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
Let’s just say that Marten incurs some serious benefits to being on top of PostgreSQL and its very strong support for transactional integrity as opposed to some of the high profile commercial Event Sourcing tools who are spending a lot of time and energy on their “Dynamic Consistency Boundary” concept because they lack the ACID … Continue reading Operations that Span Multiple Event Streams with the Critter Stack→| 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 declarative persistence support (partially after seeing how a recent JasperFx Software client was encountering a little bit of repetitive code). A pattern I try to encourage — and many … Continue reading Improved Declarative Persistence in Wolverine→| The Shade Tree Developer
We just released a new batch of improvements in the Marten 8.4 release that improved Marten‘s already strong support for tracking metadata on event persistence. Override Event Metadata on Individual Events This work was done at the behest of a JasperFx Software client. They only needed to vary header values between events, but while the … Continue reading Metadata Tracking Improvements in Marten→| 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