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The Cost of JavaScript 2019: Improvement Opportunities Now Mostly in Download and Execution
Addy Osmani, engineering manager at Google working on Chrome, recently presented the actualized findings of the Cost of JavaScript study. Osmani contends that, as browsers engineer improvements in JavaScript parsing and compiling time, the dominant costs of processing scripts are increasingly download and CPU execution time.
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First Look at the Web Share API: Exposing the Native Device Sharing Capabilities to the Browser
Native device sharing is now possible within web browsers using the Web Share API that was recently released. Find out how it works and what's coming next in the full article
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AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Is Generally Available, Enhancing Coding Cloud Infrastructure
Recently, Amazin announced the general availability of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), an extensible open-source software development framework allowing developers to model and provision their cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages.
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GraphQL Foundation and Joint Development Foundation Collaborate to Drive API Consumption Standards
The GraphQL Foundation recently announced collaboration with the Joint Development Foundation to continue developing the GraphQL specification and accelerate the adoption of open-source and standards for API development and consumption.
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RedisTimeSeries Module Adds Time Series Database Features to Redis
Redis Labs announced the general availability of a module RedisTimeSeries to provide time series storage and analysis functions.
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Introducing Javalin: a Lightweight Web Framework for Java and Kotlin
Javalin is a lightweight web framework for Java and Kotlin designed to be simple and blocking by default, supporting websockets, HTTP2, and async requests.
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Microsoft Releases a New Azure SDK in Preview, Meeting New Azure API Standards
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the releases of their new Azure SDKs for Azure Storage, Cosmos DB, Event Hub, and Key Vault.
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High Scalability Workflow Engine Zeebe is Production Ready
Zeebe is a workflow engine designed to meet the scalability requirements of high-performance applications running on cloud-native and event-driven architectures, and to support workflows that span multiple microservices in low latency, high-throughput scenarios. Zeebe 0.20.0 has just been released as a free community edition and is considered production ready.
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Helidon Supports GraalVM for Native Executable Applications
Shortly after the release of Helidon 1.0, Oracle announced Helidon support for GraalVM that converts Helidon applications to native executable code via the native-image utility. Helidon was designed to be simple and fast, and is comprised of two versions: Helidon SE and Helidon MP. Dmitry Kornilov, senior software development manager at Oracle, spoke to InfoQ about Helidon support for GraalVM.
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Rust 1.36 Stabilizes Futures, Backports Non-Lexical Lifetimes, and More
Following its roadmap to Rust 2018, Rust 1.36's most awaited new feature is support for the Future trait, which is the first step towards bringing async/await to the language. Additionally, it backports non-lexical lifetimes (NLL) to improve the borrow checker, and introduces a new alloc crate to enable the creation of memory allocation-dependent libraries that do not require std.
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Weaveworks Releases Ignite, AWS Firecracker-Powered Software for Running Containers as VMs
Software startup Weaveworks celebrated their fifth birthday by releasing an open source project called Weave Ignite. This project is billed as a "GitOps-managed virtual machine (VM) with a container UX." This novel software uses Firecracker, the AWS open source project that underpins AWS Lambda. InfoQ spoke to team behind the project to learn more.
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Google Formalizes Robots Exclusion Protocol in Effort to Make It an Internet Standard
The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) has governed the rules defining how to prevent crawlers from accessing a website since 1994. Now, Google has submitted a draft to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to make it an Internet Standard. In addition, Google has open sourced its implementation of the protocol.
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Spring Boot Project-Creation-Tool, Spring Initializr, Gets Several New Updates
Spring Initializr received several updates and additions including the addition of a highly requested feature, a project explorer. They also included a refactored and redesigned project generation API and a newly redesigned UI.
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MicroProfile 3.0: Updated Rest Client + Metrics 2.0 and Health Check 2.0
Eclipse MicroProfile 3.0 was recently released with updates to its Rest Client, Metrics, and Health Check APIs. MicroProfile 3.0 leverages Java EE 8 as its foundation for the development of Java microservices.
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Amazon Releases Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Aurora Serverless.