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Windward, a predictive intelligence company for the maritime industry, recently announced the launch of its API Insights Lab including access to four API bundles at launch. Each bundle of APIs is based on real-life situations and is meant to cater to specific sectors and workflows. The bundles include Due Diligence and Compliance, Ocean Freight Visibility (OFV), Homeland Security, and Behavioral Analysis, and allow customers and partners to integrate Windward's Maritime AI to build their own workflows.

I'm very much enjoying David Fowler's tweets, and since he doesn't have a blog, I will continue to share and expand on his wisdom so that it might reach a larger audience. He points out that ".NET has 4 built-in dictionary/map types [and] there's no guidance on when to use what, mostly individual documentation on each implementation." Hashtable Dictionary ConcurrentDictionary ImmutableDictionary There is actually some good documentation on C# Collections and Data Structures here that we can compare and combine with David's good advice as well! There are two main types of collections; generic collections and non-generic collections. Generic collections are type-safe at compile time. Because of this, generic collections typically offer better performance. Definitely important to remember. Generics have been around since .NET Framework 2.0 around 15 years ago so this is a good reason to consider avoiding Hashtable and using Dictionary<> instead. Hashtable is weakly typed and while it allows you to have keys that map to different kinds of objects which may seem attractive at first, you'll need to "box" the objects up and boxing and unboxing is expensive. You'll almost always want to use Dictionary instead. If you're accessing your collection across threads, consider the System.Collections.Concurrent namespace or using System.Collections.Immutable which is thread-safe because you'll always be working on a copy as the original collection is immutable (not modifiable). David says this about ConcurrentDictionary - "Good read speed even in the face of concurrency, but it's a heavyweight object to create and slower to update." Or perhaps Dictionary with lock - "Poor read speed, lightweight to create and medium update speed." Dictionary as immutable object - "best read speed and lightweight to create but heavy update. Copy and modify on mutation e.g. new Dictionary(old).Add(key, value)" Hashtable - "Good read speed (no lock required), same-ish weight as dictionary but more expensive to mutate and no generics!" ImmutableDictionary - "Poorish read speed, no locking required but more allocations require to update than a dictionary." Another one that isn't often used but I'll add as it's good to know about is KeyedCollection - Generic and ordered. Uses Dictionary and List underneath This is great advice from David: Use the most obvious one until it bites you. Most software engineering is like this. Measure and test, measure and test. Good luck to you! Sponsor: Make login Auth0's problem. Not yours. Provide the convenient login features your customers want, like social login, multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, passwordless, and more. Get started for free.(C) 2021 Scott Hanselman. All rights reserved.     

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CloudBees is aiming to make improvements to feature management and compliance through new updates to its platforms announced at its DevOps World 2021 conference. CloudBees Feature Management now provides full visibility into feature flags throughout development and release pipelines. This allows companies to more efficiently scale their use of feature flags. The platform now integrates … continue reading The post CloudBees makes improvements to feature management and compliance appeared first on SD Times.

Typefaces are designed keeping the tiniest details in mind. It is also the emotive quality of these individualistic typefaces that help us express and communicate ideas with clarity. Our fascination with letterforms and typography and using it as a tool for expression has evolved with time. So has the typefaces and how we use them […] The post The Nuances of Typography: Ligatures, Diphthongs, Swash Characters & Variables Fonts appeared first on Line25.

(This is a sponsored article.) As designers working primarily on screen, we often think of user experience design as being primarily a screen-focused activity. In fact, user experience affects the entirety of what we build and that often includes activities that are undertaken off-screen. To design truly memorable experiences, we need to widen our frame of reference to include all of the brand touchpoints that our users come into contact with along their customer journey.

A user wrote in the other day asking us to add this PostCSS plugin: postcss-px-to-viewport. We’re always happy to consider them as needed, and this one looks pretty neat and pretty popular. It also blows my mind a little bit. All you do is size things in traditional units like px and it turns them […] The post postcss-px-to-viewport appeared first on CodePen Blog.

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