# .NET Weekly #107 ## Cloud & Web 1. [Is ASP.NET Core now a Mature Platform?](https://rehansaeed.com/is-asp-net-core-now-a-mature-platform/) 2. [3 tips for scaling large Vue.js application](http://www.maxpou.fr/3-tips-scaling-vue-application) 3. [My Thoughts on the Serverless Announcements at reInvent 2018](https://blog.binaris.com/my-thoughts-on-the-serverless-announcements-at-reinvent/) 4. [Productivity in Vue — Part 1](https://medium.com/vuetify/productivity-in-vue-part-1-de56e9c1d97d) 5. [A Fairy Tale of F# and Durable Functions](https://hackernoon.com/a-fairy-tale-of-f-and-durable-functions-975ccc4d46b8) ## Tooling & Libraries 1. [Microsoft open sources Trill to deliver insights on a trillion events a day](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-open-sources-trill-to-deliver-insights-on-a-trillion-events-a-day/) 2. [Enable repeatable package restores using a lock file](https://blog.nuget.org/20181217/Enable-repeatable-package-restores-using-a-lock-file.html) 3. [Project Argo Goes Open Source - On-Prem Automation and Our Path to a Hybrid Environment](https://tech.wayfair.com/2018/12/project-argo-open-source-on-prem-automation/) 4. [Cloudworker  -  A local Cloudflare Worker Runner](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudworker-a-local-cloudflare-worker-runner/) 5. [Kong 1.0 GA](https://konghq.com/blog/kong-1-0-ga/) 6. [HTTP/3 Draft Spec](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-http-17) 7. [Electron 4.0.0](https://electronjs.org/blog/electron-4-0) 8. [Introducing New Consul Learn Platform and New Resources - Kubernetes, AWS Cloud Map, and Many More](https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/consul-learning-resources-kubernetes-aws-cloud-map) 9. [Nomad Learning Resources - Vault Integration, Prometheus Monitoring, Reference Architecture, Deployment Guide, Load Balancing](https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/nomad-learning-resources-2018-12) 10. [Vault Learning Resources: 1.0, Auto-unseal, Agent, Kubernetes](https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/vault-learning-resources-auto-unseal-agent-kubernetes) 11. [Rider 2018.3 is released](https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2018/12/18/rider-2018-3-released/) ## Architecture & Databases 1. [The Guardian - Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres](https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres) 2. [Envoy Proxy at Reddit](https://redditblog.com/2018/12/18/envoy-proxy-at-reddit/) 3. [How we deal with Data Quality using Circuit Breakers](https://quickbooks-engineering.intuit.com/taming-data-quality-with-circuit-breakers-dbe550d3ca78) 4. [Why REST Sucks](http://vmrcre.org/web/scribe/home/-/blogs/why-rest-sucks) 5. [Evaluating High Availability Solutions for TimescaleDB + PostgreSQL](https://blog.timescale.com/high-availability-timescaledb-postgresql-patroni-a4572264a831) 6. [A real-time in-game currency service with 7.5M transactions/minute](https://medium.com/loco-blog/a-real-time-in-game-currency-service-with-7-5m-transactions-minute-fdd21b1bd8da) 7. [PostgreSQL on the Rise - 2018 Postgres Findings & 2019 Trends](https://severalnines.com/blog/postgresql-rise-2018-postgres-findings-2019-trends) 8. [Design exercise - Distributing (consistent) data at scale](https://ayende.com/blog/185569-A/design-exercise-distributing-consistent-data-at-scale) 9. [Design exercise - Distributing (consistent) data at scale, answer](https://ayende.com/blog/185570-A/design-exercise-distributing-consistent-data-at-scale-answer) 10. [Cape Technical Deep Dive](https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/12/cape-technical-deep-dive/) ## Programming Languages 1. [Fun With \_\_makeref](http://benbowen.blog/post/fun_with_makeref/) 2. [Containing Null with C# 8 Nullable References](https://praeclarum.org/2018/12/17/nullable-reference-types.html) 3. [Clojure’s stability - lessons learned](https://words.steveklabnik.com/why-is-clojure-so-stable) 4. [Stop Learning Frameworks](https://sizovs.net/2018/12/17/stop-learning-frameworks/) 5. [Why you should learn F#](https://dusted.codes/why-you-should-learn-fsharp) 6. [GraphIt - A high-performance graph DSL](https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/12/12/graphit-a-high-performance-graph-dsl/) 7. [How I improved the YamlDotNet performance by 370%](https://wojciechnagorski.com/2018/12/how-i-improved-the-yamldotnet-performance-by-370/) ## Runtime 1. [Add draft default interface methods specification](https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/pull/21564) 2. [V8 release v7.2](https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-72) 3. [Transport.Sockets.IOQueue to IThreadPoolWorkItem](https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/pull/4601) 4. [Disable AllowSynchronousIO by default in all servers in netcore 3.0](https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/pull/5120#discussion_r242641868) 5. [Running net core app for a few hours causes .NET Framework 3.5 installation popup](https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/21609) 6. [War Story – The Mystery Of The Very Long GC Pauses in .NET Windows Service](http://tooslowexception.com/scenario-mystery-of-the-very-long-gc-pauses-in-net-windows-service/) 7. [.NET Core - What's Coming in .NET Core 3.0](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt848631) ## Other 1. [Windows Sandbox](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Internals/Windows-Sandbox/ba-p/301849) 2. [MIPS Goes Open Source](https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334087) 3. [Everything I've learned in 10 years of Blogging](https://ferrucc.io/posts/starting-a-blog/) 4. [Dark Patterns](https://darkpatterns.org/) 5. [Ode to Erlang](https://pattern-match.com/blog/2018/12/11/ode-to-erlang/) 6. 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