on these issues and more!

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Derek and James discuss their own experience in dealing with specifications. They then move on to chatting about what makes for a good specification, who is responsible, etc.

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Derek and James talk about their experiences with code reviews. What's been difficult, what's work well and what are the main benefits to code review... and... what are they NOT good for?

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Derek Comartin:

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