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Articles
- 5 Programming Languages That Are Probably Doomed
I'm skeptical that Ruby is doomed, its immense popularity throughout the "Web 2.0" years will ensure that important sites are powered by it for years. But the trends for these languages are interesting to see.
- Practical Ways to Write Better JavaScript
Short answer: use TypeScript.
- Ruby on Rails on Windows is not just possible, it's fabulous
Ruby's support for Windows has been growing, albeit slowly. But what if you could run Ruby on a Windows machine without actually running Ruby on Windows? As it so often does, Windows Subsystem for Linux comes to the rescue.
- Separate Your Monitoring
Do you put your monitoring systems in the same place that you put your production systems? If so, can you really rely on your monitoring systems to be resilient to something that takes your production servers offline?
- ASP.NET Core 3.0 Exception Handling
Exceptions happen. The expected ones you can wrap in atry/catchblock. But what about the unexpected ones - how do you handle them? A look at top-level exception-handling and dealing with unexpected errors in ASP.NET Core 3.
In Brief
- JavaScript: What’s new in ES2019 JavaScript
- Learning from the Accelerate "Four Key Metrics" DevOps
- What’s new in the GitHub and Slack integration ChatOps
- AppVeyor Server for Mac CI
- Goodbye MSDN Magazine...You Meant So Much To Me Magazines
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- Announcing HashiCorp Vault 1.2 Secrets
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