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Over the past decade, and even more swiftly since the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation of the workplace has primarily been driven by applications. Apps have become an integral part of everyday life for many organizations.
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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to deploy a JHipster-based reactive microservice to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). You'll use Azure's Cosmos DB as a persistent store for one of the services. For security, you'll use Okta as an OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider. You'll also securely encrypt all…
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As the internet has grown, so has the need to protect users from privacy invasions, fraud, or other types of abuse by attackers. The European Union's solution is the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. First put into effect in 2018, the policy applies not only to the organizations in…
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Elasticsearch is one of the most powerful and popular search engines on the market. Elasticsearch lets you search through vast amounts of data, whether you're implementing real-time search experiences or doing in-depth data analysis.
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The Web Authentication (WebAuthn) specification, given official approval by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the FIDO Alliance in 2019, aims to strengthen online security by allowing users to sign in to sites with elements like biometrics and FIDO security keys. The WebAuthn API can replace or supplement less-secure…
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Getting something to work is one of the greatest feelings you can have as a developer. Especially when you've spent hours, days, or months trying to make it happen. The last mile can be one of the most painful and rewarding experiences, all wrapped into the same day or two.
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.NET 6 is here and many of us are making preparations to update .NET 5 codebases to .NET 6. As part of this review, today you will learn how to implement the client credentials flow in ASP.NET Core Web API.
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Whether you're coding, using a search engine, searching and replacing text in a text editor, or using the command-line utilities grep, sed, and awk in Linux, you're using regular expressions (also known as "regex" or "regexp"). Yes, they're everywhere.
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DevOps is one of those buzzwords. Ask three DevOps professionals what it means, and you might get four different answers. Most will agree that DevOps usually describes a mix of tools and techniques combining aspects of systems administration, software development, IT, release engineering, security, and often QA. At its best,…
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Microsoft's Azure platform has as many high-tech products as anyone could ever want, including the Azure Static Web Apps service. As the name suggests, the platform hosts static web apps that don't require a back end. Azure supports React, Angular, Vue, Gatsby, and many more, out of the box.
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Anyone who has tried to type a password using a television remote can tell you what a pain it is. Not only will you be frustrated with the keyboard, but it's not secure; everyone else in the room can see what you are typing. Fortunately, the OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization…
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Java 18 was released last month (March 2022), and with it comes the second incubator of the Foreign Function & Memory API, so let us look at the state of Foreign Function Interface (FFI) in Java.
Read more about Does Java 18 finally have a better alternative to JNI?
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