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C# 8: Generic Attributes
Attributes have been part of .NET since the beginning. As such, they were created before generics were introduced and never quite caught up. Though supported by the CLR, before this proposal C# didn’t offer the ability to use generic attributes.
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TypeScript Roadmap: Enhanced Type System, More Productivity, and Improved Linting
Microsoft has detailed the priorities that will drive TypeScript development during the first six months of 2019. Albeit not yet committed, the current roadmap includes enhanced core type system, maximizing forward compatibility with new ECMA features, improving tools, including editor support and linting, and more.
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C# 8: Caller Expression Attribute for Assertions and Automated Testing
Currently C# supports caller info attributes for file name/path, line number, and the name of the calling method or property. With the Caller Expression Attribute proposal, expressions are added to the list.
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Baidu Announces "OpenEdge", an Open-Source Edge Computing Platform
Recently Baidu Inc. announced China's first open-source edge computing platform called OpenEdge - allowing developers to build light, secure and scalable edge applications. The OpenEdge platform brings processing power to "edge devices" like smart home appliances and wearables.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery Enhancements
Last week, Microsoft announced several enhancements to their Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery services. The changes in the announcement include additional geographies for storing discovery and assessment metadata, along with additional supported options for migrations.
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Ockam Brings Blockchain Serverless Identification to IoT Devices
Ockam is a serverless platform that aims to make it easier for IoT developers to add blockchain-based identity, trust, and interoperability in their IoT devices. Ockam has recently open sourced its SDK for Golang. InfoQ has spoken with Ockam CEO and founder Matthew Gregory to learn more.
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Engineering a Generation Z Culture
The next generation of engineers brings a new set of challenges and opportunities for recruitment, building teams, and retaining talent. Barbara McCarthy, director of engineering at Hubspot, spoke about engineering a generation Z culture at Women in Tech Dublin 2018.
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C# 8: Type Inference for the New Keyword
In many situations, there is only one possible type allowed in a given place. And yet C# still requires you to explicitly list the type. If the Target-typed `new` expression proposal is adopted, such boilerplate code will no longer be necessary.
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Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.6.0 Update Streamlines Development Experience
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced an update to their Azure Blockchain Workbench service which improves the development experience of building consortium-based blockchain applications. More specifically, this update includes new features such as application versioning, updated messaging capabilities and streamlined smart contract development.
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Boosting Team Inclusion at the Workplace Using Artificial Intelligence Technologies
Boosting Team Inclusion at the Workplace using Technologies establishes that active inclusion enables diverse teams to exceed their performance goals. Gartner suggests leveraging new artificial intelligence powered applications in three areas: sourcing inclusive-ready candidates, analyzing teams' interaction, and training team leaders.
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AWS Launches New Document-Oriented Database Compatible with MongoDB
AWS just released their 10th database service (15th, if you count each engine offered in the relational database services). This one, called Amazon DocumentDB, stores semi-structured data inside a scalable, highly-available managed service. While offering a MongoDB-compatible API, DocumentDB is not running MongoDB software, which caused hand-wringing among some tech watchers.
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Progressing with a Gender-Blind Attitude
Individual skills should determine success; we should not distinguish people by gender, said Oksana Afonina at Women in Tech Dublin. In her talk, she explained how she focuses on her own skills and performance, those being the main traits to benefit from career-wise. Change starts with you, she said; there are always opportunities to empower others around you and scale your impact.
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ASP.NET Core 3.0 Projects Go on a Diet
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App, the primary dependency for more ASP.NET Core projects, has 150 explicitly listed dependencies. In order to improve long-term supportability, over 30 of these will be dropped in ASP.NET Core 3.0.
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Amazon Updates SQS to Support Amazon VPC Endpoints Using AWS PrivateLink
Amazon announced last month that its fully managed message queuing service Simple Queue Service (SQS) supports Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Endpoints using AWS PrivateLink. Now customers can have with this update private access to SQS and not have to use public IPs and traverse the public internet.
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Previewing Swift 5 Result Type
One of the most awaited proposals for Swift 5, Result, has already landed into the language. The Result type forces the programmer to explicitly handle the failure and success cases before they can gain access to the actual value. Let’s have a look at how it is implemented, how you can use it, and why it was needed.