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Unlocking Business Potential: Exploring the Benefits of Platform Thinking

Brad Jolicoeur - 07/09/2023
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, traditional linear business models are being disrupted by the emergence of platforms. Platform thinking offers a new paradigm for businesses to unlock their potential, create scalable ecosystems, and drive innovation. In this article, we will delve into the world of platform thinking, exploring its benefits and highlighting why businesses should consider adopting this strategic approach.
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From Discord to Synergy: Utilizing the Evaporating Cloud for Conflict Resolution in Software Projects

Brad Jolicoeur - 06/08/2023
Goldratt provides 6 thinking processes as part of TOC and two of them are systematic approaches for resolving conflict. These thinking processes are Evaporating Cloud (Conflict Resolution Diagram) and Current Reality Tree (CRT). The evaporating cloud process is the simpler approach that can be used to solve most conflicts and is a frequently used tool in my toolbelt.
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Achieving Faster Delivery: Harnessing the Theory of Constraints in Software Development

Brad Jolicoeur - 06/03/2023
The Theory of Constraints (TOC) is a management philosophy and methodology developed by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. It focuses on improving organizational performance by identifying and addressing constraints, which are bottlenecks or limiting factors that impede the system's ability to achieve its goals.
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Exploring Fast Endpoints: A Better Approach to Building APIs

Brad Jolicoeur - 05/21/2023
I recently stumbled upon a Library called Fast Endpoints while doing research and it immediately struck me as something I wanted to learn more about. I had started experimenting with Minimal APIs at the time. While I liked that Minimal APIs lower the entry point for simple API creation and are significantly more performant than MVC Controllers, they quickly turn your program.cs file into a jumbled mess with anything beyond trivial. The desire for code organization quickly pushes towards finding a sensible way to orient the code.
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The Importance of API Versioning: Ensuring Compatibility and Flexibility

Brad Jolicoeur - 05/18/2023
Not versioning APIs is one of the biggest issues I see with teams that attempt to implement a distributed architecture. Not supporting multiple versions of an API means all the teams are coupled together and requires downtime to deploy. I've actually seen where this is actually listed as a reason to use a monolith instead of a distributed architecture.
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Event Sourcing with MartenDb

Brad Jolicoeur - 10/09/2021
I have been digging into MartenDb and found a sample of the Event Sourcing features included in MartenDb. In this article I walk through this simple Event Sourcing example and describe what is happening.
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Exploring Marten

Brad Jolicoeur - 09/12/2021
My early exploration and subsequent experiences with building a solution that leverage Marten.
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Steeltoe Microservices Framework

Brad Jolicoeur - 11/13/2020
If you have not run across Steeltoe, it is a set of libraries that address most of the cross cutting concerns you deal with when building microservices. Logging, Configuration, Health Checks, Traces, Service Discovery, etc.
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Exploring Rebus

Brad Jolicoeur - 10/23/2020
Recently, I became aware of two other options in the .NET Service Bus space that I felt deserved a closer look. Rebus and Brighter. Since Rebus seemed to be similar to NServiceBus and MassTransit I started there.
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My Favorite NServiceBus Features - Message Encryption

Brad Jolicoeur - 10/20/2020
Property encryption is one of my favorite NServiceBus features in that it provides a pattern for implementing message encryption as well as providing a concrete basis for addressing the concerns of compliance and security teams. Additionally, once your endpoint conventions are configured, it is easy to live with since it gets implemented only where necessary and in a consistent way.
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