--- title: "The merging of Windows and Linux continues at Build" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 267 published_at: "2020-05-20" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/267" --- Plus Chrome's DNS over HTTPS, what modern DDoSes look like, and Maxim's secret Sim-game department. #267 — May 20, 2020 [Read on the Web](https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/267) StatusCode Weekly Covering the week's news in software development, ops, platforms, and tooling. [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/mkfdglczrpqvnddgor8k.jpg)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-package-manager-preview/) [Windows Gets a Package Manager, a Terminal, Linux GUI Apps, and.. and..](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-package-manager-preview/) — The flurry of news from this week’s Microsoft Build event (taking place _online_ this year, of course) is thick and fast, but we’re going to lead with Windows now having a new package manager ready for you to try: _Windows Package Manager._ In other news, MS is close to having [Linux GUI apps running on Windows 10](https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/19/21263377/microsoft-windows-10-linux-gui-apps-gpu-acceleration-wsl-features), there’s a new Terminal (see our _Code & Tools_ section), [.NET Multi-Platform App UI](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-multi-platform-app-ui/), and even [DirectX for Linux](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-heart-linux/). It’s an exciting time even if, like me, you’re not often in the Windows world. Microsoft [Chrome's Secure DNS Plans for Safer, More Private Browsing](https://blog.chromium.org/2020/05/a-safer-and-more-private-browsing-DoH.html) — Firefox has been flying the [DNS over HTTPS flag](https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/02/25/firefox-continues-push-to-bring-dns-over-https-by-default-for-us-users/) for a while now, but with Chrome 83 a _similar_ option is coming to Chrome with the key difference being that Chrome will _upgrade_ to DNS-over-HTTPS where it’s available while remaining with the _same DNS provider_ currently being used. Kenji Baheux (Chrome) [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/80c0e2b6.png)](https://www.ardanlabs.com/corporate-training/?utm_source=Cooperpress%20PrimaryV2) [We Now Offer Remote Go, Docker or Kubernetes Training](https://www.ardanlabs.com/corporate-training/?utm_source=Cooperpress%20PrimaryV2) — We offer live-streaming remote training as well as video training for engineers and companies that want to learn Go, Docker and/or Kubernetes. Having trained over 5,000 engineers, we have carefully crafted these classes for students to get as much value as possible. Ardan Labs sponsor [Microsoft Unveils 'Azure Static Web Apps'](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-app-service/introducing-app-service-static-web-apps/ba-p/1394451) — [Azure Static Web Apps](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/app-service/static/) brings modern static site deployment to Azure and integrates with GitHub and Visual Studio Code too. Want to see more? Here’s a [6 minute screencast demo.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWEYfyLu1ew) Microsoft [Network-Layer DDoS Attack Trends for Q1 2020](https://blog.cloudflare.com/network-layer-ddos-attack-trends-for-q1-2020/) — Cloudflare takes a look at how DDoS attacks have changed in a time when the way many of us use the Internet has changed significantly. Omer Yoahimik and Arun Singh (Cloudflare) **⚡️ Quick bytes:** - Rust is five years old! [This look back](https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/05/15/five-years-of-rust.html) covers all of its improvements over time pretty well. - GCC has supported modern C/C++ dialects for years but as from now [C++11 will be the default C++ dialect.](https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/5329b59a2e13dabbe2038af0fe2e3cf5fc7f98ed) - Linode has [released their Kubernetes Engine service](https://www.linode.com/blog/kubernetes/linode-kubernetes-engine-general-availability/) as a way to orchestrate Kubernetes deployments on their platform. - Facebook has unveiled [Facebook Shops](https://about.fb.com/news/2020/05/introducing-facebook-shops/) as a way to sell things directly in the Facebook and Instagram apps. - The New York Times is [phasing out third-party advertising data.](https://www.axios.com/new-york-times-advertising-792b3cd6-4bdb-47c3-9817-36601211a79d.html) How is this developer-related news? It ties into an increasing desire for privacy amongst all Web users and how browsers, etc. are [beginning to block third-party cookies](https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/14/21064698/google-third-party-cookies-chrome-two-years-privacy-safari-firefox) and the like. - Unreal Engine 5 is the next major release of one of the most popular 3D engines out there and [it looks absolutely amazing.](https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/a-first-look-at-unreal-engine-5) 💻 Jobs [Find a Job Through Vettery](https://www.vettery.com/tech?