Udi Dahan

This has been one of our main tenets with NServiceBus and the rest of the platform in Particular. Everything should always Just Work™. twitter.com/sehoffman11/st…

Aggregate movie ticket sales across an entire continent during your lunch break with NServiceBus youtube.com/watch?v=83UYne…

If AI makes building and maintaining software much cheaper: Amazon is making massive mistake in retiring their own response to Zoom (it should be v cheap to maintain!) If maintaining software remains expensive even with AI, rebuilding a nontrivial SaaS in-house could be a mistake I do appreciate the enthusiasm to rebuild stuff, and we’ll learn in 1-2 years if it was worth it! Trying better than speculating tbh Source of Amazon announcement: aws.amazon.com/blogs/messagin…

@TrungTPhan The 220B line of code stat seems even older, possibly sourced from Gartner in the 1990s: planetmainframe.com/2024/03/cobol-…

@TrungTPhan Those stats are likely from 2017. rocketsoftware.com/en-us/insights… > A 2017 Reuters study lists 43% of banking systems still use COBOL Probable source: reuters.com/graphics/USA-B… Do you have anything more current?

It was a great run for Cobol. Been around for 66 years and most schools stopped teaching it decades ago. But the code still powers: - 43% of banking system - 95% of ATMs - 80% in-person credit cards - over $3 trillion in daily transactions

@patio11 Other than Gamma, specifically regarding India.

@patio11 I read the letter, start to finish, and didn't find any mention of revenue figures for AI companies. Is it somewhere else?

Stripe’s annual letter is out: stripe.com/annual-updates… The biggest highlight is relatively consistent every year: the Internet economy is growing faster than the rest of the economy. This has compounded for enough years that it is essentially _the_ growth engine in places.

Custom in-house software frameworks are like buying too many apples. You start telling people they have to eat the apples before they go bad. It stops being about what people need and it becomes about what the apples need.

Another, really well articulated case for "companies shouldn't vibe code all their 3rd party core apps". Yes, it may save some dollars, but it's a major distraction. If you have the kind of talent that can leverage AI to solve problems, work on things that are core to your mission and serve customers. Spend every possible calorie you have on creating customer value and moving the business forward.

Great news, NServiceBus version 10 has been released! Check out the announcement for details and a link to the upgrade guide. discuss.particular.net/t/nservicebus-…

@Aaronontheweb Enterprise pricing + small biz discounts = sustainability particular.net/pricing/small-…

TL;DR; there are several business models that are probably NGMI in the era of AI - selling components and education products are chief among them. There are other business models, that are going to fare much better and can even leverage LLMs as a flywheel for growth

How a $30 Subscription Killed the Components Business Last week I posted a video + post on the impact AI is having / will have on OSS projects themselves. I received some... emotional... responses to that in the comments and elsewhere. This post will be worse

A couple of months ago, I was speaking at a conference when it came time for the Q&A. Several people raised their hands, and one question after another came out. Interestingly, every question that was asked was something I had already written about in a blog post, sometimes many years earlier. Because I had already put my thoughts on paper, my answers were more thoughtful, more structured, and more relevant. After that experience, it made me reflect on something that feels obvious but is rarely said: the more you write, the better you speak. Writing forces you to slow down and think. When you write an idea, you have to work through the pros and cons, document the anecdotes, and clarify the lessons. That effort crystallizes your thinking and refines your word choice. Writing is one of the best mental exercises for improving how you think, which directly improves how you speak. There is also a powerful bonus. Writing captures your ideas for posterity and helps you retain them far longer than simply thinking or hearing them. My advice to entrepreneurs is simple: start writing. It does not have to be perfect. It does not have to be groundbreaking. It just has to be done. The more you write, the sharper your thinking becomes, and the stronger your speaking becomes. Writing and speaking reinforce each other, and entrepreneurs should invest in both.

Mainstream support for NServiceBus version 8 will end on April 16, 2026. Extended support plans are available. Check out all the details here: discuss.particular.net/t/mainstream-s…

@codeopinion If you're not using some kind of framework like NServiceBus or MassTransit, it can be hard to test more complex message-driven logic. With those kinds of frameworks, no biggie: docs.particular.net/nservicebus/te…

How do you think Linux happened? IBM and a bunch of others that wanted to undermine Microsoft started funding Linux, through hiring the various people involved in it. It was successful, but not because of magical community pixie dust. It was money.

"Rants and Raves" from @ShawnWildermuth > I think this is true whether it is an open source project, or a commercial product. It has felt like developers can get focused on “How hard could it be?”.

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NSB now completely *free* for orgs under $1M ! PLUS significant discounts as you grow to $5M !! particular.net/blog/launching…

New in NServiceBus! Now you can use #CloudflareR2 to store large message bodies in #AmazonSQS systems, which may be more cost effective for your system. particular.net/blog/aws-enhan…

@apxltd @Aaronontheweb @jbogard @RavenDB @ServiceStack @DuendeIdentity @chocolateynuget Of course, you're entitled to your opinion, but your characterizations of this approach do not reflect the experiences or successes of many of us in the space.

@apxltd @Aaronontheweb @jbogard I was arguably the first do to the OSS-to-commercial transition in the .NET space. Others followed including @RavenDB, @ServiceStack, @DuendeIdentity, and @chocolateynuget, to name a few. The model worked quite well for a bunch of us, getting us to sustainability.

"So you're mad that MassTransit is going to cost 4-5 figures going forward" "That's correct, Dave" "And so your team of 8 is rewriting all messaging using the raw RabbitMQ drivers?" "Correct" "At an estimated salary/time expense of $950,000 in upfront dev cost?" "Correct!"