XPRT Magazine 14
XPRT Magazine 14 explores digital transformation, the rise of AI and ChatGPT, cloud security, Blazor migrations, CI/CD workflows, load testing, identity management, and more. This issue provides practical strategies and technical insights for navigating modern software engineering and security challenges.
Summary of Magazine 14
AI, Automation, and Digital Transformation
- Is ChatGPT a Better Software Engineer than Me?: Examines the evolution of AI, ChatGPT’s capabilities, and its impact on software engineering roles.
- 5 Reasons Why Digital Transformations Fail: Key pitfalls and lessons learned from failed digital transformation projects.
Cloud, Security, and Identity
- Ten Tips and Tricks to Secure Your Azure Subscription: Best practices for securing Azure environments.
- Zero Trust – Never Trust, Always Verify: Implementing zero trust security principles in the cloud.
- Preventing Identity Crisis in Azure: Strategies for robust identity and access management.
- Unpacking Access Packages: Managing access and permissions in cloud environments.
- Identity Access Management in Microsoft 365: Securing identities and access in Microsoft 365.
- OAuth2 Device Flow-Proxy Using Free Azure Components: Implementing secure OAuth2 flows with Azure.
- Mocking OpenID Connect Providers: Techniques for testing authentication flows.
Modern Development and Testing
- Upgrade Your App to the Future: Migrating from WPF or WinForms to Blazor: Guidance for modernizing legacy applications.
- Entity Framework Extensions: Enhancing data access with advanced Entity Framework techniques.
- Mutation Testing in C#: Improving code quality with mutation testing.
- Adding Load Testing to Your CI/CD Workflows in GitHub Actions: Integrating load testing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Bicep vs Pulumi vs Terraform: Comparing infrastructure as code tools for cloud automation.