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In this blog post, Anirudh is going to show the new package validation tooling that will become available with .NET 6. It ensures that your package consumers have a great experience across all .NET platforms and versions and that you didn’t accidentally make any breaking changes with the previous version of your package.

A Java geek – by Nicolas Fränkel

Gone are the times when developers’ jobs ended with the release of the application. Nowadays, developers care more and more about the operational side of IT: perhaps they operate applications themselves, but more probably, their organization fosters increased collaboration between Dev and Ops.

Azul – by Simon Ritter

Not all releases are created equal and, depending on how feature development phases align; some will have more features than others. JDK 16 contains quite a few new things, although several of them are continuations or finalization of incubator modules or preview features from earlier releases.

Forbes – by Aater Suleman

In IT, we are all too familiar with the 80/20 rule where 80% of efforts are spent keeping the lights on and 20% is spent on innovation. Within this 80/20 balance, an AltexSoft white paper reports that enterprises spend 80% of their IT budget managing and maintaining legacy systems. With increasing pressure from the business to drive product and service innovation, it’s little wonder that enterprises are on the lookout for ways to approach legacy application modernization.

Businesses in the financial technology industry are increasingly turning to outsourced solutions for their software development. Here’s how it can help this booming market.

The Internet of Things, or “IoT” for short, is about extending the power of the internet beyond computers and smartphones to a whole range of other things, processes, and environments. Here’s everything you need to know.

InfoQ – by David Pereira

This is a simple approach for Onion Architecture that has saved David a lot of time engaging productivity for everyone on his team. The article includes CQRS and Event Sourcing. You can use it as you want, you can create a GitHub repository using the template from there or just doing a fork/clone and creating the template from the dotnet CLI.

Warren Lynch – by Warren Lynch

When it comes to agile estimation, you can’t help but mention its basic principles: use relative estimation units (such as story points), promote detailed discussion of the content of user stories, form a consensus and commitment to the solution, and enhance the team through cohesive collaboration.

LogRocket – by Ejiro Asiuwhu

Blazor is a new Microsoft UI framework that uses a unique approach for leveraging C# .NET and the WebAssembly framework to create SPAs running in web browsers. It essentially allows a developer to build rich and interactive client-side applications with HTML, CSS, and C#. On the other hand, we have React: a declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces and UI components. What happens when a developer is interested in building for the SPAs but doesn’t want to deal with…

jaxenter – by Rich Sharples

What should you take into consideration when modernizing legacy applications? Is it always practical to toss out the old and roll in the new? Digital transformation sometimes involves getting rid of the old to make way for the new, but, more often than not, digital transformation is about modernizing legacy applications.

For the past ten years, digital transformation moved at a relatively slow pace, focusing mainly on improving products, processes, and the employee experience. Then COVID-19 hit, forcing IT decision-makers to prioritize their IT initiatives and increase digital investments.

When you hear or get notification that your software is nearing End of Life (EOL), it’s a bit disconcerting. It sounds so final, as though your software is just going to stop working on a certain date at a certain time. Rest easy, as this is not the case. The term is just very dramatic. We’ll go into what it really means later in the article.