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# .NET Weekly #3

## Cloud & Web

1. [Authenticating Mobile Apps with Azure Active Directory B2C](https://blog.xamarin.com/authenticating-mobile-apps-with-azure-active-directory-b2c/)
2. [Announcing the public preview of Azure Monitor](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-public-preview-of-azure-monitor/)
3. [External Network Access to Kestrel and IIS Express in ASP.NET Core](https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2016/Sep/28/External-Network-Access-to-Kestrel-and-IIS-Express-in-ASPNET-Core)

## Tooling & Libraries

1. [GitHub rebase and merge pull requests](https://github.com/blog/2243-rebase-and-merge-pull-requests)
2. [xUnit-Jet open-sourced](https://tech.jet.com/blog/2016/09-14-xunit-jet-open-sourced/)

## Architecture & Databases

1. [Introducing the GitHub Load Balancer](http://githubengineering.com/introducing-glb/)
2. [Why you should give Marten a look before adopting an ORM like EF](https://jeremydmiller.com/2016/09/23/why-you-should-give-marten-a-look-before-adopting-an-orm/)
3. [Open Sourcing Twitter Heron](https://blog.twitter.com/2016/open-sourcing-twitter-heron)
4. [Evolutionary Database Design](http://martinfowler.com/articles/evodb.html)
5. [Microservices - please don't](https://blog.komand.com/microservices-please-dont)

## Programming Languages

1. [Using F# and Canopy for UI Testing](http://www.jeremybellows.com/blog/Using-Fsharp-and-Canopy-for-UI-Testing)
2. [ES proposal: global](http://www.2ality.com/2016/09/global.html)
3. [Does Elm harmonize with F#](http://lucasmreis.github.io/blog/does-elm-harmonize-with-f/)

## Runtime

1. [Introducing .NET Standard](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/09/26/introducing-net-standard/)
2. [An Experience Report of Moving a Complicated Codebase to the CoreCLR](https://jeremydmiller.com/2016/09/28/an-experience-report-of-moving-a-complicated-codebase-to-the-coreclr/)
3. [Optimizing LINQ](http://mattwarren.org/2016/09/29/Optimising-LINQ/)
4. [Stack arena memory allocation context](https://ayende.com/blog/175554/stack-arena-memory-allocation-context)
5. [Un-swallowing Swallowed Exceptions with Fody and IL Weaving](https://buildplease.com/pages/ilweaving/)

## Other

1. [Hero Pattern](http://sergeyteplyakov.blogspot.com.by/2016/09/hero-pattern.html)
2. [Announcing Rust 1.12](https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/09/29/Rust-1.12.html)
3. [Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) Compilation May Come to OpenJDK HotSpot in Java 9](https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/10/AOT-HotSpot-OpenJDK-9)