.NET Weekly #173

The closing issue of .net weekly for this year definitely and most likely years to come. Thanks to everyone who was reading this. I hope you've grabbed a bunch of interesting sources of news and are following the blogs of brilliant authors now.

Cloud & Web

1. Amazon RDS Now Supports PostgreSQL 12

2. Using jQuery and Bootstrap from a CDN with fallback scripts in ASP.NET Core 3.0

3. 3 Guiding Principles for Building New SaaS Products on AWS

4. Serverless in the Wild - Azure Functions Production Usage Statistics

5. Rebuilding our tech stack for the new Facebook.com

6. ASP.NET Core – fast and automatic dependency injection setup

Tooling & Libraries

1. Vue Test Utils 1.0 released!

2. systemd, 10 years later - a historical and technical retrospective

3. Dapr Runtime v0.7.0

4. GitHub Codespaces

5. Solid Infrastructure Security without Slowing Down Developers

6. Tye 0.2

7. Cosmos DB Profiler

Architecture & Databases

1. Deleting data distributed throughout your microservices architecture

2. Scaling SQLite to 4M QPS on a Single Server

3. Building an edge computing platform

4. TileDB 2.0 and the Future of Data Science

5. Self-Contained Systems

6. Resource-oriented Client Architecture

7. The myth of NoSQL (vs. RDBMS) agility - adding attributes

8. Monolith Decomposition Patterns

Programming Languages

1. Oracle vs PostgreSQL - First Glance

2. Write Libraries, Not Frameworks

3. Understanding Raft Consensus - Part 1

4. Avoid rolling your own leader election algorithm

5. .NET Portability Analyzer

6. Building End-to-End Diagnostics - OpenTelemetry Integration

7. Significant whitespace is DRY

8. Async Wandering Part 8 — async and await — the biggest C# mistake?

9. Post-Build Events and .NET Core

Runtime

1. Covariant Returns Feature

2. Port Cross OS DAC to 3.1

3. Use Pinned Object Heap for MemoryPool

Other

1. Bye, Amazon

2. Learning a New Language

3. SO - The Way Forward

4. .NET Annotated - May 2020

5. Open Source Arms Race