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=cooper-webopsweekly&utm_term=tech&utm_content=grouped&utm_campaign=ad-77581) — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started. Vettery [DevOps Engineer at X-Team (Remote)](https://x-team.com/remote-devops-engineer-jobs/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email-ad&utm_campaign=webops) — Join X-Team and work on projects for companies like Riot Games, FOX, Coinbase, and more. 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Armando Migliaccio (DigitalOcean) [Ask HN: Dear Open Source Devs How Do You Sustain Yourself?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23218943) — Some nice stories and insights in this popular Hacker News thread. Hacker News [The HTTP Headers You Don't Expect](https://frenxi.com/http-headers-you-dont-expect/) — Similar to a site adding a comment in its HTML or the browser’s console, but of course HTTP headers are more likely to go unnoticed.. Francesco Carlucci [Ask HN: Is There Still a Place for Native Desktop Apps?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23211851) — In a world of Electron and other JavaScript/CSS powered desktop web app systems, how valuable is _native_ desktop development? A lot, as it turns out. Hacker News 📖 Tutorials [A Beginner Friendly Introduction to Prometheus](https://github.com/yolossn/Prometheus-Basics#readme) — [Prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus) is a popular system monitoring and alerting system that’s built in Go. 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Frédéric Barthelet [Using lambda@Edge for Server-Side Rendering](https://medium.com/medwing-engineering-product-design/using-lambda-edge-for-server-side-rendering-318d9422d76b) Mohamed Elfiky ▶[13 Talks from Failover Conf 2020](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIx5ktghjqItStdp_NUh3CQ_y4M49Gb1#failoverconf) — [Failover Conf](https://failover-conf.heysummit.com/) was a virtual conference all about reliability and resilience engineering. Talks cover serverless, chaos engineering, devops, and [improving a distributed system after a major incident.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MssnKhNa7L4&list=PLLIx5ktghjqItStdp_NUh3CQ_y4M49Gb1&index=13&t=0s) Failover Conf [Getting Started with Rust by Building a Tiny Markdown Compiler](https://jesselawson.org/rust/getting-started-with-rust-by-building-a-tiny-markdown-compiler/) Jesse Lawson 🛠 Code and Tools [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/bwmapwg2w0xw1y9sx54i.jpg)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-1-0/) [Windows Terminal 1.0: A New Windows Command Line Option](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-1-0/) — Windows now has an official Unix-esque terminal app to be proud of complete with tabs, panes, GPU accelerated rendering.. _and_ it’s [open source.](https://github.com/microsoft/terminal) What a world we live in. Monthly updates are promised. Kayla Cinnamon [Faster CI/CD for All Your Software Projects Using Buildkite](https://buildkite.com/?pk_campaign=statuscode-200520&pk_source=cp-statuscode&pk_medium=newsletter) — See how Shopify scaled from 300 to 1800 engineers while keeping their build times under 5 minutes. Buildkite sponsor [Deno 1.0 Released: A New JavaScript Runtime (That Isn't Node)](https://deno.land/v1) — Deno is a new JavaScript runtime from Node’s original creator. It has a lot of compelling features, like security whitelisting and a single executable distribution. We’ve also launched [a newsletter dedicated to it.](https://denoweekly.com/) Ryan Dahl, Bert Belder, and Bartek Iwańczuk [Amazon Kendra: Amazon's New Take on Enterprise Search](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/reinventing-enterprise-search-amazon-kendra-is-now-generally-available/) — [Kendra](https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/) is a new search service on AWS that uses machine learning to answer natural language queries from end users. Julien Simon (AWS) [NGINX Config: An Online NGINX Configuration File Generator](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tools/nginx) — It seems DigitalOcean has given a new home to this handy tool formerly known as `nginxconfig.io`. Fill out as many boxes are you can on areas like security, sites you want to host, logging, and more, and you get NGINX config files ready to go. DigitalOcean [Guardian: A New Tool to Automate Serverless Best Practices](https://medium.com/serverless-transformation/how-to-succeed-with-serverless-automate-best-practices-2a41894721a3) — [sls-dev-tools](https://github.com/Theodo-UK/sls-dev-tools) is a suite of AWS Lambda-focused ‘devtools’ and it’s just gained a new member: _Guardian_ is a new audit tool that does best practice auditing of your projects – this post digs into how it works. Ben Ellerby Curated by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/). 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