# F# Weekly #27, 2020 – 2020 Board of Trustees Election and .NET Conf Microservices **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** news\ **Created:** [July 4, 2020, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-27-2020-2020-board-of-trustees-election-and-net-conf-microservices/1361 "2020-07-04T11:17:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: **News** - [2020 Board of Trustees Election](http://foundation.fsharp.org/2020_board_of_trustees_election) - [Architecting Cloud Native .NET Applications for Azure](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/cloud-native/) - [ASP.NET Core gRPC for WCF Developers](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/grpc-for-wcf-developers/) - [Serverless apps: Architecture, patterns, and Azure implementation](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/serverless/) > **Videos and Slides** - [002 Expecto first steps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roYZ7THZAKk) - Henrik Feldt - [003 Expecto interactive testing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tQvfZOYsBw) - Henrik Feldt - [ASP.NET Core Series: MVC and Razor Pages](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GRFDkeCv3k) - [ASP.NET Core Series: Getting started with the Worker templates](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xN1PtLzFK0) - [Introduction to Kubeflow - June 29, 2020 Live Stream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7HUh4AvSOc) - Luis Quintanilla > **Blogs** - [Take F# to the stars](https://functionalfunsies.com/fun/2020/06/30/take-it-to-the-stars/) - Luis Ferrao - [GitHub Actions for .NET Core NuGet packages](https://dusted.codes/github-actions-for-dotnet-core-nuget-packages) - Dustin Moris Gorski - [FsCheck: An introduction](https://simontaite.com/fscheck-an-introduction/) - Simon Taite - [Understanding F# map/bind](https://blog.jonathanchannon.com/2020-06-28-understanding-fsharp-map-and-bind/) - Jonathan Channon - [Getting started with Compost](https://compostjs.github.io/compost/tutorial.html) - Tomas Petricek - [Functional Pearls: Composable data visualizations](https://compostjs.github.io/compost/paper.pdf) - [About Scaling Model-View-Update](https://thomasbandt.com/scaling-model-view-update) - Thomas Bandt - [Test your UI by treating it as a state machine](https://hashset.dev/article/12_test_your_ui_by_treating_it_as_a_state_machine) - Kai Ito - [What's New for TypeScript and F#](https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2020/06/29/fsharp-typecript-updates.aspx) - David Ramel - [Type-Safe Single Page Apps: F# Vs. TypeScript](https://thomasbandt.com/type-safe-spa-fable-fsharp-vs-typescript) - Thomas Bandt - [Dispelling Six Myths About F#](https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/dispelling-six-myths-about-f/) - Prashant Pathak - [F# Data Type Providers in .Net Core](https://lukemerrett.com/fsharp-data-type-providers/) - Luke Merrett **F# vNext** > - [WIP] [Warn on invalided FSI directives](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/9601) - New language suggestions: - [Ease conversion between Units of Measure (UoM) and undecorated numerals and simplify casting](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/892) - [Return "None" when doing `string None`, instead of empty string](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/891) - [Allow Operators.string to be used in more places (prevent FS0670); optimize generated IL code](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/890) **GitHub projects** - [pimbrouwers/Falco](https://github.com/pimbrouwers/Falco) - A functional toolkit for building brilliant ASP.NET Core applications using F# - [Tzeroxik/FSharp-gRPC-template](https://github.com/Tzeroxik/FSharp-gRPC-template) - A dotnet core template for starting gRPC projects with F# - [mcintyre321/OneOf](https://github.com/mcintyre321/OneOf) - Easy to use F#-like ~discriminated~ unions for C# with exhaustive compile time matching - [kaeedo/Scrutiny](https://github.com/kaeedo/Scrutiny/) - Randomly test state machines (such as your UI) by randomly navigating through transitions **New Releases** - [Giraffe Template 1.0.0](https://t.co/Y3VGdCtN6v) - [FSharp.ValidationBlocks 0.9.7](https://www.nuget.org/packages/FSharp.ValidationBlocks/) - [Pulsar.Client 1.4.1](https://twitter.com/Lanayx/status/1277925626368884737) - [AltCover (.net coverage built in #fsharp) 7.1.776](https://twitter.com/stevegilham1/status/1278292480367251456) > That’s all for now. Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – [#26, 2020](http://sergeytihon.com/2020/06/27/f-weekly-26-2020-f-5-and-f-tools-update-for-june-net-5-0-preview-6/)