GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid slavery references

Source:-zdnet.com GitHub getting on board legitimizes movement aimed at removing racially-charged language from software. GitHub is working on replacing the term “master” on its service with a neutral term like “main” to avoid any unnecessary references to slavery, its CEO said on Friday. The code-hosting portal is just the latest in a long line of tech companies and open source projects that have expressed support for removing terms that may be offensive to developers in the black community. This includes

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Kubernetes Container Management Is Not Application Management

Source:-containerjournal.com Application performance management is different than container management in myriad ways. Don’t confuse the two. It’s scary how quickly widespread adoption was achieved for container technology in the world’s mission-critical business applications. Consider that it took about 10 years after the introduction of Java for the programming language to become a near-ubiquitous standard (followed shortly by C#/.Net). In stark contrast, enterprise-ready Docker just turned 5 years old, and it’s been pretty much everywhere for a while. Why so relatively

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DevOps in 2019: A Deeper Commitment to Github, Java and .Net

Source:-tprotoday.com Everything old was new again as developer mainstays Java and .Net got milestone upgrades and continued to engage with wholly Microsoft-owned Github. While change is constant, in the world of DevOps and software development, there are a lot of important things that remain the same. A decade ago, in 2009, Java and .NET dominated the development landscape. As we look back at software development and DevOps in 2019, it’s striking to note that both Java and .NET remain widely

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AWS Cloud Adds .NET Core Support to Coding Tools

Source – adtmag.com Two development tools for the Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) cloud — AWS CodeStar and AWS CodeBuild — now support .NET Core. The cloud giant yesterday announced the upgrade to the two services used for developing, building and deploying AWS applications, noting that developers had inquired about such support for .NET Core, a lightweight, open source, modular platform used to create Web applications and services for Windows, Linux and Mac OSes. CodeStar, introduced in April, is designed to integrate with existing IDEs and abstract some

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10 Reasons To Use Docker With .NET

Source:- stackify.com When you think of Docker, you probably don’t think of .NET or Windows. There are a lot of good reasons to use Docker with .NET. Check out our top 10 list of reasons to use Docker with .NET to see if Docker can help you! 1. Pre-Made Runtime Environment Generally, when you set up a server machine (or virtual machine), you have to install the operating system, any software needed by the application (web server, SDK, et. al.)

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