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I’m a Principal Systems Architect with a background in distributed systems, cloud-native engineering, and large-scale software architecture. I’m currently exploring how AI-native systems change the way we think about orchestration, runtime behaviour, observability, and stateful execution in production environments. This blog is a place to document ideas, experiments, and architectural observations around AI systems, platform engineering, distributed runtimes, and modern software architecture.

Category: ASP.NET MVC

  • ASP.NET MVC – Creating an application with a defined architecture

    Introduction This post continues from this previous post. In this post I will be creating a ASP.NET MVC application using the architecture described in the previous post. I will start by laying out the requirements, driving out the behaviour through tests, implement Unity and create the layers for the UI, controller and Presentation Processes. Since…

  • ASP.NET MVC – Defining an application architecture

    Introduction ASP.NET MVC is creating some buzz at the moment and has been long awaited. Being a Microsoft product, MVC will be launched into the mainstream development arena and like webforms, could and hopefully will be a popular web development platform that will be around for years to come . Microsoft and some of the…

  • ASP.NET MVC: A utility for testing secured Actions

    I have come across a common scenario while developing an ASP.NET MVC application. This being testing Actions that require the user to be authorised and / or requires permissions to execute methods  that are locked down with principal permissions. Here as an example of a controller with an action that is firstly decorated with the…

  • TDD/BDD with ASP.NET MVC

    I have recently been going hammer and tongs with ASP.NET MVC. One of the selling points for ASP.NET MVC is its testability, so while I have been learning this technology, I have found a couple of annoyances. When you create a new ASP.NET MVC project, the wizard in VS2008 asks you if you want to…