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How to work with ConcurrentBag and ConcurrentDictionary in .Net

The ConcurrentDictionary and ConcurrentBag classes provide lock-free, thread-safe implementations to work with collections in .Net

Linux: Does price matter more than freedom?

Also in today’s open source roundup: The best office apps for Android, and 5 awesome Android tips and tricks

Office 365 could give Microsoft Teams an advantage over Slack

A new survey finds that Microsoft Teams is off to a strong start, but there’s a lot of confusion as well as competition in the business communications market — and team chat is only the latest trend

APIs, microservices and the changing role of IT in 2017

From the changing role of IT to chatbots, learn more about five technology trends that will impact businesses in 2017.

Untangle OneDrive and SharePoint integration in Office 365

Microsoft has added SharePoint support to its OneDrive apps, but differences across Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android might confuse you

Managing compliance is easier in the cloud

Rules and standards change, requiring constant IT effort to maintain compliance. Why not let the cloud take on that hassle instead?

Implementing the Observer design pattern in C#

The observer design pattern defines one-to-many relationship between objects so that changes to one object can be notified to the other dependent objects

Linux: The 10 best privacy and security distributions

Also in today’s open source roundup: elementary OS as an alternative to macOS, and DistroWatch reviews Subgraph OS 2016.12.30 Alpha

Hadoop vendors make a jumble of security

That's both good and bad news, as big data security management is tough with the current lack of standardization

An ill wind blows through Silicon Valley

Trump's executive order on immigration, if it stands, will mark the beginning of the end of U.S. technology leadership

Savings are only the start of the cloud’s value

Businesses move to the public cloud to save money, but there are big strategic values to exploit once you get there

My two cents on unit testing asynchronous code

Understand how asynchrony works in .Net and adhere to the recommended practices when writing unit tests to test asynchronous code

What the end of net neutrality means for you

Trump's cable-loving crony at the helm of the FCC spells doom for the idea that all internet traffic should be treated equally

Getting off the data treadmill

Companies too often think that getting value from data is all about the latest buzzwords: big data, machine learning, real-time. Turns out it's much simpler than that

Wine 2.0 released: Run Windows apps in Linux

Also in today’s open source roundup: Android users can download Netflix content to SD cards, and Pokemon Duel game available for Android

Servers and scars: The perils of shortcuts

Haste makes waste, as one techie observes on both a professional and a personal level

Does Asus Tinker Board hold any chance against Raspberry Pi?

It's a more powerful board, but it's not specs that turned Raspberry Pi into a revolution, it's something else

Firefox 51 released

Also in today’s open source roundup: Get started with a VPN in Linux, and Google Voice updated

Almost there: Skype for Business inches forward

A convoluted user interface and crippled mobile features limit the conferencing tools' utility, but there's now enough to get started

Oracle’s new cloud push won’t be easy

The challenge: AWS, Google, Microsoft, and IBM own the market, enterprises want to drop Oracle databases, and Oracle's short on innovations

Back to the future of application development

What will computing look like in the next 10 years, and what does the future hold for app developers? These trends are driving major transformation to the role

Linux: Is Xfce better than Windows 10?

Also in today’s open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews GoboLinux 016, and Foss Force lets you vote for your favorite Linux distro

The cloud updraft grows stronger

In 2017, we're past the point of just dev and test and DR in the cloud. Before embarking on any new project, consider the cloud first

Fake news alert! Internet breaches are not cloud breaches

Ignorant reporting conflates the internet with the cloud; as a result, people lose trust in what is actually a very secure platform

Who’s cashing in on containers? Look to the cloud

Thanks to Docker, container adoption has been huge. The benefits to developers have been, too. But the revenue isn't going where you might expect

4 considerations for Machine Learning System in Production

When Your Network Fails to Converge

Sprinting when necessary

We always seem to be under pressure to just code faster. But how sustainable is that? And how can we handle those cases when we need to push harder?

Decouple abstraction from its implementation using bridge design pattern

The bridge design pattern can be used to decouple an abstraction from its implementation so that both can be changed independent of each other

Tap the power of graph databases with IBM Graph

A graph database can help you discover connections in your data you never imagined; here’s how to get started

Alexa revisited: Reflections on living with Amazon’s assistant

Few months living with Amazon's chat bot

Let’s make IoT great, for the first time, with Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3

The new compute module comes with a 64-bit processor and 1GB of RAM, with the flexibility of on-board storage

Why every company needs to modernize its software factory

Linux: Why do people hate systemd?

Also in today’s open source roundup: Why you should switch to private, encrypted messaging, and what is your favorite Linux distribution?

Cool-headed techie defuses hot-tempered users

The first rule of help desk: Chill out when the heated support calls come in. The solutions will roll in soon after

Microsoft Office 365 tackles management with StaffHub

Microsoft is building new analytics tools to help companies better manage small and virtual teams

Mobile is still the safest place for your data

IT likes to fret about smartphones and tablets, but more established technologies—even paper documents—are where the data-breach risks lie

The 3 hottest cloud jobs for 2017

These cloud jobs are in highest demand, pay the most, and provide great job security

Will open data survive Trump?

The US federal government collects vast quantities of data on hundreds of topics and makes it publicly available. Those efforts now face an existential threat

API adoption: Traditional industries lag

Businesses need to adopt APIs to connect systems and be more customer-facing, but the energy, logistics, packaging and banking sectors have a lot of catching up to do

Too late, PaaS, you missed your shot in the cloud

As PaaS providers split into narrow slices, IaaS clouds have absorbed the critical capabilities that PaaS originally promised

Are women better at code documentation than men?

Most male software developers have no problem with writing codes to debug and update, and creating cool toys, but they have a hard time maintaining proper documentation

The 6 unwritten rules of open source development

Do you want to be a successful and valued member of an open source project? Follow these unwritten rules

12 New Year’s resolutions for your data

Your data is a mess. Stop procrastinating and put your best intentions to work with this handy priority list

Why a MacOS user switched to Ubuntu Linux

Also in today’s open source roundup: Ultimate Edition 5.0 Gamers distro released, and Android versus iOS for business

Why do you use Linux?

Also in today’s open source roundup: The 5 best Android features you should be using, and Android malware disguised as Super Mario Run

Android won’t fix the Chromebook conundrum

High-quality Chrome OS laptops are coming to run Android apps, but there's no real reason to choose them over today's laptops or tablets

3 reasons why 2017 will see massive cloud migration

Enterprises have spent two years putting the pieces in place to move applications to PaaS and IaaS; they're now ready to go full speed ahead

Rising from the coding ranks to become a CTO

Being a CTO means you understand how to use technology to help your company build a product

How Linux scared Microsoft into improving Windows gaming

Also in today’s open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews MX Linux 16, and Mac market share drops while Linux improves