Being The Worst

Kerry and Rinat start a new development project from scratch. They discuss the plan, with caveats, then talk through the approach to getting started. (34 minutes)

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Episode References:

• Microsoft Azure Service Fabric documentation
• Feedback and Finding Us @beingtheworst on Twitter, on GitHub, and http://beingtheworst.com/

Kerry and Rinat discuss Rinat's recent blog post that covers all the things that he thinks he did wrong with his open-source Lokad.CQRS framework. Kerry asks for clarification on some of the topics in the post, and tries to get Rinat to see the good things that came from his, "big mistake", of a framework. (33 minutes)

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Episode References:

• Lokad.CQRS Retrospective
• Lokad.CQRS Sample Project
• Feedback and Finding Us @beingtheworst on Twitter, on GitHub, and http://beingtheworst.com/

Kerry and Rinat return. The guys catch-up on some of the development that Rinat’s been doing while they were away and set their recording timer to 30 minutes. They discuss that their sample GTD domain, from past episodes, is being implemented with Facebook Flux and React.JS as they set the stage for future episodes. (31 minutes)

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Episode References:

• Rinat’s Talk on ReactJS and Facebook Flux at DDDBE in Belgium
• GitHub source code GTD Domain in Flux and React.JS
• React Developer Tools from Facebook for Google’s Chrome browser
• Feedback and Finding Us @beingtheworst on Twitter, on GitHub, and http://beingtheworst.com/

Kerry and Rinat welcome guest Glenn Block to discuss hypermedia Web APIs, and the new book he co-authored on the subject. They get into some of the differences between systems that are designed to take advantage of the constraints of the REST architecture style, with those that are not. What is hypermedia? Should you always adhere to REST constraints and use hypermedia when building a Web API? What are some ways to implement these concepts on the client and server and how do they interact? What are some common implementation mistakes? API security? What can your book help me with? UCWA? And much more. (67 minutes)

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Episode References:

• Book: Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET – Harnessing the power of the web
• GitHub source code for the Web API book
• Roy Fielding: Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures
• Glenn Block on twitter
• Hypermedia
• Representational state transfer (REST)
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
• Mike Amundsen
• apiary
• Mark Seemann’s Hyperlinkr library on GitHub
• OpenRasta
• Lync – Microsoft’s Unified Communications Web API (UCWA)
• HAL – Hypertext Application Language
• Microsoft Azure
• Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
• Feedback and Finding Us @beingtheworst on Twitter, on GitHub, and http://beingtheworst.com/

Kerry and Rinat discuss some of the learning that Rinat and the HappyPancake team did to evaluate their language and tool options for their new project. Rinat makes some observations about his long history with C#, and the benefits of looking at other languages and approaches. In Episode 38, they may even discover new ways that C# can do some things that Rinat says can be hard to do using traditional C# and .NET techniques. They finish up by getting into more of the “Microservices” or maybe “component-based” approaches that Rinat has experienced recently. (56 minutes)

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Episode References:

• Dr. Erik Meijer Videos on Functional Programming
• Fred George on implementing Micro-Services
• Micro-Services – Java, the UNIX way
• HappyPancake R&D (Rinat’s new gig)
• Docker
• Syncspace (collaborative drawing)
• Java Metrics and a .NET port
• ServiceStack
• Event Store
• Google+ Hangouts
• SimCity
• Feedback and Finding Us @beingtheworst on Twitter, on GitHub, and http://beingtheworst.com/