.NET Weekly #58

Cloud & Web

1. Remove dependency from JSON.NET

2. Kestrel took a pretty bad perf hit when switching the default transport to sockets

3. HolyJit - A New Hope

4. Secure your ASP.NET Core 2.0 API (part 1 - issuing a JWT)

5. The 6-Step "Happy Path" to HTTPS

Tooling & Libraries

1. HashiCorp Consul 1.0

2. REST Client for VS Code, an elegant alternative to Postman

3. Update on Microsoft’s Symbol Server

4. Running tests with dotnet xunit using Cake

5. Announcing the Terraform Recommended Practices Guide

6. Introducing Gluon - a new library for machine learning from AWS and Microsoft

Architecture & Databases

1. GitHub's GraphQL Future

2. Aerospike Database Takes a Major Step to Transform Enterprise Systems of Engagement

3. From CQS to CQRS

4. Even More SQL Server Features that Time Forgot

5. Simple SQL - Handling Location Datatypes

6. Developer Experience Lessons Operating a Serverless-like Platform At Netflix — Part II

Programming Languages

1. Dissecting the pattern matching in C# 7

2. Money monoid

3. Exploring different approaches to building WebAssembly modules

Runtime

1. RyuJIT Just-in-Time Compiler Optimization Enhancements

2. Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7.1

3. DotNetAnywhere - An Alternative .NET Runtime

Other

1. Open-sourcing RacerD - Fast static race detection at scale

2. The Ultimate .NET Experiment – open source project

3. An update and retrospective on Serilog file logging

4. Browser security beyond sandboxing