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Sucrase, a Faster Babel for Modern JS Runtimes
The Sucrase JavaScript/TypeScript compiler aims at providing significantly faster development builds than the Babel compiler. Faster builds mean faster iterations, specially when testing on a large codebase. Some empirical measures show a gain in speed between 4x and 20x vs. Babel. Developers may thus enjoy the improved developer experience in development, and still resort to Babel in production.
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Cloudflare CIRCL Experiments in Post-Quantum Cryptography
Cloudflare has open-sourced CIRCL (Cloudflare Interoperable, Reusable Cryptographic Library), a collection of algorithms for post-quantum (PQ), elliptic curve cryptography, and hashing for prime groups.
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Kyma 1.0 Released, Simplifying Integrating Enterprise Applications with Cloud-Native Services
The first major release of Kyma, an open-source project designed to simplify building cloud-based and on-premise enterprise applications, is now available. Kyma provides components to simplify connecting existing and new applications with Kubernetes and expose them via the Kubernetes Service Catalog, with out-of-the-box support for monitoring, logging, eventing, tracing, and authentication.
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.NET Core: Past, Present, and Future
During the latest edition of Microsoft Build, Microsoft’s .NET program manager Scott Hunter published an article stating that .NET Core is the future of .NET .
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W3C and FIDO Alliance Finalized WebAuthn, Web Standard for Secure, Passwordless Logins
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance recently announced that the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) specification is now an official web standard. WebAuthn allows users to log in via biometrics, mobile devices and/or FIDO security keys, with higher security over passwords alone.
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Experience Building Distributed Systems and Microservices — Jeppe Cramon at Micro CPH
We must understand the business domain we are working in, identify the bounded contexts and the business capabilities, and design our services using this knowledge. In a presentation at Micro CPH, Jeppe Cramon talked about his experience working with distributed systems, microservices and the principles and patterns he sees as beneficial for successfully creating microservices based systems.
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C# 8 Pattern Matching Enhancements
C# 7 laid the groundwork for pattern matching, but a lot of features had to be left on the cutting room floor. With the extra time C# 8 needs, many of these are being picked up.
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C# 8 Nullable Value Type Enhancements
First introduced in .NET 2, very little has changed for Nullable<T> over the last decade and a half, but that looks like it is about to change. Much of the work going into supporting nullable reference types in C# 8 may be applied to nullable value types.
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Google Cloud Scheduler is Now Generally Available
In a recent blog, Google announced that customers can now securely invoke HTTP targets on a schedule using Cloud Scheduler – a fully managed cron job service that allows any application to invoke batch, big data, and cloud infrastructure operations.
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@Pika/web Frees Modern Web Development from the Complexity of Package Bundling
@pika/web, part of the pika tool chain, aims at improving web application developers' experience by turning often-complex bundling processes into an opt-in feature. With @pika/web, developers can run `npm` packages directly in the browser. Bundlers, like Browserify, Webpack or import maps, may be used but are no longer required.
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Azul Systems Discuss Java's Present and Future
InfoQ caught up with Simon Ritter, deputy CTO of Azul Systems, to talk about their JVM products and the current status and future of Java.
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TypeScript 3.5 Adds Omit Type, Smarter Union Type Checking
The TypeScript team has announced the release of TypeScript 3.5, including type checking performance improvements and a new Omit type.
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GraalVM 19.0: the Anticipated GA Release
More than a year of numerous release candidates, Oracle has released the GA version of GraalVM 19.0, a polyglot virtual machine and platform created by Oracle Labs. Features added in the RC releases include: migrating Nashorn to GraalVM, integration with Python’s numpy library, and a managed mode LLVM interpreter. Oracle Labs have also included the formal release of GraalVM Enterprise Edition.
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The Polymer Project Releases Lit-Html and LitElement for Performance-Focused Web Components
The Polymer Project recently released lit-html v1.0 together with LitElement v2.0. lit-html is a light-weight, extensible HTML templating JavaScript library. LitElement is a JavaScript library to create lightweight, optimized-for-performance web components. The created web components can then be used in any framework or no framework to build web applications.
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Eclipse Introduces New IDE-Agnostic Tools for Building and Deploying Cloud-Native Applications
Eclipse Codewind is a new developer-centric project from the Eclipse Foundation that aims to assist developers by providing ways to quickly and consistently accomplish tasks that are common to cloud-native application development.