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ASP.NET Core in .NET 8 Preview 5: Improved Debugging, Blazor Updates, SignalR Reconnects, and More
.NET 8 Preview 5 brings significant additions to ASP.NET Core. Notable enhancements include an improved debugging experience for ASP.NET Core, changes regarding the servers and middleware, the introduction of new features and improvements in Blazor, enhanced API authoring capabilities, seamless reconnect functionality in SignalR, and improvements and changes in authentication and authorization.
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Canonical Sunbeam Aims to Simplify Migrating from Small-Scale Legacy IT Solutions to OpenStack
Canonical has announced a new open-source project to enable organizations to transition their small-scale proprietary IT solutions to OpenStack. Named Sunbeam, the project is free of charge and does not require an expensive professional services engagement, says Canonical
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GitHub Push Protection Moved to General Availability
GitHub has moved push protection into general availability and made it free for all public repositories. Push protection helps detect secrets in code as changes are pushed. As part of the GA release, push protection is also available to all private repositories with a GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) license.
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QCon New York 2023: Day Two Recap
Day Two of the 9th annual QCon New York conference was held on June 14th, 2023, at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn, New York. This three-day event, organized by C4Media, included a keynote address by Alicia Dwyer Cianciolo and presentations from four conference tracks and one sponsored track.
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CBL-Mariner: Azure Linux Distribution Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Azure Linux container host for AKS. Available on GitHub under the CBL-Mariner project codename, the lightweight Linux distribution includes only the packages needed to run workloads on a cloud environment.
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Introduction of System.ServiceModel 6.0 for Calling WCF/CoreWCF
The release of System.ServiceModel 6.0 provides client support for calling WCF/CoreWCF functions. These NuGet packages, collectively known as the WCF client, enable .NET platform applications to interact seamlessly with WCF or CoreWCF services.
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AWS Lambda Now Supports Ruby 3.2 Runtime
AWS continues to bring support for new versions of runtimes for AWS Lambda. Recently, the company announced the support of the Ruby 3.2 runtime.
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Datadog Creates Scalable Data Ingestion Architecture
Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs.
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How Resilience Can Help to Get Better at Resolving Incidents
Applying resilience throughout the incident lifecycle by taking a holistic look at the sociotechnical system can help to turn incidents into learning opportunities. Resilience can help folks get better at resolving incidents and improve collaboration. It can also give organizations time to realize their plans.
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Improving Developer Experience in a Small Organization
A way to improve developer experience is by removing time-consuming tasks and bottlenecks from developers and from the platform team that supports them. How you introduce changes matters; creating an understanding of the “why” before performing a change can smoothen the rollout.
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Swift OpenAPI Generator Aims at Streamlining HTTP Client/Server Communication
Apple has introduced a new open source package, the Swift OpenAPI Generator, aimed at generating the code required to handle client/server communication through an HTTP API based on its OpenAPI document.
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QCon New York 2023: Day One Recap
Day One of the 9th annual QCon New York conference was held on June 13th, 2023, at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn, New York. This three-day event, organized by C4Media, included a keynote address by Radia Perlman and presentations from four conference tracks and one sponsored track.
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OpenAI Announces Function Calling, Allowing Developers to Describe Functions
OpenAI has introduced updates to the API, including a capability called function calling, which allows developers to describe functions to GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 and have the models create code to execute those functions.
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Azure API Center for Centralized API Discovery and Governance in Preview
At the recent annual Build conference, Microsoft introduced the preview of Microsoft Azure API Center – a new Azure service and a part of the Azure API Management platform that enables tracking APIs in a centralized location for discovery, reuse, and governance.
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LinkedIn’s LIquid Graph Database: Scaling Real-Time Data Access for 930+ Million Members
LinkedIn recently published how LIquid, its graph database, automates the indexing and real-time access of all connections to members, schools, skills, companies, positions, jobs, events, etc. This knowledge graph, known as the Economic Graph, has 270 billion edges and growing, currently handling a workload of 2 million queries per second.