Top Links
- Azure Data Studio for SQL Server (Jenny Erie)
 - SQL Server 2019 preview containers now available (SQL Server Team)
 - Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.3, Powered by Industrialized Open Source, Helps You Deliver Superior Business Outcomes. We Recap the Latest Release (Jared Ruckle)
 - Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17763 available now! (Clint Rutkas)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- Using Scrutor to automatically register your services with the ASP.NET Core DI container (Andrew Lock)
 - ASP.NET Core: Entity Framework Query through Database (Asma Khalid)
 - 3 Ways Docker Customers Future-Proof Legacy Windows Server Applications (David Friedlander)
 - PKS 1.2 Adds AWS: More Multi-cloud for Your Kubernetes (John Allwright)
 - How to Build Serverless Web Apps With React and AWS Amplify (Nader Dabit)
 - Asynchronous initialization in ASP.NET Core, revisited (Thomas Levesque)
 - Chef makes it easier for customers to move older applications onto Microsoft Azure (Tom Krazit)
 - Demystifying QnAMaker FAQ Bots Supported Language Myth (Kasam Shaikh)
 - TagHelperComponent Show Case – Adding Language Direction (Hisham Bin Ateya)
 - 3 open source distributed tracing tools (Dan Barker)
 - How to build a TypeScript + GitHub Pages app (Dzmitry Zubialevich)
 - 5 Tips from Building an Action with a Conversation Designer (Jessica Dene Earley-Cha)
 - Some thoughts on Vue after deploying my first production app (Swizec Teller)
 - Enhanced Direct Line Authentication Features (Azure Bot Service Team)
 
XAML, UWP & Xamarin
Visual Studio & .NET
- Exploring MoreLINQ Part 20 – ToDelimitedString (and friends) (Mark Heath)
 - C# Intermediate – Static Members, Constants and Extension Methods (Marinko Spasojevic)
 - .NET Framework September 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup (Tara Overfield)
 - Here’s what’s new and coming to .NET Core with versions 2.1, 2.2, and 3.0 (João Carrasqueira)
 - Code Tip: Converting PDF, IBM FileNet P8, Wang, and LEAD Annotations (Greg)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- Ignite2018: Container DevOps with Microsoft Azure – the blog post! (Jessica Deen)
 - Should I use GitHub to use the ten free Azure Pipelines? (Matteo Emili)
 - Don’t Hulk Smash Your Users (Bailey Lewis)
 - Code Review Prep: 4 Tips to Eliminate Inefficiency (Carlos Schults)
 - A new vision for modern work management with Microsoft Project (Jared Spataro)
 - Open Source Culture Starts with Programs and Policies (Lawrence Hecht)
 - Custom Dynamic Targets in Load Tests (Nikolay Atanasov)
 - Running manual tests against cloud infrastructure deployed by Octopus (Matthew Casperson)
 - Onion Architecture: Going Beyond Layers (Sylvia Fronczak)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Automatically Protect Your App with Visual Studio App Center and Intune (Villars Gimm)
 - NativeScript-Vue 2.0: Back to the Vueture (Rob Lauer)
 - ConnectableObservable: So Hot Right Now (Dan Lew)
 - Swift 5.0 Release Process (Ted Kremenek)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- AiA 208: From Custom Webpack Build to Angular CLI with Martin Jakubik (Alyssa Nicholl, Joe Eames, John Papa & Ward Bell)
 - Developer Tea – Three Co-Worker Anti-Patterns (Jonathan Cutrell)
 - What’s New in Visual Studio Code (Scott Hanselman & Christina Warren)
 - JavaScript Jabber podcast had me as a guest to talk about teaching and learning JavaScript (Chris Heilmann)
 - Software Engineering Daily – JavaScript Engines with Mathias Bynens (Jeff Meyerson)
 - One Hundred Episode Milestone (Matthew Groves)
 - RunAs Radio – Meltdown and Spectre Recap with Susan Bradley and Wayne Small (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
 - Ignite: Day 2 Intro (Christina Warren)
 - Interview with X.GLU, 2017 Imagine Cup Champions (Scott Hanselman)
 - SSW TV – Troy Hunt & Scott Helme Weekly Update (105) featured on SSW TV & live from NDC 2018 (Sophie Belle)
 
Community & Events
- Microsoft Ignite 2018 Top Announcements: Build Azure Weekly Special – September 25, 2018 (Chris Pietschmann)
 - GeekWire Summit: Join us for a look into the future with leaders from Boeing, Ring, Uber and more (John Cook)
 - There’s still time to get a 1-day ticket for TechBash next week if you can’t take the whole week off. Don’t miss Scott Hunter’s keynote on Thursday! (TechBash Team) – Check out the full schedule here.
 
Database
- Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters (Jenny Erie)
 - Running SQL Server 2019 CTP in a Docker container (Andrew Pruski)
 - Testing the Performance of Individual SQL Statements Within a Batch Using SQL Prompt (Phil Factor)
 
Miscellaneous
- Java 11 Released (Ben Evans)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #2672 (Chris Alcock)
 - Double Shot #2180 (Mike Gunderloy)
 - Xamarin & Windows App Developer Links – 2018-09-26 (Dan Rigby)
 
The Geek Shelf
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 ISBN: 1617293857  | 
React in Action: Mark Tielens Thomas: 9781617293856: Books
Kubernetes in Action: Marko Luksa: 9781617293726: Books
Kotlin in Action: Dmitry Jemerov, Svetlana Isakova: 9781617293290: Books