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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 a complex implementation of the Actor Model, you are probably doing it wrong. It supports .NET Framework 4.5.2+ and .NET Standard 2.0+.
Link: https://github.com/aliostad/BeeHive
C# 8 Nullable Reference Types
C# 8.0 will introduce a new groundbreaking feature called
Nullable reference types, this feature will change the way we currently develop our software in C# by making, you guessed it, reference types nullable.
Link: https://www.marcbruins.nl/C-8-Nullable-reference-types
Close Loops & Opening Minds: How to Take Control of Systems, Big & Small
Whether it’s distributing configurations and customer settings, launching instances, or responding to surges in load, having a great control plane is key to the success of any system or service. Come hear about the techniques we use to build stable and scalable control planes at Amazon. We dive deep into the designs that power the most reliable systems at AWS. We share hard-earned operational lessons and explain academic control theory in easy-to-apply patterns and principles that are immediately useful in your own designs.