Open Outlook: Middleware (part 1)

Middleware, both as a term and as a concept, has been around for decades. As a term, like other terms in the Darwinian world of IT jargon, it has followed a typical fashion lifecycle and is perhaps somewhat past its apogee of vogue. As a concept, however, middleware is more relevant than ever, and while a memetic new label hasn't quite displaced the traditional term, the capabilities themselves are still very much at the heart of enterprise application development. Middleware is about making both developers and operators more productive. Analogous to standardized, widely-used, proven subassemblies in the manufacture of physical goods such as cars, middleware relieves developers from "reinventing the wheel" so that they can compose and innovate at higher levels of abstraction. For the staff responsible for operating applications in production, at scale, with high reliability and performance, the more such applications use standardized middleware components and services, the more efficient and reliable the running of the application can be.

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Security updates for Tuesday

Vulkan 1.1.101 Released With Two New Extensions - Including Another To Help DXVK

Coming just one week after the Vulkan 1.1.100 release and just days after the Vulkan API celebrated its third birthday, Vulkan 1.1.101 is now available. Vulkan 1.1.101 is a bit more eventful than 1.1.100 in that there are two new extensions introduced and then a number of issue corrections/clarifications to the documentation.

In Save Koch, you are a mafia kingpin trapped inside your own panic room and it's coming to Linux

Save Koch from developer Wooden Monkeys could be a very interesting one, a strategic sim that puts you in the shoes of a trapped mafia kingpin as you try to save your empire and your life.

The 3D steampunk dungeon crawler 'Vaporum' just had a huge performance update

I think Vaporum is a really great dungeon crawler, with good visuals and a rather interesting setting and it just keeps getting better. When I originally took a look at the game back in February last year, I noted how in terms of performance I was hitting around 50FPS. With today's update, that's often double what it was which is madness.

Organize Files In Filetype-Based Named Directories On Linux Using Organizer (GUI)

Organizer is new and doesn't have a lot of features yet, but it can already be very helpful in organizing messy directories, like the Downloads or Desktop folders for example. Currently Organizer supports organizing directories containing the following type of files: images (jpg, png, etc.), documents (pdf, odt, doc/docx, etc.), spreadsheets (ods, xls/xlsx), presentations (odp, ppt/pptx), videos (mkv, mp4, webm, and so on), music (flac, mp3, etc.), archives (tar.gz, zip, rar, etc.) and other (for example AppImage and deb binaries).

Handbrake Video Transcoder 1.2.1 Released (Ubuntu PPA)

Handbrake video transcode 1.2.1 was released a few days ago with numerous bug-fixes and improvements.

Connecting a physical host to libvirt NAT network

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Google revises proposed Chrome ad blocker changes after public outcry and legal threats

Qualcomm working on QM215 chipset for Android Go devices: Report

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X55 5G modem can reach 7Gbps download speeds

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