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Blockchain technology is already central to major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its applications are ever growing. A blockchain is simply a list of records, called blocks. Each block contains information about transactions - and also confirms the validity of the previous block with something called a hash function. A hash…
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If you've worked with React at all, chances are you've at least heard of Redux. But you may not know what it is, how it fits in with React, or how to use it in your app. It can sometimes be complicated to set up but can be a very…
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Docker is a very popular system for containerizing applications. Containerization packages the executable code along with the runtime environment in deployable virtual images using a repeatable, automatable process.
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Microservices have become a popular and effective design for scaling development teams in large companies. A microservices architecture enables you to build and deploy services independently, providing developers autonomy, enthusiasm, and a passion for their work. These benefits are realized because they feel a sense of control over their own…
Read more about How to Win at UI Development in the World of Microservices
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Nearly all applications rely on authentication. Developers, and the companies that employ them, want to confirm who is making the request and are they who they say they are. And, this needs to happen fast enough for a good user experience. Fortunately, there are great tools to help.
Read more about Easy Spring Boot Deployment with AWS Elastic Beanstalk
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Visual Studio has not always been as user-friendly on the Mac as it is on a Windows machine. Lately, however, the stable release of VS for Mac is really starting to feel like a simple, but luxurious cousin to Visual Studio 2019. Different, but related. Installation on a Mac is…
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In this article, we'll be building an MVC task management form with .NET Core 2.2. We'll also be showing how to integrate with a MySQL database from MVC, and how to use Twilio to send SMS messages to your app that will add new tasks to your list.
Read more about Build a Simple CRUD App with ASP.NET Core, MySQL, and Twilio3 min read
In the famous 1993 cartoon from the New Yorker, one canine sits at a PC, looking at another, and says, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." More than a quarter of a century later, digital certificates have made us more certain who we're talking to online, but there…
Read more about Secure Applications with Certificate Pinning
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Apple's recent announcement of a single sign-on (SSO) solution, Sign in with Apple, has developers everywhere thinking about how to incorporate it into their application's infrastructure. Apple is hardly the first organization to introduce SSO—it's a security-focused methodology that has been available for years—and one of the protocols behind it…
Read more about SAML: What's Behind SSO
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Picture yourself a year from now. Someone just put your entire password database on Pastebin. User accounts are being hacked by the thousands and your local privacy regulator just called to have a chat. Depending on the hashing algorithm you were using to store your user passwords, you could be…
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"It works on my machine."
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Encrypting data is all about making sure that only the right people can view the data you've encrypted. There are two primary forms of data encryption: symmetric and asymmetric.
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