SW Design: .NET application architectures

https://www.microsoft.com/net/learn/architecture

Security: Sonar (Open Source MS Tool)

https://thenextweb.com/apps/2017/10/26/microsoft-launches-sonar-to-test-your-sites-performance-and-security/

Quoting:
"Enter your project’s URL, and Sonar will comb through it for accessibility, interoperability, performance, security and progressive web app-related issues. Once it’s done scanning, it’ll list the errors it’s found and do its best to explain what’s going wrong, highlighting the errant code snippets and offering possible solutions.
(...) Sonar improves on the capabilities of other linting tools by executing your website code in a container instead of simply performing a static analysis for more accurate results, as well as allowing for integration with other services. And if you don’t care to use Sonar in your browser, you can also invoke its command-line interface."

Bigdata, Hadoop and MS integrations

Some details on MS (.Net and Visual Studio) and Hadoop:
http://www.itproportal.com/features/the-integration-of-big-data-and-microsoft-net-for-software-development/

About Hadoop:
"Apache Hadoop ( /həˈduːp/) is an open-sourcesoftware framework used for distributed storage and processing of dataset of big data using the MapReduce programming model. It consists of computer clusters built from commodity hardware. All the modules in Hadoop are designed with a fundamental assumption that hardware failures are common occurrences and should be automatically handled by the framework."
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Hadoop

SW Construction: Typescript update

Typescript is JavaScript with "enhancements" (that attempts to avoid some JS "traps") from MS and there's a new Release Candidate available:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2017/02/02/announcing-typescript-2-2-rc/