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NativeScript 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 Releases Add Svelte, WebAssembly, KotlinJS and Performance Improvements
The recent NativeScript 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5 releases add a wide range of new features to their framework for building native mobile apps with TypeScript or JavaScript. Highlights in these releases include performance improvements to CSS parsing and CLI commands, support WebAssembly on Android and Svelte, 3D View Transformations, and experimental KotlinJS Support.
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Reimagining CI/CD Pipelines as Composable Blocks with Bryan Liles
Bryan Liles, senior staff engineer at VMWare, talked at the DeliveryConf about ideas of patterns and recommendations when building CI/CD pipelines. Liles recommends thinking about CI/CD as patterns instead of implementations, like merely using Jenkins or Spinnaker. It should be possible to build a platform with composable blocks with replaceable components and agnostic to a technology stack.
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DNSSEC Signing Potentially Interrupted by Coronoavirus
The DNSSEC signing process, which has happened every three months for the last ten years, is likely to be unable to happen due to travel restrictions caused by Coronavirus. Read on to find out what the problems are, and how they plan on keeping DNSSEC running after summer 2020.
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Ionic's Stencil Component Compiler Design Considerations -- Adam Bradley at DotJS2019
Adam Bradley, creator of StencilJS and co-creator of Ionic Framework, reviewed at dotjs2019 the design and architecture that went into Stencil, a component compiler which generates framework agnostic components.
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Adobe Open-Sources Adaptive, Accessible Color Palettes Generator
Nate Baldwin, designer @Adobe’s design system Spectrum, released Leonardo 1.0, an open source color generator. Leonardo strives to enhance designer productivity and end-user experience by automating the creation of accessible, adaptive color systems using contrast-ratio based generated colors. Leonardo also supports full theme generation and is intended for both designers and engineers.
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Google Announces Cloud AI Platform Pipelines to Simplify Machine Learning Development
In a recent blog post, Google announced the beta of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, which provides users with a way to deploy robust, repeatable machine learning pipelines along with monitoring, auditing, version tracking, and reproducibility.
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WebDriverIO Version 6 Release Adds Native Chrome DevTools Automation Protocol Support
The recent release of WebDriverIO version 6, a browser test automation framework for Node.js, adds Chrome DevTools protocol testing to its existing support for WebDriver and makes it easier to leverage tools like Puppeteer and Cypress.io.
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Amazon Introduces a New Feature for ElastiCache for Redis: Global Datastore
Recently Amazon announced Global Datastore, a new feature of Amazon ElastiCache for Redis that provides fully managed, fast, reliable and secure cross-region replication.
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Google's MediaPipe Machine Learning Framework Web-Enabled with WebAssembly
Google recently presented MediaPipe graphs for browsers, enabled by WebAssembly and accelerated by the XNNPack ML Inference Library. As previously demonstrated on mobile (Android, iOS), MediaPipe graphs allow developers to build and run machine-learning (ML) pipelines, to achieve complex tasks.
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Git 2.26 Makes Protocol Version 2 the Default
Introduced in Git 2.18, Git wire protocol version 2 is now used by default in Git's latest version, 2.26. Git 2.26 also improves configuration option handling and sparse-checkouts, among other things.
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Facebook Introduces Rome Experimental JavaScript Toolchain
Rome is an experimental JavaScript toolchain created by Babel and yarn creator Sebastian McKenzie and the React Native team at Facebook. Rome includes a compiler, linter, formatter, bundler, and testing framework, aiming to be "a comprehensive tool for anything related to the processing of JavaScript source code."
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3D Printed N95 Masks Not Viable
The 3D printing community can create many unique parts to assist with COVID-19 shortages, but plans for printed N95 masks pose a number of difficulties.
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Web Components at Scale at Salesforce: Challenges Encountered, Lessons Learnt
Diego Ferreiro Val, principal architect at Salesforce, co-creator of Lightning Web Components (LWC), talked at WebComponentsSF about the challenges and lessons in building a platform leveraging web components at enterprise scale. Albeit with missing pieces, the web components standard was instrumental to achieve Salesforce’s interoperability, backward and forward compatibility objectives at scale.
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Babel 7.9 Reduces Bundle Sizes, Adds TypeScript 3.8 Support
The Babel 7.9 release decreases default bundle sizes when using the module/nomodule pattern and adds support for TypeScript 3.8 and its type-only imports and exports. Babel 7.9 also improves optimizations for JSX transforms and adds experimental parser support for the ES Record & Tuple proposal.
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Improving Incident Management through Role Assignments and Game Days
John Arundel, principal consultant at Bitfield Consulting, shared his thoughts on how to ensure incidents are handled smoothly and quickly. He suggests assigning specific roles to each team member responding to the incident. Red team versus blue team exercises can also be leveraged to ensure the team is prepared to respond accurately and quickly.