In the announcement for the Wolverine 5.0 release last week, I left out a pretty big set of improvements for modular monolith support, specifically in how Wolverine can now work with multiple databases from one service process. Wolverine works closely with databases for: And all of those features are supported for Marten, EF Core with … Continue reading Wolverine 5 and Modular Monoliths→| The Shade Tree Developer
The Wolverine 5.0 release earlier last last week (finally) added a long requested SignalR transport. The SignalR library from Microsoft isn’t hard to use from Wolverine for simplistic WebSockets or Server Sent Events usage as it was, but what if you want a server side application to exchange any number of different messages between a browser (or … Continue reading Using SignalR with Wolverine 5.0→| The Shade Tree Developer
I was the guest speaker today on the .NET Data Community Standup doing a talk on how the “Critter Stack” (Marten, Wolverine, and Weasel) support a style of database migrations and even …| The Shade Tree Developer
Until today’s Marten 8.12 release, Marten’s Async Daemon and a great deal of Wolverine‘s internals were both built around the venerable TPL DataFlow library. I had long considered a move to the newer System.Threading.Channels library, but put that off for the previous round of major releases because there was just so much other work to … Continue reading Marten 8.12 with New Plumbing→| The Shade Tree Developer
To the best of my recollection and internet sleuthing today, development on Marten started in October of 2015 after my then colleague Corey Kaylor had kicked around an idea the previous summer to utilize the new JSONB feature in PostgreSQL 9.4 as a way to replace our then problematic usage of a third party NoSQL … Continue reading Celebrating Marten’s 10th Birthday!→| The Shade Tree Developer
So here’s a common scenario when building a system using Event Sourcing with Marten: Some of the data in your system is just reference data stored as plain old Marten documents. Something lik…| The Shade Tree Developer
I just pulled the trigger on Marten 8.8 and Wolverine 4.10 earlier today. Neither is particularly large, but there’s some new toys and an important improvement for test automation support tha…| The Shade Tree Developer
To continue a consistent theme about how Wolverine is becoming the antidote to high ceremony Clean/Onion Architecture approaches, Wolverine 4.8 added some significant improvements to its declarativ…| The Shade Tree Developer
It’s the halfway point of 2025 some how, and we’ve now gotten past the big Marten 8.0 and Wolverine 4.0 releases. Right before I go on vacation next week, I thought it would be a good t…| The Shade Tree Developer
It’s a pretty big “Critter Stack” community release day today, as: Marten has its 8.0 release Wolverine got a 4.0 release Lamar, the spiritual successor to StructureMap, had a cor…| The Shade Tree Developer
One of the earliest lessons I learned designing software systems is that reigning in unchecked growth of databases through judicious pruning and archiving can do wonders for system performance over…| The Shade Tree Developer
Work is continuing on the “Critter Stack 2025” round of releases, but we have finally got an alpha release of Marten 8 (8.0.0-alpha-5) that’s good enough for friendly users and co…| The Shade Tree Developer
It’s just time for an update from my last post on Critter Stack Roadmap Update for February as the work has progressed in the past weeks and we have more clarity on what’s going to chan…| The Shade Tree Developer
Just for fun, here’s what I wrote as the My Technical Plans and Aspirations for 2024 detailing what I had hoped to accomplish this year. While there’s still just a handful of technical …| The Shade Tree Developer
I realize the title sounds a little too similar to somebody else’s 2025 platform proposals, but let’s please just overlook that This is a “vision board” document I wrote up …| The Shade Tree Developer
