Dasith Wijesiriwardena

Software Engineer | Solutions Architect | Tech Speaker | Geek with an unhealthy fascination for distributed systems and a #microsoftie. Not in that order. I’m currently based in Melbourne and work for Microsoft.

I’ve been developing software for close to 2 decades now. Since my early days of playing with C++, VB, ASP and PHP, software development has gone through a paradigm shift. These days I mostly work on things that run natively on the cloud and edge. Join me on my journey through the world of .NET and all things distributed.

Consider any opinions expressed here as my own.

Event Sourcing Examined Part 1 of 3

7 minute read

In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern. Index Part One (This one) Introduction to Event Sourcing Why Use Event Sourcing? Some Common Pitfalls Part Two Getting Familiar With Aggregates Event Sourcing Workflow Commands Domain Event Internal Event Handler Repository Storage & Snapshots Event Publisher Part ...

Where My Journey Began

4 minute read

This story begins in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Before computers sparked my interest I used to be an avid reader and loved novels by the likes of Martin Wickramasinghe and R.L.Spittel. I loved playing and watching cricket, still do. When my father bought an IBM 386 (Early 90s) it had Windows 3.1 and one of the very first memories I have is of using the copy command to copy games from a 3.5” floppy disk  to the hard drive. For some reason I found using the command prompt easier than the GUI. Maybe this was the ...