Walk through the OWASP top ten while we have fun with the WebGoat application. Then analyze how each applies to the startup product my team is working on and add some more depth.

We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework Core 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux! .NET Core is a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern web apps, microservices, libraries and console applications.

The Scala ecosystem has been a topic of debates for years. Is it good or bad? Is it too small or too complicated? I think that the problem here stems from the fact that Scala as a programming language appeals to different categories of developers. Moreover, there is a common belief that Scala can be used either as "a better Java" or as "a Haskell for the JVM". In my opinion, this statement holds some truth, but it is a dangerous simplification which may lead to wrong conclusions.

We’ve already discussed things related to sockets; now let’s discuss the stuff which is often needed (in particular, it is of Utmost Importance when implementing Reactors), but which is not that common to be universally available as a part of operating system. I’m speaking about queues. And not only just about “some" queue, but about queues which have certain properties desirable for our Reactors a.k.a. ad-hoc Finite State Machines a.k.a. Event-Driven Programs.

Most developers take automatic garbage collection for granted. It’s just another amazing feature provided by our language run-times to make our jobs easier