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An Introduction to Structured Data at Etsy
Etsy recently published a blog post detailing how they store and manage structured data. The Etsy team make extensive use of taxonomies, and store the structured data with JSON files.
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Update: .NET Standard Adoption
A few weeks ago, Microsoft released an update on the current adoption of .NET Standard by the community. The .NET Standard is a formal specification of the APIs that are common across the existing .NET implementations for different platforms. It allows a developer to create .NET libraries that can be consumed across the different .NET implementations (thus allowing cross-platform development).
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Reasons for Cancelling a Move to Microservices
During a period in which Steven Lemon and his team had less features to implement, the technical leadership at the company decided to move their existing monolith into a microservices architecture. After a month of preparation, they realized that microservices would be hurting their development process. They decided to stay with the monolith and Lemon recently wrote a case study of their findings.
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Contributing to the Kubernetes Community: Getting Started Q&A with Contributor Nikhita Raghunath
InfoQ caught up with Nikhita Raghunath, a contributor to the Kubernetes community. She outlines some quick tips or tricks especially for the impatient to get started and to move up the contributor ladder. She talks about the organization of the community, the tools, etc. to enable a better understanding of how and where to contribute.
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Amazon Releases a Preview of the New AWS Tools for PowerShell
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced it would release a preview of refactored AWS Tools for PowerShell, allowing developers and administrators to manage their AWS services from the PowerShell scripting environment.
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Microsoft Releases .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8
Earlier this month Microsoft released .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The new release contains bug fixes and enhancements for the ASP.NET Core, CoreFX, and CoreCLR product areas. There are no new features since the framework entered the freezing period in the previous release, and all development efforts are focused on stability and reliability.
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Java on iOS and Android via Gluon
Gluon has released beta support for Java applications running natively on iOS. The result is one application and one codebase running across many devices.
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Microsoft Releases Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 8 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 8
Earlier this month Microsoft released Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 8 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 8. Following the synchronized release calendar, the new previews were available on the same day as .NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 Preview 8.
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Octant: Local and Real-Time Dashboard for Kubernetes Workloads
VMware has open-sourced Octant, a tool to help developers understand how their applications are running in a Kubernetes cluster. Developers can graphically visualize Kubernetes objects dependencies, forward local ports to a running pod, inspect pod logs, and navigate through different clusters. Moreover, users can extend Octant’s capabilities by installing or authoring a plugin.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Ultra Disk Storage to General Availability
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Storage - a new Managed Disks offering, which delivers unprecedented and extremely scalable performance with sub-millisecond latency for the most demanding Azure Virtual Machines and container workloads.
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Introduction to Stateful Property Based Testing - Lambda Days 2019
Tomasz Kowal, tech lead at ClubCollect, presented at Lambda Days 2019 an introduction to stateful property based testing. Property-based testing helped major companies find bugs which were not caught through example-based testing. Stateful property-based testing leverages an underlying model of the system under test to generate interesting test sequences, increasing the likelihood of finding bugs.
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eBay Increases Listing Completion Rate by 30% by Porting Barcode Scanner to the Web With WebAssembly
EBay recently reported a positive business outcome by using WebAssembly to deliver a code scanning feature to its mobile web users. The Draft Completion Rate for sellers’ listing increased by 30% by porting the in-house C++ scanning library to WebAssembly, and using it concurrently with two competing solutions.
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.NET Framework 4.8 Available on Windows Update, WSUS, MU Catalog
Earlier this month Microsoft announced that .NET Framework 4.8 is available on Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and Microsoft Update (MU) Catalog. The new release includes quality and reliability fixes in multiple product areas, including ASP.NET, Windows Forms, and WPF. All fixes were based on feedback received since the .NET Framework 4.8 initial release.
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Vaadin 14 Simplifies Progressive Web App Development on the Java Platform
Vaadin, an open source web framework for Java developers, recently introduced their latest long term support version 14. This release comes with multiple new UI components, simplified theming and support for npm as the frontend package manager. InfoQ spoke to Matti Tahvonen, developer advocate at Vaadin, about this release.
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QCon San Francisco '19: Track Hosts from WeWork, Microsoft, Tesla Focus on Architecture, ML, Culture
Registrations for the 13th annual QCon San Francisco (Nov 11-15, 2019) are off to a great start. With less than 15 weeks until the conference, and savings of $645 before the early bird ends on August 24th, there is no better time to reserve your spot for this professional software development conference.