.NET Weekly #63

Cloud & Web

1. Azure SQL Databases Disaster Recovery 101

2. Implementing background tasks in .NET Core 2.x webapps or microservices with IHostedService and the BackgroundService class

3. Creating strongly typed xUnit theory test data with TheoryData

4. Web Truths - the web is broken and backwards compatibility is holding us back

Tooling & Libraries

1. Large C# and VB solutions load significantly faster in 15.5 update for VS

2. Overview of Visual Studio 2017 and Updates for .NET Developers

3. Introducing GitHub Team discussions

4. .NET (Micro)ORM fetch benchmark results and the fine details

5. Announcing Language Server Protocol Preview Release

6. Code formatting engine updates in ReSharper and Rider

7. NHibernate Profiler 5.0 Alpha has been released

8. PowerShell Core 6 Release Candidate

Architecture & Databases

1. User experience design for APIs

2. Software Design Bias

3. Functional Microservices in Real-Time Financials

4. Monitoring Microservices - A Prediction for 2018

Programming Languages

1. Monoids accumulate

2. Verifying your own .NET IL-Code

3. Writing smarter cross-platform .NET Core apps with the API Analyzer and Windows Compatibility Pack

4. C# 7 Series, Part 6 - Read-only structs

5. The TypeScript webpack PWA

Runtime

1. Plan for running netstandard test bed against Mono

2. Improve Density of GC heap by String Interning (de-duping) on Gen2

3. Profiler Interest Group - Announcements

4. .NET Core Alpine Docker Image Ready for Testing

5. HashCode based on xxHash32

Other

1. Trust. Pay. Lose.

2. The bare minimum a distributed system developer should know about - Binding to IP addresses

3. Using Gists for General Purpose Web Pages with Markdown

4. How to reduce false negative in software testing!