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How can I safely make a change now that it’s been several weeks, months, or even years? Without a trail of reasoning, it’s easy to second-guess decisions that may still be sound, repeat gotcha mistakes, or simply waste time and resources unraveling past logic. particular.net/blog/architect…

In a hospital ER, birthdate is nullable because patients sometimes arrive unconscious. In a pharmacy, birthdate is a rule that controls what patients get access to which drugs. How do we integrate these two systems? Fallacy 8: The network is homogeneous particular.net/blog/the-netwo…

Primary constructors are more than syntactic sugar … they do change *when* your fields get initialized. (Love them though!) steven-giesel.com/blogPost/a3c74…

Distributed systems come in all shapes and sizes. With the NServiceBus messaging bridge, you can send and receive messages between endpoints using different transports. docs.particular.net/nservicebus/br…

"Tools find. Agents investigate. Humans decide." This Halloween, perform a little exorcism on your own haunted codebase. blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/exorcisi…

Perf nerds unite! Khalid benchmarked every way to loop through a list in C#. khalidabuhakmeh.com/posts/how-to-l…

Derek Comartin’s five event driven pain points: tracing that stops at the broker, dead letter queues nobody can inspect, forcing everything into async events, eventual consistency complicating compensation, and integration tests trying to cover every boundary. Most come from tooling and misapplied concepts, not events themselves. codeopinion.com/event-driven-a…

@ParticularSW a nightly count of what's sitting in each DLQ, posted to the team that owns it, fixes the "nobody looks" part cheaply. who usually owns replays in the setups you see?

@automatethebs Yep, tooling and observability, just like Derek said. We've seen all sorts of setups across our customers, from developers directly "owning" the health and upkeep of the system, to having a NOC team (without direct application knowledge) serve as a triage layer.

Retries causing duplicates? Workflows breaking halfway? Services tightly coupled? Learn how to fix real microservice problems with ASP.NET Core + NServiceBus 10. pluralsight.com/courses/micros…

Learn to send messages, use pub/sub, and recover from failures with #NServiceBus in 5 short lessons docs.particular.net/tutorials/nser…

A ValueTask can look like a free performance win, yet it carries rules that Task doesn’t. Gérald Barré explains why the cheaper return type isn’t the better default for most methods. meziantou.net/task-vs-valuet…

What can ordering a latte at Starbucks teach you about software system design? Quite a lot, actually. Check out our blog post: particular.net/blog/what-star…

Payload size matters when data is mostly binary or bandwidth is tight, and JSON handles binary poorly. Andrew Lock introduces CBOR, an IETF standard binary format with JSON’s data model plus raw bytes that stays self describing, and shows reading and writing it with System.Formats.Cbor in .NET. andrewlock.net/an-introductio…

We need a way to capture the context of our decisions. A decision without context, no matter how grounded in reasoning at the time, guarantees future confusion when context inevitably changes. particular.net/blog/architect…

Afferent coupling, efferent coupling, platform coupling, spatial coupling, temporal coupling. Can you differentiate them all? If not, it's time to join @UdiDahan's free #DSDF course! go.particular.net/l/27442/2026-0…

And that's a wrap on #TechoramaNL! 🎬

A few days of talks, questions, ideas, demos, distributed systems, messaging - and some brilliant conversations at the Particular Software booth.

Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by, challenged us with a question, shared a production story, attended one of our talks, or simply came over to say hello. ❤️

And, of course, to the Techorama team for bringing this community together.

Until next time! 👋

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Swapping MSMQ for RabbitMQ looks like a transport change. In apps built on WCF, SQL Server, and distributed transactions, it can quietly change what your system guarantees. Ilnur Yusupov on the consistency gap that migration can open. hackernoon.com/replacing-tran…

One of the conversations happening at the Particular Software booth today:

💬 “If my message broker is reliable, why do I need anything else?”

Now *that's* a conversation we can spend some time on. 😄

If you're thinking about reliability, retries, failures, sagas, or what happens when things go wrong in production, come find us.

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When a workflow spans many messages, it becomes impossible to see what happened first, which state changed, and why a timeout fired. But with the Particular Service Platform, the impossible becomes possible. Take a look to see it in action. docs.particular.net/servicepulse/s…

Sarah Dutkiewicz shows how C# 15 unions express “exactly one of these” so the compiler checks every case, with caveats: exhaustiveness only applies to switch expressions, and default creates an empty union. blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/discrimi…

What a day at #TechoramaNL. 🙌

We've talked about retries, message ordering, sagas, Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, failures, and more than a few interesting production incidents. 😄

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the Particular Software booth today.

More tomorrow! 👋

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