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Architecture 10 Nov 2025

One Rename Broke the Only Contract

The last commit of ModularMonolith renames Name to ConferenceName in the subscriber's copy of its one integration event - and the JSON translator has delivered null into that field ever since. Anatomy of a silent contract break.

Architecture 09 Nov 2025

Serialize, Deserialize, Deliver

ModularMonolith routes events between modules by class name and converts them by JSON round-trip - a one-line Message Translator that lets modules share contracts without sharing types, at a price the next part collects.

Microservices 26 Oct 2025

The Message Map and the Wrong Exchange

The estate's full who-publishes-what matrix, built from the source - and the one broken cell in it. Orders' copied ParcelDeleted event declares the deliveries exchange while Parcels publishes on parcels, so Orders never learns a parcel was deleted, and neither the Pact tests nor the hand-maintained registry can catch it.

Microservices 18 Oct 2025

Subscribing to Everything Without Referencing Anything

Pacco's Operations service listens to all eighty messages in the estate while owning zero contract classes - it reads a JSON registry and forges the CLR types at runtime with Reflection.Emit. The estate's answer to the shared-contracts problem, and the drift it cannot see.

Microservices 14 Oct 2025

CQRS at the Transport Layer

In Pacco the CQRS split is not a diagram - it is wiring you can read. Every command arrives through two front doors, RabbitMQ subscription and controller-less HTTP dispatch, while queries ride HTTP only; commands assign their own ids in the constructor, and a marker attribute turns each service into its own runtime contract registry.

Microservices 18 Sep 2025

Copy the Contract or Share It

DShop answers the shared-kernel question twice - eight services copy every event contract locally, one references a shared package - and both answers are in the same estate with their real costs on show. Part 4 of Nine Services and a Message Bus.

Microservices 17 Sep 2025

OrderCreated in Three Shapes

The same event is declared three times across DShop, and one copy quietly drops a field - here is the contract drift in the real source and the canonical-model cure that would have caught it. Part 3 of Nine Services and a Message Bus.