The journey is the most important thing, not the destination. Find your next destination and start traveling again. https://milestone.topics.it/ Mon, 09 Nov 2026 06:17:14 +0000 Mon, 09 Nov 2026 06:17:14 +0000 Jekyll v3.10.0 When you're involved with something for a very long time, it's easy to fall into the trap of taking many concepts for granted. Let's go back to the basics and build a common foundation. Today's topic is data ownership. Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://milestone.topics.it/2026/11/09/back-to-basics-data-ownership.html https://milestone.topics.it/2026/11/09/back-to-basics-data-ownership.html soa architecture back-to-basics Monolith first or microservices first? Both answers describe how the system is deployed, not how it's designed. What comes first is finding the logical boundaries. Distribution is a physical decision, and it should be the last one we make. Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://milestone.topics.it/2026/11/05/distributed-last.html https://milestone.topics.it/2026/11/05/distributed-last.html architecture distributed-systems soa logical-vs-physical One half of my feed says AI will make developers obsolete. The other half says it will multiply what we can build. Both can't be right. Or can they? And what happens when English becomes the programming language? Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://milestone.topics.it/2026/11/02/ai-eats-or-amplifies.html https://milestone.topics.it/2026/11/02/ai-eats-or-amplifies.html ai Strongly typed models make the compiler our friend, but in ViewModel Composition, they can quietly reintroduce the coupling we worked hard to remove. Let's see how to get type safety on both sides of the HTTP request without giving up autonomy. Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://milestone.topics.it/2026/10/28/servicecomposer-strongly-typed-models.html https://milestone.topics.it/2026/10/28/servicecomposer-strongly-typed-models.html soa viewmodel-composition Duplicate messages are often dismissed as a corner case. My inbox disagrees. Let's look at how duplicates happen, sent, received, or processed more than once, and what we can do about them. Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://milestone.topics.it/2026/10/24/seven-emails-duplicate-messages.html https://milestone.topics.it/2026/10/24/seven-emails-duplicate-messages.html messaging distributed-systems After my vibe-coding experiment, I went back for round two: a transactional session for Node.js, the outbox pattern, NServiceBus compatibility, published to npm and NuGet. Fun, surprisingly easy, and a lot less couch-and-broken-leg drama than last time. Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://milestone.topics.it/2026/10/21/zusammen.html https://milestone.topics.it/2026/10/21/zusammen.html ai nservicebus messaging distributed-systems OpenTelemetry tracing is one of those things you don't want until you need it. With version 5.2, ServiceComposer integrates with ASP.NET tracing adding relevant information to the ASP.NET spans. Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://milestone.topics.it/2026/05/15/service-composer-telemetry.html https://milestone.topics.it/2026/05/15/service-composer-telemetry.html soa viewmodel-composition We might be finding ourselves in a vicious loop, our productivity is a disaster, we're putting in more and more hours, but things get even worse. Maybe we're not the problem. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://milestone.topics.it/2026/03/19/your-emergencies-not-my-problems.html https://milestone.topics.it/2026/03/19/your-emergencies-not-my-problems.html self-organization remote-work time-management Scatter/gather represents a subset of the ViewModel Composition problem space: all the downstream endpoints return the same type of data with the same schema. It was a natural addition to ServiceComposer. Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://milestone.topics.it/2026/03/12/scatter-gather.html https://milestone.topics.it/2026/03/12/scatter-gather.html soa viewmodel-composition AI is the great enabler. I've been doing so many things I always wanted to do but never found the time. This time, it's a new version of the NServiceBus.IntegrationTesting framework removing all the limitations of the previous versions by introducing a container-based hosting architecture, providing full endpoint-under-test isolation. Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://milestone.topics.it/2026/03/06/integration-testing-3.html https://milestone.topics.it/2026/03/06/integration-testing-3.html integration-testing testing ai