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| California has enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) of 2018 which, starting on January 1, 2020, would grant consumers several rights with respect to information about them that businesses collect, store, sold, and share. This is the first legislation of its kind in the United States. (News) |
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 We tend to install a lot of CLI’s, and they can be tricky to configure. The Azure Cloud Shell is a browser-based CLI with zero commitments or configuration on your part. (Article) |
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 Peer Stritzinger and Kilian Holzinger discuss and show cyber-physical systems implemented with FRP-Erlang running on GRiSP, a bare-metal board running Erlang. (Presentation) |
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 Java’s Serialization feature has garnered several years' worth of security exploits and zero day attacks. This article discusses the current state of the technology and what can be done, both now and in the future, to protect against serialization flaws. (Article) |
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| Visual Studio 2017 15.8 is now available, bringing a large collection of bug fixes and usability enhancements to the editor. Notably, this includes support for F# 4.5 and TypeScript 3.0. (News) |
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| MvRx (pronounced “mavericks”) helps Android developers implement common features and integrate their apps properly with the OS. MvRx is written in Kotlin and powers all Android development at Airbnb, writes Airbnb engineer Gabriel Peal. (News) |
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 At the 2017 Explore DDD conference, Julie Lerman, a self-described Serial DDD Advocate, spoke about how to approach Domain-Driven Design with Tender Loving Care. InfoQ sat down with Lerman to ask about how she introduces DDD to new clients, and helps them be successful. (Article) |
 The microservice architecture is still the most popular architectural style for distributed systems. But Kubernetes and the cloud native movement have redefined certain aspects of application design and development at scale. Modern developers must be fluent in a programming language to implement the business functionality, and equally fluent in cloud native technologies. (Article) |
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 Natalie Evans Harris discusses how to incorporate ethical decision-making and identify ethical dilemmas working with data. Harris provides the tools to think more responsibly about data practices when writing reports, creating models, scrubbing data sets, or using data from other providers. (Presentation)
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