Microsoft .NET 7 Preview 4 brings Regex improvements, cache metrics
Microsoft’s latest preview of .NET 7, the forthcoming next version of its software development platform, features enhancements for working with regular expressions and caching.Downloadable from the Microsoft .NET website, the [...]
Cloudflare to take on AWS, Azure, Google with D1 distributed database
Building on top of its recently launched serverless application platform Workers and the R2 object storage service, Cloudflare is releasing a new serverless database, dubbed D1, to take on databases [...]
How to build changeable cloud solutions
One of the things I learned early on is to design systems that allow for easy ongoing change. How? Cloud or non-cloud system, you build for change by compartmentalizing system [...]
What is JDBC? Introduction to Java Database Connectivity
JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) is the Java API that manages connecting to a database, issuing queries and commands, and handling result sets obtained from the database. Released as part of [...]
Jetpack Compose 1.2 packs text improvements
Jetpack Compose 1.2, Google’s toolkit for building native Android UIs, is now available as a beta release. Highlights of the update include text improvements such as font padding and downloadable [...]
9 questions you should ask about your cloud security
In order for cybersecurity professionals to gain the knowledge they need to thwart the hackers constantly targeting their cloud infrastructure and applications, they need to think like General George S. [...]
How to compress and decompress strings in C#
When developing applications you will often need to deal with strings. And because string objects are costly in terms of performance, you will often want to compress your string content, [...]
Google Flutter 3 backs macOS, Linux
Google has launched Flutter 3, a major release of the cross-platform development toolkit that adds stable support for building macOS and Linux desktop apps. Flutter already provided stable support for [...]
Google Firebase expands Extensions to become more customizable
Google is extending its Firebase software development platform by opening up its pre-built code Extensions, allowing developers to plug directly into the runtime and extend the functionality according to their [...]