Vigil Journey

Illusions of Queues and Buses

There are many solutions on the market (including free open source) for creating both message queues and event buses. However, for example purposes - and as a simple proof of concept - I just wanted...

Hydrating A Patron

There are two ways to retrieve the current values associated with an entity. The canonical source is the collection of events that describe how an entity came into existance and then was affected...

Patron Can Be Created and Updated (Again)

Now that I have revised my approach for what constitutes creating and updating entities, I am going back to my Patron entity to rework the create and update commands. I have already scrapped the...

Revisiting Creating and Updating Entities

Just when I thought I was in a good place to carry forward with retrieving a persisted entity and then modifying its values, I started looking intently into the CQRS Journey on MSDN. While reading...

User Can Update a Patron

A simple update of an object is as complex as adding a new instance of the object, which means it is both straight forward and laden with all kinds of caveats and unlying processes. As with creating...

A Word On Validation

For a while, I have been battling with where validation should occur, and who is responsible for ensuring that the information in a command is good data. For the first layer of data validation, I am...