We start with efficient querying by Jimmy Bogard then Basic HTTP Auth with WebAPI.

Mads Kristensen provides us a very nice article about cache busting in ASP.NET. I’ve also included some miscellaneous articles about high scalability, an Uncle Bob article and an article about the use of Windows Azure with Titanfall (a video game). Very interesting stuff.

As always, I end up with an article on ElasticSearch.

Enjoy!

.NET

Efficient querying with LINQ, AutoMapper and Future queries | Jimmy Bogard’s Blog (lostechies.com)

ASP.NET & WebAPI

Basic HTTP authentication in ASP.NET Web API using message handlers at piotrwalat.net (www.piotrwalat.net)

Cache busting in ASP.NET (madskristensen.net)

Miscellaneous

High Scalability - High Scalability - Building a Social Music Service Using AWS, Scala, Akka, Play, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch (highscalability.com)

When Should You Think? | 8th Light (blog.8thlight.com)

A closer look at Titanfall’s not-so-secret weapon: Microsoft’s cloud (www.engadget.com) – Reads like a PR piece but it is kind of awesome to see the Cloud in action

ElasticSearch

Querying ElasticSearch - A Tutorial and Guide - Open Knowledge Foundation Labs (okfnlabs.org)