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Swift Aims to Become a Data Race-Free Concurrent Language
The Swift team has published its roadmap to improve concurrency support in Swift. In a first phase, Swift will gain the async syntax and actors, while in a second phase focus will be on eliminating data races and deadlocks.
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Google Introduces a New Version of Its Cloud Shell Editor
Google provides customers with Cloud Shell - a command-line editor in a browser to access their cloud resources directly. In a recent blog post, Google introduced a new version of its Cloud Shell Editor, which is available as a preview.
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UX Patterns: Stale-While-Revalidate
Stale-while-revalidate (SWR) caching strategies provide faster feedback to the user of web applications, while still allowing eventual consistency. Faster feedback reduces the necessity to show spinners and may result in better-perceived user experience.
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Redwood - Bringing the Ruby on Rails Experience to JavaScript
Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of GitHub, released RedwoodJS, a new fullstack, edge-ready JavaScript web framework. Redwood is highly opinionated and integrates pre-determined back-end and front-end stacks. Redwood follows convention-over-configuration principles and strives to provide a Ruby on Rails-like developer experience.
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Amazon SNS Supports FIFO for Pub/Sub Messaging
AWS has recently introduced support for First-in-First-out (FIFO) topics in Amazon SNS with strict ordering and deduplication of messages. The new feature enforces ordering in which messages are sent and received, and avoids that a message is processed multiple times.
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Uno Platform 3.1 Released
Earlier this month, Uno released version 3.1 of their multi-platform UI framework for .NET developers. The highlight of the new release is the extended support for Linux, built using a Skia-based backend. Other relevant features include new controls (such as WinUI TreeView and TabView), WinUI Color Picker support for mobile applications, and Prism 8.0 templates.
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Ubuntu 20.10 Brings Full Desktop and Micro Clouds to Raspberry Pi 4
Ubuntu Desktop 20.10 is now fully supported on the Raspberry Pi 4, which can be transformed into a complete Ubuntu workstation, says Ubuntu. Ubuntu 20.10 also introduces Micro Clouds for on-demand compute at the edge.
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AWS Publishes Best Practices Guide for Operational Dashboards
AWS recently added to the Amazon Builders' Library their best practices for building dashboards for operational visibility. The document includes a detailed description of the different types of dashboards that exist at Amazon as well as a discussion of the design best practices used to create dashboards.
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AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Available for Public Preview
Recently, AWS announced the public preview of the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, a secure, production-ready, AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. With the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, developers can instrument their applications in one go to send correlated metrics and traces to multiple monitoring solutions ranging from Amazon Cloudwatch to Datadog and Grafana.
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JavaScript Smart Contract Platform Agoric Integrates with Chainlink Oracle
The integration of Chainlink oracles with Agoric smart contract platform aims to enable the use of decentralized finance (DeFi) data and events in JavaScript smart contract applications.
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Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Gains Delivery to HTTP Endpoints
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose recently gained support to deliver streaming data to generic HTTP endpoints. This also enables additional AWS services as destinations via Amazon API Gateway's service integration. The new capability is complemented with dedicated integrations of additional third-party service providers like Datadog, MongoDB, and New Relic.
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Svelte at the Edge - Luke Edwards at Svelte Summit
Luke Edwards recently gave a talk at Svelte Summit 2020 in which he discussed running Svelte application at the edge. Edwards demoed building and running a simple Svelte application with CloudFlare Workers and Google Cloud.
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Bytecode Alliance Lays out Plans for WebAssembly on the Server-Side
Bytecode Alliance laid out a concrete vision for wasm-on-the-server. At the same time, the Wasm open-source community is now far larger than the corporations in Bytecode Alliance. There are multiple Wasm VM implementations, complier toolchains for programming languages, as well as host Operating Systems and environments (e.g., Node.js, Deno, or blockchains).
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Better Managing Cost in AWS with Budgets Actions
Recently, AWS announced budgets actions allowing customers to define actions to take when a budget exceeds its threshold (actual or forecasted amounts). With budget actions, customers will have more control over their AWS Budgets in order to reduce unintentional overspending in their AWS accounts.
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The Next Svelte May Be Serverless-First -- Rich Harris at Svelte Summit
Rich Harris, the creator of Svelte, lifted the curtain over the experiments that have been taking place around Svelte (the UI framework and compiler) and Sapper (Svelte’s application framework). Harris gave a glimpse of a potential future in which Svelte is a serverless-first framework.