Category Archives: Architecture

Efficient transactional processing

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

Ayende had a post on how to handle race conditions and unbounded result sets, describing a problem where you needed to perform transactional work against a set of entities. A bad solution would be: var subscriptions = session.Query<Subscription>().Where(s=>s.NextCharge < DateTime.Now); … Continue reading →

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Case study in mixing system concerns

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

For the vast majority of systems I’ve been involved with, transaction isolation levels were never something I really had to worry about too much.  The number of reads on these systems overwhelmingly outnumbered the number of writes.  But every once … Continue reading →

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Queues are still queues

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

Recently, we’ve started migrating our application to more of a message-based architecture.  This will be part of a bigger series on migrating to a messaging-based architecture, but one rather funny (or not funny, since we were in production) side effect … Continue reading →

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