Stuff Lucca says about tech - November 2k21

Hey folks, here’s what made the day month in Lucca’s tech watch this November.

Architecture

• API Tokens: A tedious survey : an overview of different authentication tokens (jwt & co)
• DDD in a nutshell : a video about the main principles of DDD and why DDD is important in business applications (Vladimir Khorikov)
• New QUERY HTTP verb specification : think of it as a GET with a body
• You probably know SOLID principles. SOLID focuses on internal software architecture. Here is IDEALS. Microservice oriented, with a focus on external software architecture.
  • Interface segregation,
  • Deployability (is on you),
  • Event-driven,
  • Availability over consistency,
  • Loose-coupling,
  • and Single responsibility.

C# 10 / .NET 6 / EF Core 6

• Libuv is now removed from AspNetCore.
  • you can also find and an obituary note about it
• Example of using .NET 6 minimal APIs : used here to send OpenTelemetry trace data to honeycomb
• .NET 6 example of simpler code : using generic maths, improved string interpolation, all while being 2x faster
• How to migrate from .NET core 3.1 to 6.0

Front & Angular

• Angular 13 is out
• (FR) An overview of new things in Angular 13

Dotnet ecosystem

• Hot reload for .NET 6 is coming to Rider
• Quick tip if your .NET SDKs suddenly disappear
• Another quick tip about dotnet-format
• Thread about making life easier for newcomers to the .NET ecosystem
• MinimalApis.LiquidView : provides some extensions to ASP.NET Minimal APIs that allow to return templated view results using the Liquid language.
• “Show in Test Explorer” feature in VS 2022
• Jetbrains brings us a new IDE named Fleet. C# support is planned for 2022

Cloud and containers

• Azure active directory moves to .NET 6 : many efficiency gains and improvements
• A Kubernetes engineer’s guide to mTLS
• Introducing GKE image streaming for fast application startup and autoscaling
• Distributing Supply chain artifacts with Cloud Native
• Using DockerSlim : nice reduction on docker images size

Accessibility

• 33 Accessibility Statistics You Need to Know
• Forza Horizon 5 will add on-screen sign language interpreters
• (FR) Adapter les outils de travail pour les personnes en situation de handicap
• Assistiv Labs : a handy tool to test how your websites or apps work with assistive tech

Miscellanous

• Converting gifs to xlsx files : because, why not ?
• Quick tip : CTRL+SHIFT to run app as an administrator : You can run apps as administrator if you press CTRL+SHIFT before clicking their app icons in the taskbar
• Microsoft brings javascript to excel : Finally! No more macro viruses! Oh, wait…
• Every company is a metaverse company now.
• Useful APIs on BeOS
• How to exit Vim : because it may happen to you.
• Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved 127/8 : a good example of a bad idea
• Thread about a bug in Python’s RNG
• MapScii : using OpenStreetMap in terminal
• (FR) Remplacer un faux plancher dans une salle serveurs
• Git tip about –intent-to-add
• A useless box on AWS using lambdas
• Installing windows and linux on the same partition : if you want your daily dose of nightmare fuel
• Alternative BigO notations : definitely better
• Bots war on github
• Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time
• C++23 will add support for floating point Roman numbers, e.g. III.XIV
• (FR) Le paradoxe de la veille