Design patterns are solutions to recurring problems and complexities in software design. The ServiceLocator design pattern promotes loose coupling but sans the need of injecting dependencies through ...

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Some of the tools you use in building applications also apply as you build out your services. The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP), for example, makes as much sense at the service level as it ...

When designing data architectures, you can easily end up with different databases or even different database tables containing the same or similar data. This has been the root of many well documented ...

Moving from Analysis to Design phase, designers try to make the software system very maintainable through selecting all the functions that are used frequently by most of the use cases and make ...

In this post I’ll present a discussion on WCF service design and performance guidelines and the recommended best practices. In future posts in this series of ...