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Creating an iCalendar event with HTML content

• Yassine Benabbas
• 5 Min To Read
• 20 Jun, 2023
• • Software engineering

Introduction

One of the most used open standards open for exchanging calendar and scheduling information between users and computers is iCalendar. An iCalendar file is simply a text file with .ics extensions. Since this is open standard, it is supported by many apps, such as Outlook. The icalendar.org website provides a great introduction and some history about the iCalendar standard.

Spring Boot 3 and GraalVM

• Max Beckers
• 7 Min To Read
• 06 Jun, 2023
• • Development and programming

Spring Boot 3 comes with the support for native images. This is the part for GraalVM . GraalVM transitions from a just-in-time (JIT) compiler built into OpenJDK to an ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation. As a result, it speeds up the startup time and reduces the memory usage of (Micro-)Services, improving the efficiency for cloud environments.

Govmomi a VMware toolbox

• Valery Brasseur
• 6 Min To Read
• 18 Apr, 2023
• • Development and programming

What is Govmomi

Govmomi is an open-source library for managing VMware vSphere. It allows developers to create applications to manage VMware vSphere resources, such as virtual machines, networks and storage.

HSM in the cloud: opportunity or contradiction?

• Jurjen N.E. Bos
• 6 Min To Read
• 05 Apr, 2023
• • Cybersecurity

As many other companies, my employer (Worldline) is busy building cloud applications, and moving current applications to the cloud. Of course, cryptography is used in many ways in these applications. Many of these applications use HSMs (Host Security Modules) to improve the security of the cryptographic keys. This is what an HSM looks like:

Immutable OS

• Valery Brasseur
• 6 Min To Read
• 29 Mar, 2023
• • Infrastructure and operations

What is an Immutable OS ?

The definition of the word immutable is “unchanging over time or unable to be changed.”

Troubleshoot SSL/TLS mutual authentication with openssl s_server

• Gerben Castel
• 4 Min To Read
• 07 Mar, 2023
• • Cybersecurity

Each secure communication between a browser and a HTTP server begins with a SSL/TLS handshake.