Here are the things that caught my eye this week in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. High Performance IO with System.IO.Pipelines Pipelines was born from the work the .NET Core team was doing to make it easier to do high performance IO in .NET. In this episode, Pavel Krymets (@pakrym) and David Fowler (@davidfowl) come on the show to give us an overview of how the Pipelines programming model works, as well as give show us a few demos on how to use the… Read More »Roundup #32: System.IO.Pipelines, Libraries vs Frameworks, Performance Profiling in Rider, Cyclomatic Complexity, Lessons from the Birth of Microservices

Here are the things that caught my eye this week in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Starting the .NET Open Source Revolution Today building open source software at Microsoft is normal — but when I started at Microsoft in 2007, it sure wasn’t. It took a few years to figure out the right thing to do and to get the big ship that is Microsoft turned into the wind of open source. But we’re there now and I look back on those early challenges with a smile.… Read More »Roundup #31: .NET OSS, Async Startup, Loki Serilog, Monitoring, Collectible Assemblies, Alba 3.0

Here are the things that caught my eye this week in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. ProxyKit A toolkit to create HTTP proxies hosted in ASP.NET Core as middleware. This allows focused code-first proxies that can be embedded in existing ASP.NET Core applications or deployed as a standalone server. Deployable anywhere ASP.NET Core is deployable such as Windows, Linux, Containers, and Serverless (with caveats). Link: https://github.com/damianh/ProxyKit BeeHive A Zero Friction mini-Framework for cloud Actors – currently for Windows Azure only. Implementation is very simple – if you need… Read More »Roundup #30: ProxyKit, BeeHive, Nullable Ref Types, Close Loops & Opening Minds