The Morning Brew

Well, I’ve made it all the way to edition 2000 of The Morning Brew – that’s a lot of early starts, plenty of coffee and tea consumed in the production of the daily updates, and hopefully a lot of useful information imparted to a lot of developers.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the people who have taken the time to send supportive messages and contribute links over the past year (and beyond) and to thank all the great post authors who make picking a good daily selection both difficult and easy.

If you find The Morning Brew a useful resource please consider telling your colleagues, friends and random developers you meet at events about it – and if you would like to help spread the word then there are some blog buttons you can use as outlined in the 500th edition post

All that remains is for me to wish you all a Happy New Year, and remind you that The Morning Brew takes UK public holidays off so there will be no edition tomorrow, with the usual posting schedule returning on Monday 4th January.

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• Doing One Thing with Microservices – Mark Rendle follows on from yesterday’s post looking at the ‘Do one thing well’ principle with a look at achieving that with microservices architectures
• Fluent Automated Testing – Patryk Borowa discusses approaching the ‘Edge of Feasible Maintainability’ with automated regression tests and how simple coding techniques, page object and Act Arrange Assert make clearer tests
• ASP.NET 5 Scoped Dependencies – Armen Shimoon discusses the dependency management capabilities of the ASP.NET 5 framework, looking at the provided dependency injection feautre and the different lifecycles provided, before eploring scoped dependencies in more depth
• Async await with Web Forms over multiple postbacks – Tristan9 explores a technique to execute async methods over multple page postbacks allowing work to be offloaded and recovered in another page request
• Linux Azure VM Scale Sets with shared storage using Lustre – Arsen Vladimirskiy takes a look at providing performant storage for Linux Virtual Machines on the Azure platform using Lustre
• Happy New Year 2016 around the World – Tomas Petricek shares his F# Advent Calendar contribution, a look at the world wishing each other Happy New Year, consuming and extracting tweets from a stream of tweet data and displaying it in a web application using F#
• F# advent 2015 – some fun with lambda calculus | getting #er – Carsten König explores Lambda Calculus in this F# Advent Calendar submission, exploring Church encodings and the concepts involved, building up to performing prime number tests
• De-stress with Debugging and Diagnostics – Canadian Developer Connection – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Lachezar Arabadzhiev highlights the latest Breakpoint episode where Paul Laberge and Jonathan Rozenblit discuss debugging and diagnostics

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The feeds are quite quiet this week as I suspect many folks are taking a bit of time away from the keyboard over the festive period.

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• The week in .NET – 12/29/2015 – Bertrand Le Roy shares a holiday edition of the weekly ‘This Week in .NET’
• Introducing NBench – an Automated Performance Testing Framework for .NET Applications – Aaron Stannard shares a nice introduction to the NBench framework, discussing how to use it to perform performance testing of NET based applications
• Revisiting 64-bit-ness in Visual Studio and elsewhere – Rico Mariani shares a detailed post discussing why shifting to 64bit is not necessary for Visual Studio, and in more general terms gives a good summary of why you should consider carefully the switch to 64bit in your applications.
• Do One Thing And Do It Well – Mark Rendle discusses the shift to more modular applications and frameworks, the principle of ‘Do one thing well’ which is common in the Unix platforms
• Introducing a simplified configuration experience for SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Azure Blog – Ninar Nuemah highlights the release of a new easier configuration process for managing the deployment of SQL Server Virtual Machines on the Azure platform
• Practical multithreading in ASP.NET – P. Marinov discusses blocking, fire and forget and background tasks in ASP.NET applications outlining techniques to perform these using framework features.

Community

• Microsoft Web Platform Day 21st Jan 2016 Microsoft Campus Reading – Lee Stott highlights an all day event taking place at Microsoft’s Reading Campus looking at all aspects of the Microsoft Web stack, including JavaScript, Angular and the Edge browser.

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• Exploring the new .NET "dotnet" Command Line Interface (CLI) – Scott Hanselman
• Black Tower Summoning: Object Composition With Mixins – Jaime González García
• The future of bundling JavaScript modules – Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
• Script Loading between HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 – Dino Esposito
• Detecting AdBlock without an extra HTTP overhead – Christian Heilmann
• Three Shades of Angular – Jeremy Likness
• New Visual Studio Code Extension – Markdown Links – Doug Finke
• First Update Released for Open Live Writer – Richard Hay
• Understand the complexity and maintainability of your code using Code Metrics in Visual Studio – Cyclomatic Complexity – Abhijit Jana
• Learning F# – The Thunderdome Principle for Functions – Jan Van Ryswyck
• True Asynchronous I/O – Danah Gaz

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