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The great cloud computing surge

Driven in part by the pandemic, cloud computing adoption has reached new heights. These five articles take a close look at the implications.

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From legacy to the cloud: The 3 stages of enterprise modernization

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many organizations to confront their legacy technology burden sooner than expected. However, getting old systems to the cloud doesn’t happen overnight.

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Excel, Python, and the future of data science

If the ubiquitous spreadsheet program is the gateway to data science, Python aims to be the next step.

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Microsoft equips Visual Studio Code with extension for Project Tye microservices

The experimental tool helps with viewing, running, and debugging apps from within the editor.

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The value of time series data and TSDBs

Time series data key insights in domains ranging from science and medicine to systems monitoring and industrial IoT. Understand time series data and the databases designed to ingest, store, and analyze time series data.

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Take advantage of aspect-oriented programming using PostSharp to validate method parameters in C#.

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Apple Xcode 13 supports teams, Swift concurrency

Latest version of Apple’s IDE backs Xcode Cloud CI/CD, team development features, and Swift concurrent programming using async/await and actors.

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