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How Using Modern JavaScript May Improve Performance
Houssein Djirdeh and Jason Miller recently explained at the Chrome Developer Summit 2020 how modern JavaScript may shorten the size and improve the performance of web applications. The estimator.dev website provides Google’s estimation of the potential savings and suggests plugins that help materialize those savings.
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Cockroach Labs 2021 Cloud Report: GCP Outpaces Azure and AWS
Cockroach Labs recently released their annual cloud report identifying Google Cloud Platform as the best overall provider. The 2021 Cloud Report compares AWS, Azure, and GCP on benchmarks that reflect critical applications and workloads.
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Embracing Observability in Distributed Systems at InfoQ Live (Virtual Event on Feb 16th)
InfoQ Live, the one-day virtual event designed for the modern software practitioner, returns on Feb 16th, 2021. The focus of this edition is to explore and discover practical ways you can use and integrate observability into your distributed system architecture. Join us on Feb 16th from 9 am EDT / 3 PM CEST. Register for only $19.95.
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Next.JS 10 Brings Automatic Image Optimization, Internationalized Routing, and Web Vitals Analytics
Vercel, the creator of the Next.js React framework, recently announced Next.js 10 at the first annual Next.js Conf. Next.js 10 features automatic image optimization, internationalized routing, continuous web vitals analytics.
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RSLint, a New, Fast JavaScript Linter Written in Rust
Dambrosio recently released RSLint, a linter for JavaScript that is written entirely in Rust. RSLint strives to be as fast as possible, customizable, and easy to use. RSLint is still in the early phase of its development and features basic Visual Studio Code integration.
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AWS Introduces New EBS Volume io2 with Higher Durability and IOPS/GiB
AWS recently introduced a new provisioned IOPS volume type (io2) for high-performance databases and workloads that offers a durability of 99.999% and the ability to provision up to 500 IOPS for every GiB of storage.
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eBay Rearchitected Android App to Leverage App Bundles and Dynamic Feature Delivery
eBay engineers worked with Google to rearchitecture and reimplement their mobile app to take advantage of several new technologies, including Android app bundles (AAB) and Kotlin. They also took the chance to improve test automation, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), and overcome global infrastructure limitations.
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Go 1.16 Will Support Register-Based Calling Convention
The Go team is working to implement a minimum viable register-based calling convention in Go 1.16. This change could provide 5-10% throughput improvement, according to the Google Go team, while keeping backward compatibility for code using Go current stack-based calling convention.
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Amazon Announces the General Availability of AWS Glue 2.0
AWS Glue is a fully-managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics. With AWS Glue, customers don’t have to provision or manage any resources, and only pay for resources when the service is running.
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High Resolution Time Level 2 Is Now a Web Standard
High Resolution Time Level 2 joined the list of web standards. The new standard updates and replaces the previous High Resolution Time Level Level 1 standard. Level 2 strengthens the reliability and precision of performance monitoring, animations, audio cues, and synchronization between browsing contexts.
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Collecting Performance Data - Jonathan Fielding at HalfStack
Jonathan Fielding, lead engineer at RVU, explained at HalfStack this year how developers may measure and analyze the performance of their sites. Synthetic data and real user metrics give a complementary vision of the site performance.
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Elasticsearch 7.7 Brings Asynchronous Search, Secure Keystore and More
Elastic, the search company, has released Elasticsearch 7.7.0. This release introduces asynchronous search, password protected keystore, performance improvement on time sorted queries, two new aggregates and first release of packaging for ARM(non x86) platform.
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CSS Containment Now a Web Standard
The CSS Working Group recently published the CSS Containment Module Level 1 as a new web standard. This CSS module specifies the contain property, which can be used to indicate elements whose subtree is independent of the rest of the page in some manner. That independence may then be used by user agents to render web pages faster by skipping subtrees.
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Facebook's CSS-in-JS Approach - Frank Yan at React Conf 2019
Frank Yan discussed at React Conf some of the technologies and strategies powering FB5, the new facebook.com, addressing topics such as Facebook’s approach to CSS-in-JS.
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55th Anniversary of Moore's Law
April 2020 marks 55 years since Intel co-founder Gordon Moore published ‘Cramming more components onto integrated circuits’. For over 50 years Intel and its competitors kept making Moore’s law come true, but more recently efforts to push down chip feature size have been hitting trouble with limitations in economics and physics that force us to consider what happens in a post Moore’s law world.