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11/12/2019

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15/07/2019

Learning a website you use has been breached or hacked is alarming—you wonder if your personal data is at risk. But you also fear that your password may have been compromised, especially if the password you use for that site was a simple one that was easily hackable. Instead of wondering and worrying, you can check out a couple of websites and one Chrome extension that can tell you if a breach occurred at a site that you use or have used in the past.

If you're worried a password you use to log in to a site was leaked during a data breach, read about two websites and a Chrome extension that can alert you if this happens.

02/05/2019

24/04/2019

Website-building solutions have been around a long time. But a new generation has arrived. One that exploits new technologies like responsive and mobile platforms. Today, you can build anything for a client or a business. Anything from a simple one-page site to a professional online store. You can do so without any need for HTML skills or design experience. All that's necessary is to find the best website builder out there that will meet your needs, but that's no easy task. This article will save you the time it would take to search for the right solution.

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15/04/2019

The following guide serves as an excellent learning roadmap for functional programming. It can be used to track our level of knowledge regarding functional programming. This guide was developed for the Fantasyland institute of learning for the LambdaConf conference. It was designed for statically-typed functional programming languages that implement category theory.

This article serves as an excellent learning roadmap for functional programming. This roadmap talks about five levels of difficulty: Beginner, Advanced Beginner, Intermediate, Proficient, and Expert.

11/04/2019

Microsoft yesterday announced that Live Share is now generally available and now comes included in Visual Studio 2019. This release comes with a lot of updates based on the feedbacks the team got since the public preview of Live Share started including a read-only mode, support for C++ and Python, and more.

Microsoft yesterday announced that Live Share is now generally available and now comes included in Visual Studio 2019. This release comes a read-only mode, support for C++ and Python, and more.

10/04/2019

5G – or “fifth generation” – mobile internet is coming very soon. It promises much faster data download speeds – 10 to 20 times faster than we have now. With an improvement in upload speeds, wider coverage and more stable connections, 5G is something to watch out for.

The 5G network to be launched possibly next year is already causing waves of excitement. Lets find out if 5G will be a trick or a treat for its users!

08/04/2019

Multi layered software architecture is one of the most popular architectural patterns today. It moderates the increasing complexity of modern applications. It also makes it easier to work in a more agile manner. That’s important when you consider the dominance of DevOps and other similar methodologies today. Let’s take a look at how a multi layered software architecture works, and what the advantages and disadvantages of it are.

Multi layered software architecture is one of the most popular architectural patterns around today. Its flexibility and scalability make it incredibly useful for dealing with some of the key challenges in software development.

05/04/2019

Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2019, the next major version of its signature IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for software design. This exciting news has come right on the heels of Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub. According to Microsoft, the company is still in the “early planning phase” for Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio for Mac. Release timing will be shared “in the coming months,” with the company simply promising “to deliver Visual Studio 2019 quickly and iteratively.” Along with general improvements to make the developer tool more reliable and more productive, Microsoft has some concrete goals in mind.

Microsoft's vision for Visual Studio 2019, the next major version of its signature IDE, emphasizes collaboration, repository and AI support as well as ...

02/04/2019

The team at Facebook open-sourced Magma, a software platform that will help operators for deploying mobile networks easily. This platform comes with a software-centric distributed mobile packet core and tools for automating network management. Magma extends existing network topologies to the edge of rural deployments, private LTE (Long Term Evolution) networks or wireless enterprise deployments instead of replacing existing EPC deployments for large networks.

Yesterday, the team at Facebook open sourced Magma, a software platform that will help operators for deploying mobile networks easily. This platform comes with a software-centric distributed mobile packet core and tools for automating network management.

01/04/2019

There are businesses that are highly dependent on their services hosted online. It’s important that their servers are up and running smoothly during their business hours. Stock markets and casinos are examples of such institutions. They are businesses that deal with a huge sum of money and they expect their servers to work properly during their core business hours. Hackers may extort money by threatening to take down or block these servers during these hours. Denial of service (DoS) attack is the most common methodology used to carry out these kinds of attacks. In this post, we will get to know about DoS attacks and their various types.

Hackers may extort money by threatening businesses such as stock markets and casinos, etc. to take down or block these servers during these hours. Denial of service (DoS) attack is the most common methodology used to carry out these attacks. Read this article to know more about DoS attacks and their...

29/03/2019

This year, Netflix decided to make Spring Boot as their core Java framework, while leveraging the community’s contributions via Spring Cloud Netflix. The team at Netflix started working towards fully operating in the cloud in 2007. It also built several cloud infrastructure libraries and systems including, Ribbon, an Inter Process Communication (IPC) library for load balancing, Eureka, an AWS service registry for service discovery, and Hystrix, latency and fault tolerance library for fault tolerance.

This year, Netflix decided to make Spring Boot as their core Java framework, while leveraging the community’s contributions via Spring Cloud Netflix. The Netflix team worked with the Pivotal team for this transition.