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Securing web.config with Encryption Certificates on Windows and Azure
A major area where security is often lax is the web.config file. Usually stored in plain text, an intruder who gains access to this file can then easily access databases and other resources both internal and external. With this technique, secrets in your web.config can be encrypted using the Windows certificate store
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Angular Application Generator - an Architecture Overview
It’s clear there are pros and cons to keep in mind before making decision to generate code, but what's the best approach to generating source code for Angular: templating or AST handling? In this article, we’ll take Angular source code generation to the next level by diving into techniques to make this consistent and maintainable, based on a DSL mechanism.
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Monitoring SRE's Golden Signals
Golden signals are increasingly popular these days due to the rise of SRE. This article outlines what golden signals are, and how to monitor and use them in the context of various common services.
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Web Development InfoQ Trends Report
In this trends report, we take a look at the web development space, which is always an interesting one for us with a new JavaScript framework launched seemingly every couple of minutes.
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InfoQ Call for Articles
InfoQ provides software engineers with the opportunity to share experiences gained using innovator and early adopter stage techniques and technologies with the wider industry. We are always on the lookout for quality articles and we encourage practitioners and domain experts to submit feature-length (2,000 to 3,000 word) papers that are timely, educational and practical.
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3 Easy Solutions to Optimize Images on the Fly
When pages are slow to load, images are frequently the culprit. The megabyte size of web pages is steadily growing, and images are by far the largest component. In this article, Gilad David Maayan shows how image optimization can be achieved easily and automatically with a few lines of code, using three different cloud services, dramatically improve page load times and bandwidth usage.
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Can Cordova Fit Your Target Industry?
Cordova is an effective tool when in the right hands and when used for purposes it can cope with. This article discusses what app categories are the good, the bad, and the best for Cordova development.
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Four Tips for Working with Angular Components
If you're a beginner to Angular, you'll quickly find that components are some of the core building blocks of an Angular application. Regardless of what flavor of Angular you're working with, be it AngularJS or Angular 2+, learning to use components well is critical. In this article, Jonathan Saring offers four tips on working with Angular components.
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Turbocharge React with GraphQL
GraphQL and React are two Facebook technologies that have grown up together. In this article, Shane Stillwell shows how GraphQL, a strongly-typed JavaScript-based language, helps developers build relationships with their data and improves marshaling across service boundaries. GraphQL is extensible, works alongside REST, and can be implemented in any back-end software solution.
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Benchmarks Don't Have to Die
Are tracing and profiling the future of performance engineering outside of the fast-moving JavaScript community? Do all benchmarks have a shelf-life? In this article, Matt Fleming talks about benchmarks and what keeps the good ones alive and why others die. By adapting benchmarks, they can live forever.
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Article Series: Reactive JavaScript
Reactive programming techniques are becoming more prevalent in the constantly changing JavaScript landscape. This article series hopes to provide a snapshot of where we're at, sharing multiple techniques; variations on a theme. From new languages like Elm to the way Angular has adopted RxJS, there's something for every developer, no matter what they're working with.
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Q&A with Paul Daniels and Luis Atencio on RxJS in Action
RxJS In Action provides a solid introduction to RxJS and lays out what the future of reactive JavaScript programming looks like. In this Q&A session, authors Paul Daniels and Luis Atencio talk more about RxJS, where it fits into the JavaScript landscape and how it affects JavaScript developers.