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Modern application development depends on automated testing, using test frameworks to ensure that code is ready to go into application packages and out to end-users. To get the most from testing, tests are written before code and can be…
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GitHub is officially launching a new code-scanning tool today, designed to help developers identify vulnerabilities in their code before it’s deployed to the public. The new feature is the result of an acquisition last year when GitHub…
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App Engine is a fully managed serverless compute service from Google Cloud Platform that makes managing a backend of microservices a lot simpler. It’s built around high scalability without having to manage your own servers. What Is App…
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ASP.NET is a platform for building web APIs with C# and .NET. It’s commonly used for app backends, and can automatically serialize classes to JSON. We’ll walk through setting up a service that talks to a database and stores a list of…
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Nginx and Apache combined serve over 50% of the web. But Apache has seen a decline in recent years, in favor of Nginx. Is Nginx really better, and are there any benefits to using Apache? Nginx Is Newer and Faster Nginx is much more…
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In this article, we will learn how to write automated tests on web APIs with Postman. In order to follow along to this tutorial, you’ll need at least a fair amount of familiarity with Postman. One of my favorite features in Postman is the…
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UFW, short for “uncomplicated firewall,” is a frontend for the more complex iptables utility. It’s designed to make managing a firewall as simple as setting ports to be open and closed, and regulating what traffic is allowed to go through.…
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Microsoft’s planned .NET 5 software development platform produces safe warnings for the C# compiler and automatically finds latent bugs. With .NET 5, a new capability called AnalysisLevel introduces warnings in a way that alerts developers…
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When you install Linux, the setup process will likely add a swap partition to the hard disk along with the partitions for Linux itself. But what is this swap partition used for and is it really necessary? What Is Swap? When a multitasking…
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If your web-server runs on Apache, you should immediately install the latest available version of the server application to prevent hackers from taking unauthorized control over it. Apache recently fixed multiple vulnerabilities in its web…
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