JasperFx Software will be shortly announcing the availability of official support plans for Marten, Wolverine, and other JasperFx open source tools. We’re working hard to build a sustainable ecosystem around these tools so that companies can feel confident in making a technical bet on these high productivity tools for .NET server side development.
I’ll be presenting a short talk at .NET Conf 2023 entitled “CQRS with Event Sourcing using the Critter Stack.” It’s going to be a quick dive into how to use Marten and Wolverine to build a very small system utilizing a CQRS Architecture with Event Sourcing as the persistence strategy.
Hopefully, I’ll be showing off:
- How Wolverine’s runtime architecture is significantly different than other .NET tools and why its approach leads to much lower code ceremony and potentially higher performance
- Marten and PostgreSQL providing a great local developer story both in development and in integration testing
- How the Wolverine + Marten integration makes your domain logic easily unit testable without resorting to complicated Clean/Onion/Hexagonal Architectures
- Wolverine’s built in integration testing support that you’ll wish you had today in other .NET messaging tools
- The built in tooling for unraveling Wolverine or Marten’s “conventional magic”
Here’s the talk abstract:
CQRS with Event Sourcing using the “Critter Stack”
Do you have a system where you think would be a good fit for a CQRS architecture that also uses Event Sourcing for at least part of its persistence strategy? Are you intimidated by the potential complexity of that kind of approach? Fear not, using a combination of the PostgreSQL-backed Marten library for event sourcing and its newer friend Wolverine for command handling and asynchronous messaging, I’ll show you how you can quickly get started with both CQRS and Event Sourcing. Once we get past the quick start, I’ll show you how the Critter Stack’s unique approach to the “Decider” pattern will help you create robust command handlers with very little code ceremony while still enjoying easy testability. Moving beyond basic command handling, I’ll show you how to reliably subscribe to and publish the events or other messages created by your command handlers through Wolverine’s durable outbox and direct subscriptions to Marten’s event storage.
The Shade Tree Developer 