Alexander R Torrijos stormwild

Read Part 1: MediatR vs MassTransit Mediator - Differences

The MassTransit Mediator implementation is more powerful than MediatR implementation, but also more complicate to use. Unit Testing a MassTransit Consumer is not a nice experience.

In this article I will propose some techniques to simplify the MassTransit Consumer and to make them look as straight forward as a MediatR handler.

Case study

We will study a very common use case (the most common use case which I can think of):

Why mediator?

In a ASP.NET Web application. You don't need mediator

If you prefers to make controlers depends directly to the Application Codes instead of indirectly via the Mediator.
If you prefers to make a normal ASP.NET Web Application instead of a Mediator Application

Frankly it is not a Bad choice, no need to use a Mediator framework or make a Mediator Application just because everyone did.. Though, There are benefits in making a Mediator Application:

Event sourcing (Messages broadcast), CQS pattern..
Decouple the Controler (presentation) from Application codes, so that you could swap the presentation technology. For eg, if you make a "MassTransit" application, then you can swap the presentation layer to Mediator or RabbitMQ, or Grpc.. => you are not to be sticked with or limited by ASP.NET presentation => but rather sticked with and limited by your mediator framework!

A half-hour to learn Zig

This is inspired by https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust/

Basics

the command zig run my_code.zig will compile and immediately run your Zig program. Each of these cells contains a zig program that you can try to run (some of them contain compile-time errors that you can comment out to play with)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18404272/running-ssh-agent-when-starting-git-bash-on-windows

https://help.github.com/articles/working-with-ssh-key-passphrases/#auto-launching-ssh-agent-on-git-for-windows

I needed this to launch the ssh agent on my windows git bash sessions.

edit or create .profile and add:

env=~/.ssh/agent.env

Foam Pit Starfield

A Pen by Adam Quinton on CodePen.

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	c.Errors.UseProblemDetails();

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	bld.Services
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	using Ardalis.Result;
	using FastEndpoints;
	using FastEndpoints.Swagger;

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	bld.Services
	.AddFastEndpoints()
	.SwaggerDocument();

	var app = bld.Build();

	// ...
	using Microsoft.Owin.Hosting;
	// ...

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	{
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