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WebAssembly, JavaScript links get faster in Firefox

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7 cloud services to ease machine learning

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How Azure became the place for open source in the cloud

Microsoft has truly embraced open source, in a radical shift rare for a big company—and developers should be very happy

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How to use the DbContext in Entity Framework Core

Take advantage of the DbContext in Entity Framework Core to connect to a database and perform CRUD operations using CLR objects

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Do more with R: drag-and-drop ggplot

A new R package creates a simple graphical user interface for ggplot2—and it generates R code for the visualization you create

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What’s new in Angular: Version 7 release candidate arrives

The popular JavaScript framework for desktop and mobile apps produces better code and better supports Google’s Material Design

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R tip: Drag-and-drop ggplot

See how the new graphical user interface for ggplot2 works, thanks to the esquisse R package

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Puppet builds project and vulnerability assessment tools for devops

The beta tools are designed to help assess devops results and automate security remediations

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How to build resilient microservices

Resilient microservices require resilient interservice communications. These patterns and Ballerina can help

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Why you should use Docker and containers

Learn how lightweight, portable, self-contained Docker containers improve software development, application deployment, and business agility

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Microsoft open-sources Infer.Net machine learning

The technology will become part of the ML.Net framework for statistical modeling and online learning

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Microsoft smartens up the ML.Net machine learning API

Microsoft’s TensorFlow-compatible machine learning framework debuts a reworked API for more flexible pipelines and improved prediction performance

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Topped out? Swift, Go, and R vie for Tiobe Top 10

All three languages face limitations that could cap developer enthusiasm for the long term

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Serverless cloud computing: Don’t go overboard

The new cry from the big public cloud providers is ‘serverless computing for everything.’ Don’t be fooled

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Azure Cosmos DB gets the multiple-master boost for distributed apps

Microsoft’s cloud database platform is updated to improve distributed systems performance at a global scale

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JDK 12 roadmap: The new features coming to Java 12

Switch expressions capability would improve coding, allow pattern matching; raw string literals would simplify multiline expressions

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What’s new in Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Microsoft regularly updates Visual Studio Code. Keep track of the updates’ key capabilities in this changelog

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SQL tutorial: Learn SQL on PostgreSQL

Follow this step-by-step guide to install PostgreSQL, load data, connect to a database, and execute SQL queries including table joins

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How to use configuration providers in ASP.Net Core

Take advantage of configuration providers and dependency injection to configure your ASP.Net Core applications in a loosely coupled manner

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6 under-the-radar JavaScript tools you should know

Cloud provisioning, the internet of things (IoT), payments, and Node.js programming are just some of the use cases for these open source tools

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