Book Review: Game Theory
Every Very Short Introduction gives a readable evolution of the subject in question, demonstrating how it has developed and influenced society.
Gary Woodfine
Gary is Technical Director at threenine.co.uk, an independent software vendor specialising in IoT, Field Service and associated managed services, enabling customers to be efficient, productive, secure and scale-able.
Book Review: Bitcoin: Hard Money You Can’t F*ck With
Bitcoin is hard money you can’t f*ck with.No-one controls it. No governments, no companies, no central banks, no money printing. It’s a revolution as big as the internet
Going down the crypto rabbit hole
For investors new to the world of crypto, the scene in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in which Alice follows the rabbit down a rabbit hole and into Wonderland is a common analogy. Learning the technological concepts behind crypto can feel like stumbling into an upside-down world of make believe
Book review: The Bitcoin Standard
This book is about monetary value and history of Bitcoin. The author is a professor of economics. The book mentions how the Blockchain technology works, but it is more detailed on the importance of Bitcoin in terms of economy and finance.
Why I don’t like layered architecture for Microservices & API’s
Exploring why implementing the layered architecture pattern is not always a great idea when developing software applications especially when it comes to microservices or REST Based API’s
State Management using Dapr
Statement management can be a key aspect of any application design. It tends to cover a broad range data storage capabilities in your application, which may include accessing files on the file system or accessing a database of some description, with the purpose of manipulating the state of an object.
In this article we’ll explore how to create a simple state management microservice using dapr
How to use JSONPatch in .net core
JSONPatch can help update document resources in a very explicit way.
Product Review: Pure Evoke F3
Pure Evoke F3 review: This DAB radio with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi offers ultimate streaming flexibility.
C# Records – The good, bad & ugly
C# 9.0 introduces record types, a reference type that provides synthesized methods to provide value semantics for equality. Dive in deeper to understand what this means
How to use Github actions to build & deploy Github nuget packages
GitHub Actions enables the user to create custom Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) workflows in their GitHub repositories. Enabling the repository owner to write individual actions and then combine them to create a custom workflows of their choice for their project. These workflows could be anything that software developers would want to typically automate in their day to day processes.
How to implement cross cutting concerns with MediatR Pipeline Behaviours
exploring how to make use of MediatR Pipeline Behaviors to address cross-cutting concerns like caching, logging, validation, security and transactions
Understanding the difference between Queue and Stack Data Structure
Different types of data structures are suited to different applications and some are suited to to highly specific types of tasks. The most commonly found data structures most software developers will be familiar with are Queues and Stacks.
Book Review: Fundamentals of Software Architecture
provide an excellent overview of the various architecture styles providing clear rationale behind the decisions made by each of them and why they are better in certain contexts.
Book Review: Monolith to Microservices
A well-written book on the different problems that you are likely to encounter when migrating from a monolith to a distributed systems microservices architecture.
Product Review: KLIM eSports Gaming Chair
It’s obvious that KLIM have put a lot of thought into their product and their brand promise of Built to last. The KLIM Esports gaming chair is probably the best gaming/office gaming chair I have purchased
How my journey into Crypto world started.
The first post in a series on an introduction to crypto currencies, where I provide detail and the progression of my own personal journey into world of crypto.
What is CQRS?
Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) specifies that different data models should be used to for updating the database and read from the database. Command and Query are two operations which infer read and write respectively
Book Review: Implementing Domain Driven Design
Implementing Domain-Driven Design presents a top-down approach to understanding domain-driven design (DDD) in a way that fluently connects strategic patterns to fundamental tactical programming tools.
Book Review: Domain Driven Design
Domain Driven Design is an excellent book that draws on the experience of Eric Evans, a software architect with over two decades of experience building large scale systems.