Reading List
This is a feed of links I've run across and found interesting or noteworthy. The images, content and opinions in them are owned by their respective authors.

Why we dropped Microsoft Power BI and embraced AWS QuickSight | by Jaime Navarrete | Medium
Jaime Navarrete - medium.com
Microsoft Power BI is a great tool for end users because it really captures a users attention with beautiful visualizations and has a very nice (probably the best) native iOS and Android App on the…

Amazon QuickSight - Business Intelligence Service - Amazon Web Services
aws.amazon.com
Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-native, serverless, business intelligence with native ML integrations and usage-based pricing, allowing insights for all users.

Configure Gitlab CI with Google Container Registry (GCR)
colinwilson.uk
Configure Gitlab CI with Google Container Registry (GCR)

Consuming WCF Web Services in .NET Core - Best Practices
thecodebuzz.com
Consume and integrate WCF Web Services in .NET Core 2.1 or 2.2 applications using approaches like 'Connected Services' and ServiceModel Metadata (svcutil.exe).

Developing Transactional Microservices Using Aggregates, Event Sourcing and CQRS - Part 1
infoq.com
A novel approach to developing microservices using DDD, Event Sourcing, and CQRS is able to overcome the challenge of using a microservice architecture for transactional business applications.

Developing Transactional Microservices Using Aggregates, Event Sourcing and CQRS - Part 2
infoq.com
A novel approach to developing microservices using DDD, Event Sourcing, and CQRS is able to overcome the challenge of using a microservice architecture for transactional business applications.
If You’re Building Microservices, You Need to Understand What a Bounded Context is | by Dave Taubler | DataDrivenInvestor
Dave Taubler - medium.com
The growth of microservice adoption has caused a resurgence in popularity of some previously-overlooked software design patterns. Many of these patterns have been mined from Eric Evans’ Domain Driven…

Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 and v16.9 Preview 1 Release Today
devblogs.microsoft.com
This version of Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 includes features impacting Git Integration, .NET productivity, C++20 Library Options, and XAML Data Binding.
Using WebApplicationFactory with NUnit | by Daniel Edwards | Medium
Daniel Edwards - medium.com
WebApplicationFactory was one of really cool features of ASP.NET Core 2 when it released. It meant that you didn’t have to write a lot of code to spin up a integration test server yourself and can…
#NoEstimates (Allen Holub)
youtube.com
This keynote presents my (and many other's) thinking about #NoEstimates. It argues that estimation is a bad thing, particularly in the Agile world, and prese...