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Five Years of Lets Encrypt
Five years ago, a non-profit organisation set up a public certificate authority, with the intent of enabling websites to become more secure by default through automated provisioning of TLS certificates. Five years later, and Lets Encrypt is putting together its own top-level root CA, which will be served by default next year - but some older Android versions won't be able to use it.
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Migrating a Monolith towards Microservices with the Strangler Fig Pattern
ScholarPack has migrated away from its monolith backend using a Strangler Fig pattern. They applied incremental development and continuous delivery to target customers’ needs, in the meanwhile strangling their monolith.
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.NET 5 Breaking Changes: Historic Technologies
In part two of our .NET 5 coverage, we take a look back at historic .NET technologies that never made the jump to .NET Core. What’s interesting about these technologies is their APIs were copied across, hinting that Microsoft was considering a .NET Core implementation of them in the future.
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ASP.NET Core Improvements in .NET 5
Earlier this month, at the .NET Conf 2020, Microsoft released the .NET 5 platform. This version includes a broad set of new features and improvements, which are also related to the ASP.NET Core framework. This release's efforts focus primarily on performance improvements, followed by other features regarding Blazor, SignalR, MVC, OpenAPI support, and Azure AD authentication integration.
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Github Releases Catalyst to Ease the Development of Web Components in Complex Applications
GitHub recently released the first major iteration of Catalyst, a set of patterns and techniques for developing with web components in complex applications. Catalyst strives to be small and is used for the GitHub website that is entirely written in vanilla JavaScript and web components.
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.NET 5 Runtime Improvements: from Functional to Performant Implementations
During a no-slides presentation at .NET Conf 2020, software architects from the .NET runtime team presented several .NET 5 runtime improvements and how they achieved them, including ARM64 support, HTTP/3, and single-file applications.
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Google Launches Healthcare Natural Language API and AutoML Entity Extraction for Healthcare
In a recent blog post, Google announced the public preview of two new fully-managed AI tools: Healthcare Natural Language API and AutoML Entity Extraction for Healthcare. Both tools can assist healthcare professionals in reviewing and analyzing medical documents in a repeatable, scalable way.
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Google Releases Objectron Dataset for 3D Object Recognition AI
Google Research announced the release of Objectron, a machine-learning dataset for 3D object recognition. The dataset contains 15k video segments and 4M images with ground-truth annotations, along with tools for using the data to train AI models.
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.NET 5 Breaking Changes to the Base Class Library
The upcoming release of .NET 5 introduces many breaking changes. While the vast majority of them involve edge cases or previously incorrect behavior, some may take developers by surprise. In the first of this multi-part series, InfoQ looks at the Base Class Library.
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Microsoft Releases Git Experience in Visual Studio
Earlier this month, during the 2020 edition of .NET Conf, Microsoft released the latest version of Visual Studio for Windows. One of the most critical features of this release was what Microsoft called "The Git Experience": a set of tools that makes Git the default source control experience in Visual Studio 2019, allowing the developer to control a Git repository directly from Visual Studio.
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How x86 to arm64 Translation Works in Rosetta 2
Along with its plan to transition their Macintosh line from Intel CPUs to its own CPUs, dubbed Apple Silicon, Apple announced Rosetta 2, a binary translation software that aims to smooth out the process. Thanks to Rosetta 2, most x86 programs will be able to execute after an initial translation step.
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Docker Pauses Image Expiration Enforcement, Announces Subscription Tiers
Docker announced that they are pausing enforcement of the changes related to image retention until mid-2021. Earlier, they had announced a change in policies to reduce overall resource consumption on Docker.
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A Dozen Cisco Vulnerabilities at Once
A security researcher has identified 12 vulnerabilities that exploit Cisco Security Manager. The flaws include deserialization, remote code execution, and arbitrary file access.
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QCon Plus: Summary of the Non-Technical Skills for Technical Folks Track
Qcon Plus ran in November 2020. Once of the tracks focused on Non-Technical Skills for Technical Folks. Hosted by Randy Shoup of eBay, the track concentrated on some of the important people skills needed for effective communication and collaboration in and outside teams.
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HashiCorp Vault Adds Tokenization and Auto-Join Features
HashiCorp has released Vault 1.6, adding new features to their secrets and identity management platform. Cloud auto-join facilitates automatically attaching new Vault nodes to the cluster. The transform secrets engine now supports tokenization to better secure data stored outside of Vault. Additional features include integration with key management services and support for seal migration.