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January 24, 2022

So you want to be a Web3 developer

The latest industry buzzword is creating an opening for ambitious developers to contribute to an exciting emerging ecosystem, underpinned by distributed ledgers and cryptocurrency. But there are plenty of caveats on Web3 to contend with first. Read more ▶

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Sponsored by Aruba: It’s Time for Networks to Join the Agility Revolution

Consumption-based networking delivers the predictability, flexibility, and performance needed to achieve business outcomes in the post-pandemic economy.

Of hacks and patches

It’s obvious that cybersecurity becomes a bigger concern every day. Stay in the cloud, and take responsibility for the open source software you use.

Why you should buy, not build, a customer data platform

Creating a single source of truth for customer data and a 360-degree customer view is a complex undertaking. Buying a solution rather than building one streamlines the process.

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Rust 1.58.1 fixes dangerous race condition

Vulnerability would allow an attacker to trick a privileged program into deleting files and directories that the attacker otherwise could not access or delete.

JDK 18: The new features in Java 18

Due in March 2022, Java 18 will incubate a vector API, preview pattern matching for switch statements, adopt UTF-8 as the default character set, and include a simple web server.

Understand Diffie-Hellman key exchange

The Diffie-Hellman algorithm was a stunning breakthrough in cryptography that showed cryptographic keys could be securely exchanged in plain sight. Here’s how it works.

Airtable review: Flexible low-code/no-code in the cloud

Airtable is a powerful combination of relational database capabilities, a variety of development environments for different skill levels, and hundreds of templates and add-ins for common use cases.

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