# .NET Weekly #36

## Cloud & Web

1. [Upgrading to .NET Core 2.0 Preview](https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2017/May/15/Upgrading-to-NET-Core-20-Preview)
2. [Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core - Siren](https://codeopinion.com/self-descriptive-http-api-in-asp-net-core-siren/)
3. [Razor Pages with ASP.NET Core 2](http://gunnarpeipman.com/2017/05/razor-pages/)
4. [Use results from a load/performance test and Application Insights to solve performance problems](https://www.patrickvankleef.com/2017/05/15/use-results-from-a-load-performance-test-and-application-insights-to-solve-performance-problems/)

## Tooling & Libraries

1. [Using Docker with .Net Core in CI for OSS](http://blog.jonathanchannon.com/2017/05/15/using-docker-with-netcore-ci/)
2. [Announcing Git Integration for Atom and GitHub Desktop Beta](https://github.com/blog/2362-announcing-git-integration-for-atom-and-github-desktop-beta)
3. [How the Microsoft Bot Framework Changed Where My Friends and I Eat - Part 1](http://rion.io/2017/05/11/how-the-microsoft-bot-framework-changed-where-my-friends-and-i-eat-part-1/)
4. [Akka.NET 2017 Roadmap Update](https://petabridge.com/blog/akkadotnet-2017-roadmap/)

## Architecture & Databases

1. [Monikers Instead of Variables](http://www.yegor256.com/2017/05/16/monikers.html)
2. [SQL Server Command Line Tools for macOS released](https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2017/05/16/sql-server-command-line-tools-for-macos-released/)
3. [SQL Server 2016 Cumulative Updates](http://sqlblog.com/blogs/sergio_govoni/archive/2017/05/19/sql-server-2016-cumulative-updates-may-2017.aspx)
4. [PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 Released](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1749/)
5. [The Drawbacks of Serverless Architecture](https://dzone.com/articles/the-drawbacks-of-serverless-architecture)

## Programming Languages

1. [Tackling HackerRank with F#](https://darren.hickling.is/blogging-about/tackling-hackerrank-with-fsharp/)
2. [ES proposal - RegExp named capture groups](http://2ality.com/2017/05/regexp-named-capture-groups.html)
3. [ES proposal - RegExp lookbehind assertions](http://2ality.com/2017/05/regexp-lookbehind-assertions.html)
4. [Fun with C# local functions](https://ayende.com/blog/178115/fun-with-c-local-functions)
5. [P - A programming language designed for asynchrony, fault-tolerance and uncertainty](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/p-programming-language-asynchrony/)

## Runtime

1. [To box or not to Box? That is the question!](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/seteplia/2017/05/17/box-or-not-to-box-that-is-the-question/)
2. [Interesting read on 'Assembly Load Contexts' in .NET Core](https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/design-docs/assemblyloadcontext.md)
3. [Adding a new Bytecode Instruction to the CLR](http://mattwarren.org/2017/05/19/Adding-a-new-Bytecode-Instruction-to-the-CLR/)
4. [Concurrent GC in Mono 5](http://www.mono-project.com/news/2017/05/17/concurrent-gc-news/)

## Other

1. [Microsoft launches the Fluent Design System, its take on Google’s Material Design](https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/11/microsoft-launches-fluent-design-its-take-on-googles-material-design)
2. [Two years of Rust](https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/05/15/rust-at-two-years.html)
3. [Releasing the World’s Largest Street-level Imagery Dataset for Teaching Machines to See](http://blog.mapillary.com/product/2017/05/03/mapillary-vistas-dataset.html)
4. [Android now supports the Kotlin programming language](https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/17/android-now-supports-the-kotlin-programming-language/)


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