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Top 10 Blog Posts from NGINX

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Top 10 Blog Posts from NGINX The past year has been a big one for us here at NGINX, Inc. Our open source product, NGINX, recently became the web server of choice at the majority of the 100,000 busiest websites in the world. For the first time, we were included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers. And NGINX Plus took a big step up in its ability to secure your sites and apps with the introduction of the ModSecurity web application firewall (WAF). Our customers, and potential customers, keep up on all of these developments through the NGINX blog. Our top all‑time blog posts show our customers’ interest in three main topics: New releases of NGINX Plus Microservices Performance All three topics show the strength of NGINX software – both the open source NGINX software, which was first released 12 years [ more… ]

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Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 15003 Released

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Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 15003 Released Today, we released a new Windows 10 Creators Update SDK Preview to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 15003 or greater). The Preview SDK is a pre-release and cannot be used in a production environment. Please only install the SDK on your test machine. The Preview SDK Build 15003 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. If you are working on an application that you need to submit to the store, you should not install the preview. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from developer section on Windows Insider. For feedback and updates to the known issues, please see the developer forum.  For new feature requests, head over to our Windows Platform UserVoice. Things to Note: The SDK will require Visual Studio 2017 Preview. You can download the Visual Studio [ more… ]

New Bluetooth features in Windows 10 Creators Update (a.k.a. GATT Server and friends)

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New Bluetooth features in Windows 10 Creators Update (a.k.a. GATT Server and friends) This release is big on Bluetooth. If you’re familiar with Windows Bluetooth APIs, have been meaning to try them out, or if you’re just starting to dabble in IoT and wearables, this is a great time to take a fresh look at all things Bluetooth. To ensure the APIs we built out are functional and performant, we are working directly with Fitbit, Garmin and other device manufacturers and we would love your feedback as well. There are three main features in this month’s Insider preview: GATT Server Bluetooth LE Peripheral Unpaired Bluetooth LE device connectivity A lot of the improvements are focused on Bluetooth LE, but we have improved Bluetooth audio functionality as well. While we made a lot of changes under the hood to ensure that [ more… ]

Why gaming benchmarker Josh Heslop loves Surface

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Why gaming benchmarker Josh Heslop loves Surface When I first spoke to Josh Heslop, he painted a picture of the night of Surface Pro 4’s release: he was the first customer in line at the Microsoft Store at Baybrook Mall in Friendswood, TX, eager to get his hands on the new device and see what kind of gaming muscle lay underneath the magnesium case. And it didn’t take him long to find out – after collecting his Surface Pro 4 and swag bag, he headed home and posted his first Surface benchmarking video showing DOTA 2 running smoothly on the same day the device was released. Since then, Josh has fallen in love with Surface and with the Surface gaming community. After uploading a few more benchmarking videos to his YouTube channel, Josh decided to take his involvement to the [ more… ]

ChakraCore’s first anniversary

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ChakraCore’s first anniversary Today marks the one year anniversary of open-sourcing ChakraCore – the core of the Chakra JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge – under the MIT license. We wanted to take a moment to say thank you to everyone in the community who has contributed, helped and partnered with us! Your contributions and feedback help us improve and create a better product for the community. During this period, we’ve had over 70 contributors, both internal and external, directly contribute to the ChakraCore codebase and several other members of the JavaScript community engaged with us, both in individual capacity and as organizations. New products and services such as TypeScript, Open Translators to Things, and HoloJS are now using ChakraCore. And it’s been great to see work outside of the core engine proving valuable to the community with things like ChakraCore’s [ more… ]