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The 2018 InfoQ Editors’ Recommended Reading List: Part Two
As part of our core values of sharing knowledge, the InfoQ editors were keen to capture and share our book and article recommendations for 2018, so that others can benefit from this too. In this second part we are sharing the final batch of recommendations
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.NET Core and DevOps
.NET Core was designed with devops in mind, and this article will cover how the .NET Core projects can benefit from the build automation and application monitoring intrinsic to the platform. The author also shows how the command-line accessibility of .NET Core makes this easier to implement.
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The Current State of Blockchain - Panel Discussion (Part 1)
The first two panelists introduce themselves and give their view of the current state of blockchain. John Davies, CTO and co-founder of Velo Payments, and Conor Svensson, author of the web3j library for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain, give their view on the current state of blockchain.
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JavaScript and Web Development InfoQ Trends Report
This InfoQ Trends Report looks at the current trends with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and web development in general, exploring technologies and options gaining further adoption, and those approaching their end of life. The rate of new JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and WebAssembly standards, as well as frameworks and other web technologies continues to accelerate substantially.
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Using Golang to Build Microservices at The Economist: A Retrospective
Microservices written in Go was a key component of a new system that would enable The Economist to deliver scalable, high performing services and quickly iterate new products. Go's baked in concurrency and API support along with its design as a static, compiled language enabled a distributed eventing system. Overall, The Economist team's experience with Go has been a positive experience.
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Book Review and Q&A: ASP.NET Core in Action by Andrew Lock
ASP.NET Core in Action by Andrew Lock, covers ASP.NET Core from the beginners start to an ending, with the fundamental knowledge to build web applications using this modern, highly available, highly scalable and cross-platform framework. If you are new to ASP.NET MVC programming, the book gives a good overview of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern as well as the legacy from the .NET Framework
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Micronaut Tutorial: Part 2: Easy Distributed Tracing, JWT Security and AWS Lambda Deployment
In this second Micronaut tutorial article we are going to add several features to our app: distributed tracing, security via JWT and a serverless function. Moreover, we will discuss the user input validation capabilities offered by Micronaut.
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Back to the Future with Relational NoSQL
This article outlines some of the consistency issues NoSQL databases have with distributed transactions, showing how FaunaDB has solved the problems using the Calvin protocol and a virtual clock.
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Exploring Azure Service Fabric Mesh: A Platform for Building Mission Critical Microservices
Azure has released a preview of Service Fabric Mesh, a platform targeted at microservice developers who do not want the operational responsibility of running an underlying orchestration platform. InfoQ recently sat down with Chacko Daniel, principal technical PM at Microsoft, to explore the details.
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Distributed Caching with ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core applications deployed to the cloud can receive performance benefits from the use of distributed caching. Matthew Groves explores how Couchbase Server can serve this purpose well. Couchbase Server is a memory-first database that is great for use as a distributed cache, and ASP.NET Core makes it easy to utilize this database in your applications.
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Sentiment Analysis: What's with the Tone?
Sentiment analysis is widely applied in voice of the customer (VOC) applications. In this article, the authors discuss NLP-based Sentiment Analysis based on machine learning (ML) and lexicon-based approaches using KNIME data analysis tools.
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Will Cloud Computing Kill Open Source Development?
While open source development is not going to disappear, the future of commercial open source is not very promising. Cloud providers are adopting open source software without necessarily adding value, or supporting future development. No industry consensus exists on the best way to fund open source development. Many continue to believe that open source software should be free.