AzureLeap, .NET Core 2.1 Highlights, and More on The Friday Five!

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First published on MSDN on Nov 09, 2018

	Breaking the Monolithic Database in your Microservices Architecture Samir Behara is a Solution Architect with EBSCO Industries and builds software solutions using cutting edge Microsoft technologies, primarily C# and SQL Server. He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP with over 12 years of IT experience in various domains like Insurance, Manufacturing, and Publishing. Samir is a frequent speaker at technical conferences and is the Co-Chapter Lead of the Steel City SQL Server UserGroup, Birmingham, AL. He is the author of www.dotnetvibes.com . Follow him on Twitter @samirbehara . AzureLeap - Azure Backup strategies and costs Nino Crudele is very well known in the IT community for creating new innovative approaches to using technology to achieve excellent results, with high quality and low costs. He has found his most significant interest in Azure, Cybersecurity and integration of technologies. Nino is a Microsoft Azure MVP since 2006, and international speaker. Nino is currently working in Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence as Global Azure Lead. Follow him on Twitter @ninocrudele .
	Platform Conditional Compilation in .NET Core Magnus Montin is a passionate consultant, developer and architect based in Stockholm, Sweden. He specializes in Microsoft technologies and is a frequent blogger and answerer in technical online forums. Check out his Blog here .
	.NET Core 2.1 highlights: standing on the shoulders of giants Samuele Resca is an Italian software engineer now based in London. He is a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio and development technologies. Samuele specialized mainly on the .NET and the Javascript world, and basically everything that revolves around the web engineering. He has  only recently fallen in love with functional programming. Follow him on Twitter @samueleresca .
	A Pace-Layered Integration Architecture Daniel Toomey is a Principal Consultant for Mexia as well as a Microsoft Azure MVP, a Microsoft Certified Solution Expert in Cloud Platform (MCSE), a Microsoft Certified Azure Developer (MCPD), and a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) in BizTalk Server 2010. He’s also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and a published Pluralsight author. He is a frequent speaker at Australian community events, including the Brisbane Azure User Group (which he currently leads), the Global Integration Bootcamp, the Global Azure Bootcamp, Xamarin Dev Days, and the Brisbane BizTalk User Group which he founded in 2005. He has also twice presented at INTEGRATE in London, as well as at Microsoft Tech Summit and at Microsoft Ignite in Australia. Dan has authored two courses for Pluralsight and is also an active blogger. Follow him on Twitter @daniel2me .