Stop Letting Your Controllers Talk to SQL: Layered Architecture in ASP.NET Core

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#

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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