Microsoft is planning to make Windows 10 PCs work without passwords. While the company has been working on removing passwords from Windows 10 and its Microsoft Accounts for a number of months now, the next major update to Windows 10 next year will go one step further.
Some key areas of focus uncovered by this investigation were:
Being mindful of memory allocations to minimize GC pause times
Keeping long-running calls non-blocking/asynchronous
Minimizing calls to external resources (such as other web services or the database) with caching and grouping of requests
Keep Business Logic out of the Database, Period.
Unhandled exceptions are a bit of a misnomer. In .NET, every exception is handled. By the time you access the specifics of an error in your Try-Catch block, the Framework has already analyzed the problem, built a structure to contain its details, examined the stack trace, and used reflection to pinpoint the location of the error, among other mundane tasks. In short, when errors occur, .NET serves them up to your code in a neatly packaged, highly examinable data block.
Point to note that, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 would be the last/final release of Visual Studio 2017, as it has been designated as "Service Pack". Microsoft won't be releasing any further updates to it.
C# is rapidly approaching its third decade of life. Originally released in 2000, the language has grown and changed across 7 major versions. Once a knock off of Java in all but name has jumped out ahead on many aspects.
In the recent interview with Scott Hanselman, Roberta Arcoverde, Head of Engineering at Stack Overflow, revealed the story about the architecture of Stack Overflow. They handle more than 6000 requests per second, 2 billion page views per month, and they manage to render a page in about 12 milliseconds. We imagine they use a microservice solution running in the Cloud with Kubernetes.
While few data points about Microsoft engineers working in India were available, the crowdsourced data revealed they are paid far less than their Washingtonian counterparts. The typical Indian coder who filled out the spreadsheet makes less than $50,000 per year, while Americans with similar experience make $150,000 per year with up to 10 times as much
compensation in bonuses
Adobe has released Patch Tuesday updates for the month of May with fixes for multiple vulnerabilities spanning 12 different products, including a zero-day flaw affecting Adobe Reader that's actively exploited in the wild.
