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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.
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Next.js 9.3 Released, Improves Static Site Generation
The Next.js team recently released Next.js 9.3, featuring improved static website generation and preview and adding Sass support, while shipping a smaller runtime.
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Chrome Phasing out Support for User Agent
Google announced its decision to drop support for the User-Agent string in its Chrome browser. Instead, Chrome will offer a new API called Client Hints that will give the user greater control over which information is shared with websites.
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Amazon Introduces Bottlerocket, a Linux-Based OS for Container Hosting
Recently, Amazon announced a new Linux-based open-source operating system (OS) called Bottlerocket, which is purpose-built to run containers. Bottlerocket is currently in public preview as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for customers to try out.
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CSS Writing Modes Now an Official Web Standard
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently announced that CSS Writing Modes Level 3 is now an official web standard. The new CSS standard enables developers to configure texts to be laid out horizontally or vertically, as well as to set the direction in which lines are stacked. Thanks to CSS Writing Modes, content in a large number of languages can be natively displayed.
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NGINX Releases Controller 3.0 with Major Redesign Providing Consolidated Application View
NGINX announced the release of NGINX Controller 3.0, their control-plane solution to manage the NGINX data plane. The 3.0 release sees a full redesign of Controller moving it into an "app-centric experience" that allows for interacting with the infrastructure at the application level. This includes a full configuration API, a role based self-service portal, and a built in certificate manager.
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Google Propeller Squeezes Extra Performance from Large-Scale LLVM Binaries
Google Propeller is able to improve the performance of LLVM binaries by relinking and optimizing them based on a profile of their behaviour at runtime. Propeller can bring 2-9% improvements on key performance benchmarks for binaries that were previously highly optimized by LLVM, say Google engineers.
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Platform9 Announce Free SaaS-Managed Kubernetes Solution
Platform9, a SaaS-managed hybrid cloud platform, has announced a free managed Kubernetes service for hybrid environments with automated Day2 operations including one-click upgrades, security patching, and monitoring. The new free tier enables users to take advantage of a SaaS management plane for Kubernetes on hybrid environments.
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JavaFX 14 Released
JavaFX 14 is available to help developers create cross-platform GUI applications with a single codebase. Improvements include HTTP/2 support with an embedded browser, controlled by native Java code.
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Prettier 2.0 Supports Typescript 3.8, Improves CLI
The opinionated code formatter Prettier recently released its second major iteration. Prettier 2.0 adds support for TypeScript 3.8. The new Prettier also strives to provide better defaults, a better CLI and better heuristics.
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Project OWL Enables Disaster-Relief Solutions Using Wireless Mesh Networks
Backed by IBM and adopted by the Linux Foundation, Project OWL aims to make it possible to build mesh network nodes that are able to reconfigure themselves to avoid prolonged connectivity loss. The project targets scenarios such as natural disasters, where communication links become quickly unavailable or unreliable.
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HTTP APIs for Amazon API Gateway Are Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability (GA) of HTTP APIs in the API Gateway on AWS. With HTTP APIs, the public cloud provider will offer the core functionality of REST API at a lower price, reduction of the latency overhead, and ease of use.
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Material-UI 4.9 Release Improves Support for Material Design Specification
Material-UI, a React UI framework, recently released version 4.9.0 with dozens of improvements to UI components and better alignment with the Material Design specification. This release added or resolved inconsistencies with hover across several key UI components including the IconButton, ListItem, and TableRow. The release resolves dozens of smaller inconsistencies and makes refinements.
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Adaptive Loading for a Faster Web
The Google Chrome team recently introduced Adaptive Loading, an exploration for loading and rendering the most suitable version of a component based on network speed, CPU, memory, and other web platform signals.