REST and GraphQL are two ways to send data over HTTP. The REST-based approach is the traditional way of doing so and has gained a very high adoption rate in many application stacks in the last years.
GraphQL is often presented as a revolutionary new way to think about APIs.  

ReSharper 2016.1.1. The update helps ReSharper see controllers outside of ASP.NET MVC areas and folders again (RSRP-458398, RSRP-455213); adds smart, license-aware update checks; enables bulk renaming in TypeScript (RSRP-458570); fixes Go to Everything so that it works after suspending and resuming ReSharper (RSRP-458404); improves performance in solutions with large JavaScript and JSON files (RSRP-458363); fixes pessimistic mode in value analysis (RSRP-458210); makes IL Viewer available via the Navigate To pop-up (RSRP-458323); improves details of ReactJS support (RSRP-458229, RSRP-458242, RSRP-458308). See all fixes in ReSharper 2016.1.1.  

For now, Microsoft's .NET Core milestones page shows .NET 5.0 about 53 percent complete, with 1,066 issues open and 1,216 issues closed.

Highlights of .NET 5 include:

• Developers will have more choice on runtime experiences.
• Java interoperability will be available on all platforms.
• Objective-C and Swift interoperability will be supported on multiple operating systems.
• CoreFX will be extended to support static compilation of .NET (ahead-of-time – AOT), smaller footprints and support for more operating systems. 

You can easily compare JavaScript graphing libraries by choosing the options you want.

You might not sign up for all of them (particularly those around classes and inheritance), but these ‘Uncle Bob’-inspired tips might help you think more about how you name things and structure your code. 

Microsoft has released version 2.1 beta of its open-source Python Tools for Visual Studio, adding support for additional Web frameworks, access to the tools in Visual Studio Express, and integration with Azure publishing.

Dev Drive definitely speeds up the build time and that leads into faster software development. I got approx 25% improvement into build times simply by copying my source code folders into dev drive. 

Build your own web server and explore different ways to handle threads, tasks, workflows, routing, sessions, and much more 

You can download .NET 6 Preview 1, for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

• Installers and binaries
• Container images
• Linux packages
• Release notes
• Known issues
• GitHub issue tracker

.NET 6 has been tested with Visual Studio 16.9 Preview 4 and Visual Studio for Mac 8.9. We recommend you use those builds if you want to try .NET 6.