Domain Driven Design

Why Domain Driven Design

Feature Image by Overview of Domain-Driven Design. Source The DDD Community 2019, pp 6. This is my understanding of the importance of DDD having read books and articles and attended courses on it and also having how projects can get really complex over time and unmaintainable with little knowledge of the domain from personal experience. How does software development look like? Software development is a very unique profession. You almost always create software to solve a real world problem in a very specific domain....

April 8, 2021 · 12 min · 2403 words · eakangk
Versioning

Web API Versioning

Back-end developers quite often find themselves thinking about making breaking changes to their API. A change that could break the client application consuming the API. We quite often forget how easy it is to cause havoc for our clients by breaking the contract we agreed between front-end and back-end. All sorts of unintentional consequences could arise from this. We recently had a similar conversation at my workplace about how we wanted to deal with the release of a feature we had been working on in the last sprint....

March 12, 2021 · 1 min · 206 words · eakangk
Azure Functions

Azure Functions - Overview and tutorial

I have been building and deploying Azure functions at work and it is really exciting. However, due to the time constraints, we often have to learn just enough to build the solution. And this makes me sad 😢 because I like learning things in depth and understanding every detail. So my solution was to create a tutorial with information to help anyone understand Azure Functions. So I created a github repository just for this....

January 24, 2021 · 1 min · 207 words · eakangk
C#

Quirky Arrays in C#

I have been coding in C# on and off since the end of 2013. You might be wondering why I mentioned that here though. The reason is that, a large part of that time especially between 2015 to 2021, I was pretty much managing a team, rather than coding full-time. Now, does that make a difference? Of course, it does. Being primarily in a managerial role meant that I had less time to code and more time to do non coding tasks....

January 14, 2021 · 8 min · 1559 words · eakangk
Hashsets in C#

HashSet in C#

Software engineers are generally familiar with Sets as something that they learn in mathematics at university. They may also have learned about HashTables, a data structure that stores keys and values where keys are unique and values are stored at a location in memory that is the Hash of the key. I recently discovered that C# has a datastructure called HashSet. It is a datastructure that stores unique or distinct elements like a Set, but probably named a HashSet as under the hood it is implemented like a HashMap or a HashTable....

January 10, 2021 · 3 min · 634 words · eakangk