.NET Weekly #69

Cloud & Web

1. Best practices for user account, authorization and password managemen

2. Learn how to do Image Recognition with Cognitive Services and ASP.NET

3. Exploring the ApiControllerAttribute and its features for ASP.NET Core MVC 2.1

4. A to-do list for new ASP.NET Core projects

5. JWT Authentication for Microservices in .NET

6. Serverless observability brings new challenges to current practices

7. Azure CosmosDB Graph API now generally available

Tooling & Libraries

1. A new experiment Browser-based web apps with .NET and Blazor

2. Blazor - a technical introduction

3. Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 - Preview Release Notes

4. Scalable and Performant ASP.NET Core Web APIs - Load Testing

5. Visual Studio Code January 2018 (version 1.20)

Architecture & Databases

1. Couchbase Server vs CosmosDB
2. Containers - What Are They Good For?
3. RavenDB 4.0 is out
4. Outputting Status In Your T-SQL Code
5. Evolving CQRS and Event Sourced Systems
6. 8 Things to Monitor During a Software Deployment
7. Your Database Should Work Like a CDN

Programming Languages

1. Uncurry isomorphisms
2. Property Testing Generic Programs
3. Background reading on the reference counting vs tracing garbage collection debate
4. ES proposal - numeric separators

Runtime

1. Announcing .NET Framework 4.7.2 Early Access build 3052!
2. Getting Stacks for LTTng Events with .NET Core on Linux
3. Be Careful Where You Put GC.SuppressFinalize
4. Dynamic Tracing of .NET Core Methods
5. Top secret .NET handles – Part 1 – Dependent handles
6. Mono 5.8.0 Release Notes

Other

1. More Bugs, Please
2. KPTI/KAISER Meltdown Initial Performance Regressions
3. How Long is Long Enough? Minimum Password Lengths by the World's Top Sites
4. Microsoft Writing Style Guide Released