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Airbnb Improves Web Performance with HTTP Streaming
Airbnb introduced HTTP streaming to improve the page-loading performance of their website. They reduced the First Contentful Paint (FCP) metric by around 100 milliseconds on every page tested, including the homepage. They also minimized the impact of slow backend queries on the loading times.
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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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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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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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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.
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C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code
Microsoft has introduced the C# Dev Kit, a new extension to Visual Studio Code, offering an enhanced C# development environment for Linux, macOS and Windows. This kit, combined with the C# extension, uses an open-source Language Server Protocol (LSP) host to provide an efficient and configurable environment.
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AWS DMS Serverless Brings Automated Scalability and Performance Optimization with Database Migration
AWS recently announced a new option in its Database Migration Service (DMS) called serverless. It automatically sets up, scales, and manages migration resources to make database migrations easier and more cost-effective.
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.NET Upgrade Assistant: CLI Tool Synced with Visual Studio Extension Engine
A new and updated version of the Upgrade Assistant CLI tool. The latest release ensures that the CLI tool now includes all the new features which are already available in the Visual Studio Extension. The latest release now offers developers a choice between Visual Studio and CLI experiences, allowing them to take advantage of the latest features and improvements offered by the .NET upgrade tool.
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.NET Hot Reload Adds Support for Modifying Generics
In the .NET 8 Preview 4 release, .NET Hot Reload implements support for modifying generic methods, reducing the number of changes that require restarting for the change to take effect.
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Latest Updates for Azure App Service Presented at Microsoft Build 2023
The Microsoft Build 2023 event showcased the latest updates and additions to the Azure App Service. The event, held in person in Seattle, included some group sessions, demonstrations and Q&A sessions on Azure App Service with such topics as changes within PremiumV3, Automatic Scaling or memory optimisation for ASEv3.