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Jimmy Bogard
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Jimmy Bogard's personal blog at jimmybogard.com covers programming and business. Since 2017, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Vertical Slice Architecture”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-23, and you can follow it by feed.
I'm Jimmy Bogard, a software architect and consultant. I created the OSS libraries AutoMapper, MediatR, and Respawn. I help teams build systems faster, better, and more maintainable.
Most-linked posts?
- Vertical Slice Architecture4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-04-20
- AutoMapper and Mediatr Going Commercial3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-02
- The False Dichotomy of Monoliths and Microservices2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-04
- /vertical-slice-architecture/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-04
What Hacker News says?
My search also turned this up: https://x.com/jbogard/status/1111328911609217025 If that link doesn't work, then try: https://xcancel.com/jbogard/status/1111328911609217025 Source (which will explain the joke for anyone who didn't get it immediately): https://www.jimmybogard.com/the-curious-case-of-the-json-bom...
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on “UTF-8 is a brilliant design”Submitted Service locator is not an anti-pattern as a story · 15 points
HN discussionIndeed, this seems to be the insight around vertical slice architecture? https://www.jimmybogard.com/vertical-slice-architecture/
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on “How to build quickly”Submitted AutoMapper and Mediatr Going Commercial as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI find it relatively easy to build "modular monoliths" by starting from "vertical slices"[0] at the outset. Vertical slices being primarily a feature organization strategy scales well pragmatically over time, IME. So when first starting out, you can keep it simple and just one monolith and one unit of deployment, but keep everything separated into their own feature folders with common things in a `shared` folder. Wh…
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on “Modular monolith and microservices: Modularity is what matters”Submitted Vertical Slice Architecture as a story · 7 points
HN discussionRelevant additional reading: https://martinfowler.com/articles/distributed-objects-micros... https://www.drdobbs.com/errant-architectures/184414966 https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-majestic-monolith/ https://jimmybogard.com/the-false-dichotomy-of-monoliths-and...
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on “Build the Modular Monolith First”Submitted Composite UIs for Microservices: Vertical Slice APIs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI haven't thought about trying to earn from OSS myself, but I'm curious to see how Jimmy Bogard - who recently announced this intention - is going to handle it. - https://www.jimmybogard.com/automapper-and-mediatr-going-com... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43558316
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on “Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects?”Submitted Vertical Slice Architecture as a story · 3 points
HN discussionEvery time I've worked on a project that used AutoMapper, I've hated it. But I'll admit that when you read why it was created, it actually makes sense: https://www.jimmybogard.com/automappers-design-philosophy/ It was meant to enforce a convention. Not to avoid the tedium of writing mapping code by hand (although that is another result).
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on “Decompiling the New C# 14 field Keyword”Submitted My Microservices FAQ as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe FAQ question about Jimmy is related to https://www.jimmybogard.com/automapper-and-mediatr-going-com...
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on “.NET library MassTransit going commercial with V9”Submitted Vertical Slice Architecture as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of Vertical Slice Architecture by Jimmy Bogard. https://jimmybogard.com/vertical-slice-architecture/
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on “Steel threads are a technique that will make you a better engineer”Submitted AutoMapper and MediatR Commercial Editions Launch Today as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AutoMapper and MediatR Licensing Update as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MediatR 12.1 Released as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AutoMapper's Design Philosophy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An Apostate's Implementation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vertical slice architecture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The False Dichotomy of Monoliths and Microservices as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dealing with Optimistic Concurrency Control Collisions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Refactoring Towards Resilience as a story · 1 points
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