Posts tagged CQRS
30th September 2026Event Sourcing on SQL Server with PolecatIf your shop runs on SQL Server and you've been eyeing Event Sourcing, Polecat is the most full featured event store you can get for SQL Server in .NET. It's built on the same shared infrastructure and a decade of production lessons from Marten, it has a first class Wolverine integration for CQRS, CritterWatch can monitor it, and JasperFx Software supports it. Here's the tour.
14th August 2026What a Critter Stack Workshop Actually Looks LikeWe've run Critter Stack workshops for several teams now, and no two have been the same. One went deep on asynchronous messaging, another on Wolverine's HTTP endpoint and message handler hybrids, a third on using Marten projections to build denormalized views for reporting screens. The material is built and ready — what it turns into depends on what your team actually needs.
11th August 2026Event Sourcing Without the Eventual Consistency Tax: Strong Consistency Options in Marten and PolecatMost event sourcing stacks make eventual consistency mandatory: events in one database, read models in another, and a subscription in between. Marten and Polecat keep events and read models in one database, which unlocks a dial no one else offers — projections snapshotted in the same transaction as the events, FetchLatest reads that are accurate even with async projections, wait-for-non-stale queries, and test automation that makes asynchronous projections actually testable.
15th November 2023The Critter Stack at .NET 2023Jeremy's .NET 2023 talk on CQRS with Event Sourcing using Marten and Wolverine: lower code ceremony, a great local developer story, testable domain logic, and built-in diagnostics.
30th July 2023CQRS is Easier than You Think!Oskar Dudycz's talk on why CQRS does not have to be scary, and how the Critter Stack keeps it approachable on .NET.