Stop Letting Your Controllers Talk to SQL: Layered Architecture in ASP.NET Core
Walk into almost any long-lived enterprise codebase, and you will find the same pattern: At that point, adding a new feature feels like surgery without a map. You poke at one place, something bleeds somewhere else, and nobody is sure why. Layered architecture exists to stop that. In this post, we will walk through a practical version of Fowler’s layered …
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Enterprise Patterns, Real Code: Implementing Fowler’s Ideas in C#
Most enterprise systems already use patterns from Martin Fowler’s Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. The twist is that many teams use them without naming them, half implement them and then wonder why the codebase fights back. If your ASP.NET solution contains controllers that talk straight to SQL, services that return HTTP responses, and entities that call SaveChanges, you are already …
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Licensing Compliance in the Courtroom: Why It Matters More Than You Think
If you’re looking to enhance your organization’s systems through quality assessments, I would love to connect with you. Let’s explore how I can contribute to your success. You can easily reach me via my contact page here: https://woodruff.dev/contact/ In nearly every industry, open-source code fuels innovation. Developers harness open libraries, frameworks, and tools to accelerate features and cut costs. Yet, …
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Secure Application Development Starts With Architecture
If you’re looking to enhance your organization’s systems through quality assessments, I would love to connect with you. Let’s explore how I can contribute to your success. You can easily reach me via my contact page here: https://woodruff.dev/contact/ Security cannot be patched in later; it is structural Most organizations still treat application security as part of the endgame. They build, …
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Make Your GitHub Profile Update Itself (WordPress posts, GitHub releases, LinkedIn newsletters)
Want your GitHub profile to look alive without spending your weekends copy-pasting links? Let’s wire it to your actual work: blog posts from WordPress, newly published releases, and your newsletter issues. You will get a profile that quietly refreshes itself on a schedule and on events. We will use: Demo vibe: low maintenance, high signal. Set it once, let it …
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Bridging the Gap Between Software Engineering and Business Goals
If you’re looking to enhance your organization’s systems through quality assessments, I would love to connect with you. Let’s explore how I can contribute to your success. You can easily reach me via my contact page here: https://woodruff.dev/contact/ Security cannot be patched in later; it is structural Many organizations underestimate the importance of incorporating security from the very beginning, viewing …
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Software Quality Assessment as an Ongoing Practice, Not a One-Time Event
If you’re looking to enhance your organization’s systems through quality assessments, I would love to connect with you. Let’s explore how I can contribute to your success. You can easily reach me via my contact page here: https://woodruff.dev/contact/ Quality checks are often treated as a box to tick at release time Many organizations still think of quality as something to …
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The Hidden ROI of Technical Due Diligence in Software Investments
If you’re looking to enhance your organization’s ROI through strategic software investments, I would love to connect with you. Let’s explore how I can contribute to your success. You can easily reach me via my contact page here: https://woodruff.dev/contact/ Most investment decisions focus on financials, not software foundations When investors assess a company, the starting point is often its financial …
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Bringing Simplicity-First to the Page: My Upcoming Book
I am excited to share some big news. In the second half of 2026, my new book, titled Software Architecture Made Simple: A ‘Simplicity-First’ Approach to Software in the Age of Complexity, will be released. This book compiles years of blog articles, newsletters, and social media posts, consolidating them into a single, focused source of knowledge. Think of it as the …
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System Modernization Without the Burnout: Lessons from Distributed Systems
If you’re looking for support in successfully migrating your legacy system, I would love to help your organization through this process. Let’s connect and explore how I can assist you. You can contact me directly via my contact page here: https://woodruff.dev/contact/ The Dreaded “Big-Bang Rewrite” Every developer has heard the horror story: the company that decided to throw away its …
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