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Serverless is the next iteration in cloud management. First, we let go of having physical hardware servers and moved all of our servers into the cloud because, hey, why bother managing all that hardware? This created cloud infrastructure providers that resulted in behemoths like Amazon and Google. Now, they're saying,…
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Recently, a colleague pointed out that I was still configuring Travis-CI on new GitHub repos and suggested I used GitHub Actions instead. I had given Actions the ol' five-minute test when it was still in beta, but ran into a few problems and gave up. After all, I've been a…
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Vue lets you create complex and high-performance web applications. As a front-end JavaScript framework, it's becoming more popular than ever. Vue Router is the official router for Vue. It facilitates routing in single-page applications, and provides a way to process user authentications and restrict page access. Combined with Okta, implementing…
Read more about Vue Login and Access Control the Easy Way
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I've always thought developers are a pretty rare collection of individuals. We all vary in our composition; from the quiet introverts to the boisterous extroverts, from button-downed professionals to aloof loose cannons -- we run the full spectrum of human personalities. However, we are unique in that we share a…
Read more about Whiteboarding for Developers: Yes, You Have To
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Apache Shiro is a Java security framework that can perform authentication, authorization, session management, along with a host of other features for building secure applications.
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Read more about Grep for System Admins: Using Grep to Automate Daily Tasks
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Let's face it. Higher-Order Components (HOCs) allow developers to really take advantage and extend the functionality of their React components, but they can be cumbersome once you have more than one that you want to use within a component. It's mostly because of the way they're used. Not only do…
Read more about How to Move from Consuming Higher-Order Components to React Hooks
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We live in a world that moves fast. Compared to the mid 90s through early 2000s, we have incredibly intelligent technology. Effectively, we have super-computers in our pockets. Our actual, modern supercomputers would have seemed like works of fiction just two decades ago. Not only is our ability to compute…
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Mobile development offers a lot of options. To develop native apps, you can use Java or Kotlin on Android. On iOS, you can use Objective C or Swift. There are other options, too. You can build hybrid mobile apps and Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). Hybrid mobile apps are those created…
Read more about Mobile Development with Ionic, React Native, and JHipster
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Many Okta customers who leverage Advanced Server Access to secure and automate identity across their dynamic infrastructure fleets use HashiCorp Terraform to declare and provision resources across AWS, GCP, and Azure. One customer built their own Terraform Provider as a wrapper to the Advanced Server Access API, which we recently…
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Serverless architecture with AWS Lambdas is quickly becoming a popular option for companies looking to deploy applications without the overhead of maintaining servers. AWS Lambda functions are event-driven and serverless—triggered to process a piece of code and return a result. AWS Lambdas can be written in most common languages today…
Read more about How to Build a Secure AWS Lambda API with Node.js and React
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With mobile apps becoming ever-present in users' lives, following best security practices has become essential in protecting your users and your apps. Implementing security alone and from the ground up can be costly for your development team, create a less-than-ideal user experience, and be susceptible to design/implementation errors. The easiest…
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