.NET Weekly #64

Cloud & Web

1. Improving Document Preview Performance

2. ASP.NET Core Demystified - Middleware

3. Working around the lack of dynamic DbProviderFactory loading in .NET Core

4. Microsoft Research and Microsoft Azure improve the efficiency and capacity of cloud-scale optical networks

5. Configuring HTTPS in ASP.NET Core across different platforms

Tooling & Libraries

1. NuGet package statistics

2. BenchmarkDotNet v0.10.11 has been released - ByRef and Stack-only support, .NET Core 2.1 support

3. Home, home on the range - Installing Kubernetes using Rancher 2.0

4. Load Balancing Strategies for Consul

5. MediatR 4.0 Released

6. Practical Microsoft Orleans

Architecture & Databases

1. ThoughtWorks TechRadar 2017 is published

2. Redis 4.0.3 is out and is a CRITICAL upgrade

3. SQL Server Machine Learning Services – Part 1 Python Basics

4. Current State of the NewSQL/NoSQL Cloud Arena

5. Build Better GraphQL APIs - Thinking In Graphs

Programming Languages

1. Semigroups

2. NULL in SQL - Indicating the Absence of Data

3. How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# and CUDA

4. Precompiled Azure Functions in F#

Runtime

1. Exploring the BBC micro:bit Software Stack

2. Dissecting the async methods in C#

3. Debugging .NET Core CLR afterword

4. Benchmarking .NET Core 2.0/2.1 applications with BenchmarkDotNet

5. If you have a finalizer, watch your ctor

Other

1. How Micro Is Your Tasking?

2. Kotlin 1.2 Released - Sharing Code between Platforms

3. Fixing Those Broken Windows - Dealing with Technical Debt

4. Questions about Data Masking That You Were Too Shy to Ask

5. Python 3 Readiness - 345/360 most popular Python packages now support Python 3